Laws in Need of Immediate Passage

 

What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
(Psalm 8:4-5 NIV)

I have heard the arguments why we cannot have national health care (especially now in a troubled economy) and I have heard why we cannot have gun control legislation (especially now when we do not want to make props of grieving parents). Since none of these laws are therefore appropriate or timely, I have concluded that the following legislation is crucial and in need of immediate passage.

1. Be it so resolved: No person who is marginally employed, hovering at poverty level, not covered by any type of health insurance benefit by an employer, or any like situation or condition of certainty or uncertainty; by decree and by law shall not willfully or unwillingly not knowingly or unknowingly become ill or in need of medical treatment. Any violator of this provision shall be considered a felon and the perpetrator immediately subject to imprisonment for not less than 10 years or until they shall have become deceased. Violators shall be removed from public view and awareness. Any violators of this privacy provision shall be imprisoned for an additional 10 years or until they shall have become deceased. Be it understood that there shall be no age limits in enforcement of this law.
2. Be it so resolved: No gun shall be used to harm others—violators being subject to penalty of law. If a gun is so used, the people injured shall be immediately removed from public view and awareness by imprisonment for not less than 10 years or until death whichever shall have occurred first. Be it understood that there are to be no age limits in the enforcement of this law. A ritual of regret shall have been established and applied pro forma and uniformly with appropriate gravity at time of promulgation of sentencing or death whichever shall have occurred first. The worship of God instead of the 2^nd Amendment shall be strictly prohibited.

I think you will agree that these laws are not only logically necessary, but conform to all principles of public compassion as we have come to define them.

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