Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Will Embrace Federal Gun Control Laws

The New American ^ | 03 February 2013 | Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert criticized efforts to oppose federal firearms restrictions and declared that Utah will obey federal gun control laws.

Utah Governor: "Utah Will Adhere to the Law" and Obey Federal Gun Laws


The New American
03 February 2013


As courageous state legislators enlist in the fight to repel the federal government's assault on the Second Amendment, the governor of one western state is telling a liberty-minded state representative to stand down.

Governor Gary Herbert of Utah recently called a pro-gun rights bill sponsored by a Utah state representative "an exaggeration" and encouraged the lawmaker to "adhere to the law."

This is not the level of support citizens of the Beehive State would expect from the man they elected to lead their state.

Herbert was specifically criticizing a measure offered by first-term Representative Brian Greene (R-Pleasant Grove). The bill is titled the State Supremacy Firearms Act.
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[Hieronymus]

Too bad he was just re-elected. Huntsman picked him as a running mate—so perhaps this is not unexpected. Pity.

[vette6387]

So in Utah you have the governor and the sheriff of Salt Lake County on the feds side, and the remaining 28 sheriffs, on the side of the Second Amendment. Ergo, Salt Lake City is just like most other big cities, except that they don’t have the leaders of the Mormon Church hiding under their desks on this issue.

[cotton1706]

That’s fine, as long as they are actually laws, passed by the people’s representatives, assembled. Not the unlawful whims or dictates of a power-grabbing executive.

[dagogo redux]

Tool Herbert knows where political power comes from . . . .

Is he a True Believer, or just a Useful Idiot?

[Auntie Dem]

Add to that list the Marxist Police Chief of Salt Lake City who said recently that he didn’t think it was unconstitutional to ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines and otherwise put limits on guns and ammunition.

We should expect as much from the brain-dead democrats in this country. But I am more than mildly curious how these constitutional scholars completely pass over “...shall not be infringed...” and think that means “We can do anything we want”

[Lancey Howard]

Huntsman picked him as a running mate...

There you go. Just another big government-loving scumbag.

[coloradan]

No, it isn’t fine. What if the people decide to pass laws that order blacks to sit at the back of the bus, or to be hanged whenever found in certain areas of the town? The Constitution is supposed to place some things beyond the reach of local sentiments, or even elections.

[Yellowstone Joe]

You can bet your retirement checks that his political career is over after this term.

[Auntie Dem]

Oh, and one more thing about Herbert. What can you expect from a RINO that wants to spend millions more on education, and talks about the value of it, but he, himself, is a college dropout. Why doesn’t he put HIS money where his mouth is and go back and finish his degree?

If money were the measure of education success the Washington DC schools would be the best in the world!

[Paladin2]

Sounds like a dicktater.

[muawiyah]

And if anybody thought the Mormons doing temple work campaigning for Romney were a minority ~ or that Harry Reid was an anomaly, they have this socialist brigade inside and near the core of Mormonism.

They'll never have a successful presidential candidate until they give it up. That goes or the non-mormons in Utah who go along with the mormons to get along.

[Cboldt]

As Justice Marshall observed in deciding Marbury v. Madison, when two laws are in conflict, the superior one controls; and as between a statute and the constitution, the constitution controls. When the feds pass unconstitutional laws, nobody is bound to follow them, The laws are ultra vires, "beyond the powers" of the entity that issued them.

So, I gather the governor supports unconstitutional laws, provided those laws are passed by the feds and endorsed by the federal court system.

[Fightin Whitey]

“The Constitution is supposed to place some things beyond the reach of local sentiments”

The 10th Amendment SPECIFICALLY places just about everything beyond the reach of federal autocratic sentiments.

[Cboldt]

-- Add to that list the Marxist Police Chief of Salt Lake City who said recently that he didn't think it was unconstitutional to ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines and otherwise put limits on guns and ammunition. --

That's also the current state of federal law, as stated by the DC Circuit. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case. "Heller II."

-- I am more than mildly curious how these constitutional scholars completely pass over "...shall not be infringed..." --

When the moral authority runs out, switch to superior firepower.

[bmwcyle]

The lines are drawing quickly.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Didn’t the Supreme Court recently rule last year that states are not allowed to enforce federal law? Or does that only apply to immigration and not the “good” laws?

[KeyLargo]

I’m not familiar with Utah much.

Is SLC full of and run by libs? And is that how this Rino got into office?

[GenXteacher]

And another name goes in the enemy of America box....

[Kickass Conservative]

Rule number one in the age of Obamunism.

The Government is never “extreme”, the only Extremists are the People that oppose decisions made by the Government.

Cue Hitlery’s speech during the Bush Administration screeching about dissent being Patriotic.