April 30, 1812- Statehood granted
Posted on 05/24/2021 5:29:39 AM PDT by marktwain
HB 596 was passed on 5 May 2021. It is a fairly good Constitutional Carry bill with a 21-year-old age limit and a requirement to reveal to peace officers your condition of being armed.
Voting was 73 to 26 for final passage. From the advocate.com:
A bill that would allow citizens 21 and older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit breezed through the Louisiana House on Wednesday.
The measure, House Bill 596, won approval 72-28 after a short but spirited debate.
It next faces action in the state Senate, which approved a similar bill last week by an equally lopsided margin.
Eight Democrats voted for the bill, with 64 Republicans. 70 votes are needed to override a veto. The eight Democrats voting for the bill were:
One Republican voted against the bill:
Two Republicans and a Democrat were absent and did not vote:
Shortly after the vote on Constitutional Carry, the House voted unanimously for HB 124. HB 124 removed the ban on carrying knives from people who have a concealed carry permit. It passed 94 – 0. It did not make sense for people to have the right to carry pistols, but not knives.
Constitutional Carry is a reasonable approximation of the state of law when the Second Amendment was ratified, in 1791. At that time, no permit was required to carry weapons, openly or concealed.
Governor John Bel Edwards has promised he would veto
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Pray for a Veto override !
” It did not make sense for people to have the right to carry pistols, but not knives.”
Common sense usually doesn’t affect legislators.
Yes, but I think they already have a veto proof majority.
I may be wrong, if it’s a 3/4 rule they are 2 votes short. The one already passed last week did have a veto proof majority I think.
Edwards must want to be a one term wonder....
Has Kenner gone RINO? I know the Dems escaping the hellhole of Orleans they’ve created for themselves have moved to Kenner and Jefferson but certainly Kenner can get a harder rightwinger in.
Edwards won reelection against a greenhorn Trump supporter... barely.
Rispone wasn’t my first choice because I knew he was t polished enough to hammer Edwards on his weaknesses and unfortunately that’s what happened. Edwards has the media on his side, so Rispone kept everything to catchphrases and messaging and Edwards was able to lie his way out of it.
It looks like they have the votes to override his veto.
But votes often change when the are for a veto override.
A famous vote change happened in Wisconsin, when Democrat Governor Jim Doyle needed one vote change to keep his veto of a shall issue concealed carry bill.
A Republican changed their vote, then was appointed to a judgeship.
Ididn’t know he was doing a 2nd term. I haven’t kept up with louisiana goings on since I left there and moved back to Texas just before Edwards was electe the 1st time. Jindal was still in office, but the next elexctions hadn’t been held yet when I left.
Ionly knew about Edwars at all because Idid some checking to dig into the new taxes he’s been allowing. When I moved back here, gas in shreveport was 20 cents a gallon cheaper than it was here. Now it runs 6 to 29 cents more.
For several years whenever I came here for a weekend (lived in northeast Louisiana for 10 years) I would fill up in shreveport on the way, then again in Shreveport when I got back, because of the increase in gas prices once I crossed into texas, and it’s again 20 cents more once I get into this area.
I went to a pull it yourself car parts junkyard in Shreveport to get some parts, thought I would fill up there, and was seriously disappointed to find out I had to pay more for gas.
I did some poking around. It seems Edwards has hit Louisiana with the greatest tax hike in the history of the state, according to articles I read. I already knew they had a new tobacco tax, democrats passed that one immediately and he signed it. The same democrats tried and Jindal blocked it twice...Edwards signed the one that implemented the higher tax of the two, $1.40 per pack.
But I didn’t know he had already been elected to a 2nd term, Ihaven’tkept up with their politics in 10 years. Jindal wasn’t great, but he didn’t allow boatloads of new taxes...And according toeh same articles, Louisiana a little over a year ago, just before the kung flu, also had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country too.
Funny how that happens, taxes go up, so do unemployment rates...seems democrats just might wonder about that...naaahh
Yikes!
My proofreading really sucked that time...
My father’s family has been in Louisiana for 100 years. My mother’s family has been here since before it was a state. Edwards’ has them both seriously considering moving, along with my sibling, to Florida’s panhandle. They’re disgusted with spending their retirement in a state poorly run with such high taxes.
If they leave, that’s over half the reason why I’m here. With no immediate family on my side, the only other family is my wife’s. She for decades has wanted to move to TN or some other southern Appalachian state.
They might as well pass it because everyone I know over there carries regardless; permit or no permit, especially women. Those that have a permit mainly do so for reprocity travel thru other states honoring it.
There was a statistic that I saw somewhere that showed, per capita, Louisiana has the highest gun ownership of any state.
Mix that with all those Cajuns and Red Bones over there, and it really isn’t the place to start some stupid shite.
Similar here. My family is from Louisiana all the way back to at least my great grandparents. My grandmother was also half native american, Ouachita I think but maybe Cherokee. Her family was from Louisiana for at least a couple of generations. The grandparents were married just as the depression hit, my father was born in 1931 in northeast Louisiana 20 miles north of Monroe.
I’ve never done any geneaology (SP?) but we’re all Louisiana folks for at least 100 years, probably more like 150 plus. My grandparents were born around 1900, great grandparents were all north Louisiana natives, that makes it close to 150 years. Not sure how far back in the family it goes beyond that.
My grandparents lived in the same small town their entire lives, rarely went more than 20 miles from town. My father moved back there in the late 70’s. Don’t think many are left, one of my nieces and a cousin or two is it. My father’s two living brothers and a sister moved to colorado 30 years ago or more.
I left in 2012, came back to east Texas. No intention of going back. I have no interest in living in the same conditions you mentioned, high taxes and poorly run. Just from what little I’ve seen the past 5 years, I have no interest in even visiting, except maybe a once or twice yearly or so trip to a casino in Shreveport, if I bother to do even that, haven’t been in 7 or 8 years. I’ve gone to the U-Pull It yard twice in the past 4 years or so, that’s it.
It sucks, the state was also what I tentatively called home for 50 years too. Now I tell people I’m a Texan...been here most of the past 45 years anyway, and don’t miss Louisiana one bit.
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