It's evil to force you buy health insurance, but it's OK to force you to buy a gun?

[riqster]

When the author saw this he got a wee bit hacked off:
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/hypocrisy-in-america-making-people-buy-products-they-dont-want/

Let's call "Bullshit" on this notion, shall we?

[BainsBane]

1. It's insane

is what it is. Fucking nuts.

[shenmue]

2. Well, every time you get shot, you need more health insurance

So it works out great in the end!

[Bay Boy]

3. The main BS here is that

yes it's a real law but no they have never forced anyone to buy a gun in that community. They did it as a knee jerk reaction to a community in IL that banned ownership of guns. More for publicity than anything else. I'm thinking this was about 20 years ago now. So I think you can turn your outrage meter off now. ( I looked back at the post and see it was 31 years ago, time flies)

[riqster]

5. The point is not the law

The point is the hypocrisy of the citizens.

[Bay Boy]

8. The hypocrisy of what citizens?

Those in Kennesaw from 1982 or all US citizens of today?

[Squinch]

6. The law has been on the books for 31 years requiring citizens to buy something. Yet there are

objections to requiring people to buy health insurance. Which is exactly what the OP was saying.

And I don't see outrage here. I see a poster correctly pointing out some rank hypocrisy.

[Bay Boy]

9. I don't understand the 'rank hypocrisy'

The law from 1982 that said all citizens are required to own a weapon in that one town
(but didn't actually make anyone do it)? or something else?

[graham4anything]

4. Bullets and guns are 100% insanity. Period. Time to stop attempting a compromise & ban all

change candidate
change the scotus
change the laws
ban 100% of all guns by private citizens both in and out of the street

more gun deaths/wounded in a few months, than 100% of all collateral drone deaths/wounded in history

[NutmegYankee]

7. Actually the Militia Act of 1792 was used to support the individual mandate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Acts_of_1792

The second Act, passed May 8, 1792, provided for the organization of the state militias. It conscripted every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company. Militia members were to arm themselves with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, 1/4 pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack.[5] Some occupations were exempt, such as congressmen, stagecoach drivers, and ferryboatmen. Otherwise, men were required to report for training twice a year, usually in the Spring and Fall.

This was in effect until the Militia Act of 1903 replaced the state militias with the National Guard.

This act came about because of a devastating defeat in 1791 while attempting to secure the modern day Ohio and the Midwest after the British had ceded the territory following the Revolutionary war. The Army was not well trained and was routed in the great lakes region by a Confederacy of native tribes twice. Since the nation did not have a standing army, it needed a well trained militia to fight for control of territory.