Gun-control advocates have scored victories in states like colorado [sic] and New York since the Newtown, Conn., shooting, but more states have expanded gun rights than restricted them since the December tragedy.The data come from the "Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence" who seem to be a little sad panda-esque about this state of affairs.
I haven't checked the tenor of the editorial page at The Metrocon Daily lately to see how they're feeling about our current national distraction from it's the economy, stupid, but it was all they were talking about on Chris Matthews'* echo chamber this morning. They even did a little homage to the opening montage of Mad Men, showing a cartoon Barack tumbling past screens flashing images of all the great current threats to the republic: Kim Jong Un, high gas prices, Wayne LaPierre...
(h/t to WeaponsMan.)
*...or, as Bobbi calls him, "the Baghdad Bob of the Obama administration."
'sfunny Tam... nationally you hear all about the "successes" in CO and CT... and virtually nothing about AL, WY, et al. Should tell somebody somewhere SOMEthing about how useful, effective, and honest the media is... Why would they cover minor things like how I can't afford heating oil in VT or one my old teammates had to ask me to store his rifles, he lived in NY now is in VA. Propaganda is propaganda is propaganda... love ya lady, keep your chin up.
ReplyDeleteAny excuse to distract from the economy. They'll keep distracting right until it implodes.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how 'real' threats to the US and to us personally like DPRK, economy, actually PAYING for healthcare all seem to be ignored in the MSM, and by the administration...
ReplyDeleteThat's a strange mash-up of commentary there. For example, he says a law passed in Wyoming strengthens gun control, putting Wyoming in the same context as Colorado to the people who look at the pretty map.
ReplyDeleteThe law in Wyoming he classifies as "strengthen gun control" says that a judge may carry in his courtroom but may tell someone else in his court that they can't.
I don't think there's a single gun owner in Colorado who wouldn't prefer that over the crap sandwich they all got served.
Boycott Colorado, New York, Connecticut and Maryland.
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ReplyDeleteI mean, jezus ... if I can't wear my sixguns in to a courtroom, then I guess the second amendment must be null and void here.
ReplyDeletewhat Greybeard said. Three of the five states that "strengthened" gun laws did so by enacting laws that might make Gun Culture v2 a tad grumpy, but would be unlikely to be controversial. (As always, the devil's in the details and I haven't read the laws in question, so YMMV, etc.)
ReplyDeleteETA: Holy crap, Google, could you at least make the "number" photo in the spam catcher in focus?!
Re Wyoming: It isn't INSIDE the Courtroom where the hazard lies, it's after you win your motion and go back outside the courthouse to your car where the law said you have to stash your "sixguns" where you can wind up with an IQ approaching sea-level. Google William Strier, Van Nuys.
ReplyDeleteIf they don't want us packing, let us check 'em in with the man from Wackenhut.
Remember: It can't happen, until it does.
Windy: They actually have lockers for people's holstered CCW guns in the county buildings here in Cheyenne.
ReplyDeleteNow that people have to disarm for court, I'll bet the put in lockers fairly quickly.
( sorry, I was posting with my EvE Online persona again ... )
Kristopher, now that makes sense. They could never do that in sunny People's Republic of Kalifornia, I'd move to Cheyenne except as a life-long Californio 40 degrees is don't-go-outside-it's-freezing- weather, and I doubt that would be popular there.
ReplyDeleteIt helped the gun control cause here that Colorado is currently under one-party rule.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see if the Republicans can preserve that in the next election.
Kristophr:
ReplyDeleteI honestly have no problem disarming in a courthouse (or a private business I chose to enter) where:
1. There is reasonable security to ensure that everyone else not formally responsible for physical security is also disarmed (i.e., metal detector at doorway);
AND
2. Adequate armed security actually responsible for physical security of the area beyond the disarm line;
AND
3. A safe and secure place to lock up my weapon near the disarm point, so I can disarm and rearm while under cover from #2.
If you want to strip me of my ability to reasonably protect myself, I insist you assume responsibility for my reasonable protection.
As I see it: if it isn't important enough to you to actually search everyone visiting to ensure the area being secured is free of unauthorized ordnance, employ armed security who are formally responsible for securing the physical perimeter and provide physical protection for the disarmed visitors, AND provide safe and secure storage for your visitors who you are requiring to disarm, then it apparantly isn't a "sensitive location" in the lexicon of Heller.
After all, if you felt it was truly sensitive, you would secure it with something more substantial than "I pinkie swear I don't have a gun," without arbitrarily forcing your visitors to strip themselves of the natural and Constitutional right not to be left helpless against evildoees.
Geodkyt
Oh, and for everyone concerned about my "private business" inclusion somehow meaning I'm opposed to private property rights:
ReplyDeleteIf you run a licensed business, open to the general public, you give up some of your ability to be Super-Rand. Building codes, antidiscrimination laws, business practice laws (like food safety), etc., all apply to certain levels. Passively exercising a Constitutional right (which is what peacefully carrying a weapon reasonably discretely is) is no different in context from carrying a rosary in your pocket.
Of course, if your business has a dress code, feel free to include visible weapons if you like, just like you can say "No ski masks in the bank" or "No shoes, no shirt - no service". Telling me either I may not (or even that I must), wear a visible weapon in your private business establishment is just a dress code issue, so long as it's "Don't ask, don't tell" concerning my concealed weapon. {chuckle}
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