Posted on 04/27/2014 3:04:25 PM PDT by marktwain
Governor Brewer has been considered a friend of second amendment supporters. When she was under threat of reelection, she signed constitutional carry into law. Under her watch, Arizona has taken the lead as the most advanced state in the union when scored on restoring second amendment rights.
Other states are striving to catch up. Kansas passed a bill to make sure that public buildings would only ban people carrying guns if they effectively did so for legally armed citizens and criminals alike. Indiana passed a law ending their "roaming school zones", where legally armed citizens could be turned into felons by the movement of school children. Wisconsin allowed their citizens to buy long guns in other states, and passed a strong range protection bill. Michigan did away with their absurd ban on short barreled rifles. Idaho passed a mild "guns on campus" reform and a ban on assisting federal gun confiscations. Utah passed a measure declaring that open carry of guns is not disorderly conduct.
Just this week, Georgia Governor Deal signed into law a long list of long awaited gun law reforms. Kansas Governor Brownback signed a package at least as significant, if not even more far reaching. And Governor Brewer vetoed the third of six self defense reforms that have come to her desk in the last week.
Governor Brewer vetoed a bill nearly the same as Kansas passed last year, to insure that citizens are not disarmed in public buildings, while those who ignore the law can walk in without effective hindrance. She vetoed a bill to put teeth in the states preemption statute, such as Florida found necessary. And yesterday, she vetoed a bill that made it clear that if someone was violently attempting to disarm you, you could treat them as a deadly threat.
The bill, HB 2338, would have given the same protections to legally armed citizens who are not police officers as it does to police officers, by making illegal attempts to disarm them an aggravated assault.
From the current list of actions that constitute aggravated assault:
From the proposed bill, HB 2338:9. If the person knowingly takes or attempts to exercise control over any of the following:(a) A peace officer's or other officer's firearm and the person knows or has reason to know that the victim is a peace officer or other officer employed by one of the agencies listed in paragraph 10, subdivision (a), item (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of this subsection and is engaged in the execution of any official duties.
(d) A person's firearm, with the intent to cause harm with that firearm, that is lawfully possessed by the person in accordance with federal and state law. This subdivision does not apply to a peace officer who takes or attempts to exercise control over a person's firearm while the officer is engaged in the execution of any official duties or to a person who is justified in using physical force or deadly physical force pursuant to chapter 4 of this title.Governor Brewer is not running for reelection as Governor.
I’m trying to make sense of this poorly written story. The bills she vetoed did or did not take away Second Amendment rights?
Makes one wonder what they found out about ol’ Jan.
> Governor Brewer is not running for reelection as Governor.
So, when is she announcing her candidacy for POTUS?
Thanks marktwain.
She may have her eye on a Senate seat IF McCain retires but I doubt it. Between embracing Obamacare and vetoing three pro second amendment bills she's pretty discredited among local party regulars.
More likely she is angling for some establishment Republican non-profit or maybe the board of a lobbying organization - her husband is a chiropractor. I mean what does a Glendale Community College dropout and discredited conservative do after politics.
<< Jan Brewer has done some good things, when she was up for reelection... >>
Correction. She did some good things after she was appointed governor when Jane Napolitano left and Brewer was up for her first election.
After that, she vetoed any significant pro-rights gun bill that managed to make it to her desk and only signed the soft-ball bills.
Maybe she can get a job on the board of a state University? She seems to have caved to their interests fairly regularly.
Then again, I would not be surprised if they renege. I can just hear it, “Well, Jan, things just did not work out like I thought they would.”
Arizona voters should elect a Republican governor so that they can get these bills signed into law. Oh wait . . .
In all fairness, moss does not grow on the AZ legislature. However, that being said, sometimes Brewer vetoes because there are obvious problems with a law; and other times, because she doesn’t like a law.
There was some hypocrisy in a recent gun law veto. When she vetoed it before, she gave a reason why. So the legislature rewrote it to exclude what troubled her. But she vetoed it again but for a different reason. That is not being honest.
Importantly, she also vetoed a law that would expand those violent criminals eligible for the death penalty. But she passed something like 85 laws this session.
In any event, she is being term limited out, and hopefully the next governor is going to be far more conservative.
She wouldn’t have to veto three good gun bills to do any of that. She’s been swishy on illegals as well — these things point to national aspirations, and that would fit with a Senate run. JM is going to run for reelection I believe there’s a topic about his fundraising.
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