Oregon lawmaker: Remove ban on politicians engaging in duels

[woody06]

The problem is, then they'll burrow like ticks into the unaccountable Deep State Bureaucracy... ever try to make someone you can't fire do something they've decided they don't wanna do, or stop 'em from doing something they've made up their mind TO do?

Unfortunately you're probably right. In many cases the bureaucrats are a bigger problem than the politicians.

 

[Diamondback]

Unfortunately you're probably right. In many cases the bureaucrats are a bigger problem than the politicians.

I grew up among these people as a classmate of their kids, I KNOW how they think.

 

[Certaindeaf]

 

[ageingstudent]

This might present a golden opportunity to clean out the rift raft that has taken over our state government... Being replaced with constitutionalists, who just happen to be good shots...

Strict Constitutionalists please.

 

[ageingstudent]

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Stop it. Lol. No stop.

 

[Diamondback]

When I run for office I am informing ya'll now that I am choosing Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior as my dueling Second.

See your Zinke and raise Mad Dog Mattis, Secretary of OFFENSE.

 

[MrMillspecer]

If you read 7 ,8 and 10 , the duelling is the only one they actually obey. Nice they are able to create more work for themselves on our tax dollars. Crap,crap and more crap.

 

[nammac]

If you read 7 ,8 and 10 , the duelling is the only one they actually obey. Nice they are able to create more work for themselves on our tax dollars. Crap,crap and more crap.

And yet, the same ole cast of characters keep getting re-elected... Go figure...

 

[Crohnos01]

Wow... ok I am sure that what piqued my interest in the article is different from others only in if you read to the bottom of the article, they mention a reference to "W. H. Gray as a member of the provincial legislature"

W.H. Gray is my ancestor. Specifically my great, great grandfather. I knew that he was involved in the city of Pasco and later moved to Astoria, but I didn't know he was in the provincial legislature. He also came West with Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and was a skilled carpenter, helping build the Whitman mission site.

 

[Brutus57]

See your Zinke and raise Mad Dog Mattis, Secretary of OFFENSE.

You do know Zinke is a retired SEAL and probably 15 years younger than Mattis, right? Even though Mattis is from my home state of WA.

Brutus Out

 

[teflon6string]

Hire/elect gunslingers to do our political bidding? Hell, I'd watch.

What's next, actors and game show hosts for POTUS?

Oh wait...

 

[nammac]

Hire/elect gunslingers to do our political bidding? Hell, I'd watch.

What's next, actors and game show hosts for POTUS?

Oh wait...

Hey why not, we have courtroom trials decided by the viewing audience...

We're just this close to Running Man becoming the next big hit on reality TV...

 

[oknow]

Oregon Lawmakers Suggest Repealing the Ban on Gun Duels Between Public Officials

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By Lukas Mikelionis| 6:54 am, April 10, 2017

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• <broken link removed> , the constitutional ban in question refers to Article II, section 9 in the Oregon Constitution. It says that anyone who offers, accepts or knowingly participates in a "challenge to fight a duel … or who shall agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to any office of trust, or profit."
  
  The original article was signed back in 1845, when disputes were still frequently resolved with gun duels. Other parts of the country had outlawed them decades before.
  
  "They decided that it would not be very civil if two members of the Legislature disagreed and then shot each other on the front steps of the provisional capitol," said Republican Sen. Brian Boquist on Wednesday during the committee hearing about repealing the law.
  
  According to the Senator, however, the article should be repealed because it's outdated and unnecessary in modern times.
  
  
• Because the repeal changes the constitution, Oregon voters would have the final say on whether they want to keep the law. Before then, the bill must also go through the Legislature's approval process. If it passes both chambers, it will be referred to voters.
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  Sen. Boquist also testified that the Oregon Constitution could get away with more changes that no longer serve a purpose in modern times.
  
  "I want you to know that most of your stationery is probably in violation of the law because we have a constitutional clause as to how we can use our stationery," he said.
  
  Democratic Sen. Ginny Burdick responded to the bill's possible repeal of a ban on gun duels, saying it's "the bill I've been waiting all session for."
  
  "Well, I'm deeply disappointed that the ambitions for this bill are bigger than dueling, because I was all set to go," she added.
  
  Dan Meek, a Portland attorney and Oregon Progressive Party spokesman, opposed the motion saying it would allow politicians to accept challenges to fight duels and there's no need to repeal such "unenforced" laws as it will only cost money to organize a referendum in Oregon.
  
  "This resolution would allow the candidacies of persons who give or accept challenges to fight duels," Meek wrote to the committee. "Also, there is a cost to removing obviously unenforced and unenforceable provisions in the Oregon Constitution, including the cost of processing and printing this resolution on millions of ballots and processing the results."

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

seriously?

 

[oknow]

There must have been discussions somewhere to have this come up.

 

[WWShooter]

No politician, where ever located, would ever risk his or her person to defend any position they ever took. That requires actual commitment to something other than accumulating wealth while pretending to serve their constituents.

 

[No_Regerts]

With stuff like this, I lose my sense of humor for their inability to get things done.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

 

[best defense]

Oregon Lawmaker Advocates For Removing Ban On Political Duels

Hmmm...

I understand not wanting them to duel each other. Unless they used swords or clubs they might hurt somebody other than their opponent. The members of the Oregon legislature are notoriously liberal and most of them have no idea how to use a firearm. Who knows who they might shoot. It would of course be an entertaining video. If they were armed with single shot dueling pistols, How many reloads do you suppose it would require to draw blood?

 

[caarecengi]

Hell, sounds like it could be fun. Payper view TV could make a killing on it.

I remember that they had a couple of dudes in So Cal paying these homeless dudes to engage in "boxing" matches that were video-ed and then posted on the internet - www.bumfights.com