On Jan 11, 10:26*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I don't remember reading in the Constitution. Where it gives
any level of government power to force us to buy safety
equipment.

--
Christopher A. Young
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Perhaps you do not know how to read the Constitution nor how to
interpret what is written there and how the Supreme Court of the
United States has interpreted and clarified the document in the
ensuing 223 years since it was written by the founding fathers
and architects of our country...

The fact that you can *buy* anything is at the discretion of
the US Congress which has the sole authority on the regulation
of Commerce in the United States...

Article I, § 8:

-- "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
several states, and with the Indian tribes;"

(Commonly referred to as the "Commerce Clause")

-- "To make rules for the government and regulation of the land
and naval forces;"

-- "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by
this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any
department or officer thereof."

(Commonly referred to as the "Necessary and Proper Clause")

So it is written there, just not in the terms which you seem to
need it to be so that you can clearly understand it I guess...

Unless you are building a log cabin using only locally available
materials (meaning you chopped down the logs yourself) you
are engaging in and benefiting from interstate commerce to
procure your supplies and materials which had to move across
state lines to arrive at the local store from which you purchased
them... THAT gives Congress the power to decide on how those
materials should be sold and used... Or to require any safety
laws it feels are necessary...

It is my opinion that in the next few coming generations of
the National Building Code that automatic fire sprinklers will
soon be a nationwide requirement...

~~ Evan