Posted on 03/09/2024 3:48:00 AM PST by CFW
Now that South Carolina has officially become the 29th state to adopt Constitutional Carry (and the 28th to have the law formally take effect, since Louisiana's new statute doesn't kick in until July 4th), the state's few pro-gun control voices are ramping up their fearmongering. Everytown for Gun Safety's South Carolina chapter is already predicting the new law will lead to more violence and less safety, while the state's most politically powerful sheriff says he's turning to the Almighty to protect the state from Constitutional Carry's effects.
"Law enforcement agencies in South Carolina are bracing for what could happen as permitless carry of handguns becomes more widespread in the coming weeks, with one sheriff already fearing the worst.
“I just said a prayer last night that I hope my greatest fears don’t come true, and that’s that South Carolina becomes the Wild, Wild West,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told The Post and Courier.
Lott’s comments came as Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law March 7 granting state residents the right to have handguns in most public places."
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
I remember reading that many of the old Wild West towns actually had less crime and murders than Eastern cities in the same era.
Richland County SC...2020 presidential voting results...
Biden...68%
Trump...30%
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott...Democrat.
This guy doesn’t pray to any god.
Democrat in state capital county
” South Carolina has officially become the 29th state to adopt Constitutional Carry”
YES!
Will my state of NY be next? /S
The Peacemaker tamed the west.
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If every potential victim carried, potential perps would make less trouble.
He sounds like a typical South Carolina Republican. Liberal and a pearl clutching granny. Does he not think people are not already carrying? Is he that stupid.
...because gang bangers and criminals would never think of carrying without a permit before this law...
Leftists never let something so minor as being repeatedly wrong on a issue stop them from repeating the same old lies. It’s a unconscious psychological mechanism where people accuse others of harboring feelings that they cannot deal with consciously. They see themselves armed with a gun and imagine that they cannot control their urges, and project those feelings onto others.
Bump
Me too, I live out here on the prairie in central Kansas where pretty much everyone carries a firearm on themselves or at the very least in their pickup. We don’t really seem to have any problems out here.
But letting, inviting, transporting illegals in won’t or has it already?
Interesting. I think it says more about him than the citizens of the state.
The sheriff is just worried that crime will go down and his budget will get cut.
well well well he is a demonrat.
Yes, I'm well aware. I'm a New Hampshire resident.
I see I should have used my "Sarcasm" tag. :D
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