CaseyJones
03-29-2013, 03:24 PM
http://dailyindependent.com/local/x2015911902/Hot-button-issues-key-for-Massie
ASHLAND — Fourth District Congressman Thomas Massie discussed gun control, immigration, the federal budget and other hot-button issues in a town-hall style meeting Thursday at Ashland Community and Technical College.
Massie took questions for an hour before adjourning to talk one on one with attendees.
The question and answer session kicked off with a gun control query, specifically on proposals for requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.
Massie said requiring such checks would close only one of many loopholes that could result in guns reaching the wrong hands, that the only way to close all loopholes would be universal registration, which he opposes.
He called universal registration a precursor to banning guns. “I don’t think the government should have a list of serial numbers and social security numbers,” he said.
He received a couple of questions on immigration reform and said prerequisites for reform include secure borders, removal of welfare incentives and “no reward for breaking the law ... What we have now is complete amnesty.”
However, Massie suggested mass deportations are impossible. “You can’t put 12 million people on a train or in trucks and get them out of the country,” he said.
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ASHLAND — Fourth District Congressman Thomas Massie discussed gun control, immigration, the federal budget and other hot-button issues in a town-hall style meeting Thursday at Ashland Community and Technical College.
Massie took questions for an hour before adjourning to talk one on one with attendees.
The question and answer session kicked off with a gun control query, specifically on proposals for requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.
Massie said requiring such checks would close only one of many loopholes that could result in guns reaching the wrong hands, that the only way to close all loopholes would be universal registration, which he opposes.
He called universal registration a precursor to banning guns. “I don’t think the government should have a list of serial numbers and social security numbers,” he said.
He received a couple of questions on immigration reform and said prerequisites for reform include secure borders, removal of welfare incentives and “no reward for breaking the law ... What we have now is complete amnesty.”
However, Massie suggested mass deportations are impossible. “You can’t put 12 million people on a train or in trucks and get them out of the country,” he said.
more at link ^