Blair Holt – we don’t know what he wanted, other than to save others
The 45th legislation introduced into the House of Representatives is H.R.45, by Bobby Rush of Illinois:
Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.
The bill states that because guns are usually sold across state lines that the Congress has a right to license and record their sale. “And for other purposes”… what ever that means.
Since it has no other sponsors I believe this bill is not likely to proceed. But who knows, given the crass nature of the Stimulus Bill, and the likelihood of an attempt to control free speech via a revised “Fairness” Act, I suppose there isn’t a limit to what some in Congress think the Commerce Clause of the Constitution lets them do.
There is a lot to bug me in this bill but what actually bothers the most is how Rush, a craven and corrupt Illinois politician (is there any other kind?), hides behind the valor of young Blair Holt, a young man who shielded others with his body as another teenager boarded his bus with a gun shooting.
Nobody can ask Blair Holt if he wished he’d or another person on the bus had had a gun to defend all of them with. Nobody can ask if he wants his sacrifice used this way.
But then again, politicians like Bobby Rush aren’t in the “asking” game. They take and take, and not just money. Sacrifice, apparently, is fair game as well.
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/blair-holt/ has other takes on this, most more oriented at the bill itself.
H/T: Mom