Posted on 07/06/2022 6:10:52 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Once again the NYS Legislature has seen fit to pass sweeping new criminal justice laws that affect the rights of millions of NY citizens, and which impose burdensome new duties on local government officials, without any consultation with the people who will be responsible for carrying out the provisions of those new laws. This has become a habit with the Legislature and has resulted in other criminal justice disasters such as NY’s so-called Bail Reform Law….
The new firearms law language first saw the light of day on a Friday morning and was signed into law Friday afternoon. A parliamentary ruse was used to circumvent the requirement in our Constitution that…the public…must have three days to study and discuss proposed legislation before it can be taken up for a vote. The Legislature’s leadership claimed, and the Governor agreed, that it was a “necessity” to pass the Bill immediately, without waiting the Constitutionally required three days, even though the law would not take effect for two full months. Consequently, law enforcement agencies and the courts, which bear most of the responsibility for implementing the new licensing laws, were deprived of any opportunity to point out to Legislators the burdensome, costly, and unworkable nature of many of the new laws’ provisions. And, of course, our citizens, whose rights are once again being circumscribed, probably again in unconstitutional ways, had no opportunity to communicate their concerns to their legislative representatives…. We do not support punitive licensing requirements that aim only to restrain and punish law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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“We do not support punitive licensing requirements that aim only to restrain and punish law-abiding citizens.”
God love them. The power of the Sherrif is this: he is the last man who can legally stand on your doorstep and stop the feds from coming into your home. His selection and election is more important to you than the prez. Never compromise and pick a lukewarm Sherrif.
If the sheriffs were running the state we’d be in a much better place.
It’s getting to the point that the sheriffs need to start arresting legislators and governors.
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