Posted on 03/02/2011 4:08:08 AM PST by marktwain
The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control. Despite their best efforts to take advantage of the tragic shooting in Arizona to promote pointless restrictions on things like the size of handgun magazines, the propaganda campaign is unlikely to go anywhere. Instead, the right to keep and bear arms continues to gain steam as state lawmakers around the country are enacting measures that would have been unthinkable not so long ago.
On Monday, Wyoming lawmakers sent Gov. Matt Read a “castle doctrine” bill that recognizes the right of residents to use a gun to protect themselves from home invasion or carjacking without fear of civil or criminal prosecution. A spokesman for Mr. Read said the governor would review the proposal today, along with a second bill granting residents the ability to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The lawmakers also proposed a constitutional amendment recognizing the perpetual right to hunt, fish and trap.
No less should be expected from a place calling itself “The Cowboy State,” but even swing states are open to the idea of ditching obsolete relics of an anti-gun past. A Pennsylvania Senate committee held a hearing yesterday on a castle doctrine bill. The General Assembly has adopted similar legislation in the past only to be thwarted by the veto pen of then-Gov. Ed Rendell. Voters have since replaced the Democratic party chieftain with Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who promised, “I would sign it” during the campaign.
The North Carolina Senate passed its own castle doctrine bill Monday. In Arizona, where laws are already gun-friendly, the House last week endorsed a proposal that would prevent overzealous homeowners associations from denying residents their constitutionally protected right to own firearms. The legislature’s Democratic and Republican caucuses likewise support a Senate bill that would prevent university administrators
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how long before some A$$hole judge overturns it!
That would be pretty hard to do. The Castle Doctrine is not a mandate on individual behavior but a restriction on prosecutors.
Twenty years ago
This would be impossible.
My how things have changed!
Of course, it is still impossible. Nobody every permanently loses anything. We have the advantage today, but you never can tell what tomorrow will bring. That is why we must sieze the advantage today to codify as much as we can into law.
And, by the way...
If you can read this
(To paraphrase the old line)
Thank a TAXPAYER!
No, I would say that for now, we're winning back some of the earlier losses. However, the debate, argument, and struggle will never be over. As long as some of us want to be free and responsible for our own actions, there will always be those that want to control us and strip us of any and every liberty.
As I was explaining to my oldest the other day. The left often tries to use logic to twist the argument. Do I need to have X? (where X could be a particular kind or style of firearm, ammunition, magazine capacity, etc.) No. Do I need to even have the ability to obtain X? No, I'm unlikely to ever want/need/use X. The left would try to end the argument right there. However, I absolutely must, to live free, not live in a society where the government bans X. That is the deeper, far more important issue. It is not what we want or need in tangible terms, it is what we cannot allow the government to start controlling. The government, and those that would control us, represent an insatiable beast that must be fought back at every opportunity. That is why I fight for the right to have X, even if I have no intention of ever owning/using an X.
Not accurate. It is true that they have lost the argument and the arguments to all their agenda. However,the Left never relents in their assault and the Left doesn't operate in the realm of the truth.The Left operates on lies.The truth and the Left are as far apart as te East is from the West.
Someone who is in a position to know has told me that internal Democrat Party strategy discussions about 2012 all revolve around keeping a narrow focus on economic issues and pointing the finger at Wall Street and the Banks for class-war revenge (the “Two Americas” garbage). The same advisors are telling them to stay far, far away from issues like Gun Control, Gay Marriage, Affirmative Action and Amnesty.
Fortunately I don’t think that party has the discipline to stick with such a regimen.
They had hoped to curtail the 1st and 2nd amendments with the Tucson crisis, but they could restrain themselves in show everyone that is they who are the truly uncivil A-holes.
At one point The Obama-ramma was supposed to read off a speech from the TOTUS on gun control – presumably when another of these cluster tragedies took place, but that didn’t happen.
Therefore, they will continue to lie in wait for another opportunity to take away our self-defense rights – make no mistake about that.
Finally, please do not have any illusions that if the Obama-Lama-Ding-dong is able to get another Supreme on the court, that they won’t destroy that right once and for all.
You can bank on that, it’s only a matter of time.
This guy has updated that animated gif map of Right to Carry states... it can bring a tear to your eye,
http://www.gun-nuttery.com/rtc.php
Progress in Right-to-Carry
Over the last 20 years, gun owners have made significant progress in having their right to carry firearms for their own defense.
You’ve all seen the NRA’s map, but it gives little sense of the progress we’ve made.
I’ve pulled together what information I could find, and combined it in an animated map, so we could see at a glance how things have changed from year to year.
Excellent Graphic... passed on to my personal network.
Fortunately I don’t think that party has the discipline to stick with such a regimen.
When they don't, they lose. They moved to the center on a number of social issues and fiscal disciple to take control of Congress in 2006 and expand their majorities in 2008 in their recruiting of candidates. We're going to expand our majority in the House from from reapportionment and redistricting from the Census. They are defending twenty three seats in the Senate in 2012. Four are open; Webb in VA, Bingaman in NM, Conrad in ND and Lieberman in CT are retiring, IIRC.
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