2nd Amendment - OSHA out for your guns

From: Dudley Brown Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009

The dog days of summer are in full swing, and many conservatives are focused on the ongoing debate over Obama's plan for socialized health care.

But lost amid the summer white noise are two more serious dangers to gun rights.

Another anti-gun Obama nominee?

David Michaels, freshly nominated to be the next administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), believes guns should be treated like asbestos and banned in the name of the "public good."

Luke has posted some of Mr. Michael's more shocking comments on the National Association for Gun Rights Blog.

Read below or Click here to read about David Michaels, and join the discussion on his anti-gun views.

Hoplophobia is contagious

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is so offended by the peaceful political free speech of gun rights activists at Obama town hall meetings that she wants to ban all guns around the President.

Next on Norton's list of "expiring" Constitutional rights?

Due process.

Read below or You can read the details in all their free-speech-hating glory on the blog here.

In Liberty, Dudley Brown, Executive Director, National Association for Gun Rights

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OSHA nominee has strong anti-gun views

It should come as no surprise that President Barack Obama has appointed another anti-gunner to his cabinet. 

Anti-gunner David Michaels has been nominated to be an under secretary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

In an opinion piece from 2007, Mr. Michaels' expresses his views on firearms:

In the U.S., we see an average of one gun-related homicide every 45 minutes, or 32 each day.* These are usually treated as isolated incidents, until a horrific event like the Virginia Tech massacre reawakens the public and strengthens public health advocates who are attempting to prevent gun violence.

That's what has just happened in Georgia. There, legislation that would allow employees to keep guns in workplace parking lots went down to an unpredicted defeat….

Thankfully, the NRA's legislation failed. The Florida legislature also voted down a similar bill this week. Given this week's events, the results weren't surprising. When the toll of preventable and pointless deaths or injuries from any single event or related events becomes so great, or particular aspects of the story bring it to the public's attention, our nation invariably demands more and stronger regulation, not less.

Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com believes these views could have a profound effect on the bureaucracy of existing gun laws.

That's by no means irrelevant to the agenda of an agency like OSHA, because once you start viewing private gun ownership as a public health menace, it begins to seem logical to use the powers of government to urge or even require employers to forbid workers from possessing guns on company premises, up to and including parking lots, ostensibly for the protection of co-workers. In addition, OSHA has authority to regulate the working conditions of various job categories associated with firearms use (security guards, hunting guides, etc.) and could in that capacity do much to bring grief to Second Amendment values. [Emphasis added]

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