Posted on 01/31/2011 3:54:34 AM PST by marktwain
In light of the horrific tragedy that occurred this month in Tucson, many people across the nation expected gun restriction debates to catch fire.
Quite unexpectedly in Arizona, however, the opposite has happened. Republicans have continued to surge forward in their Second Amendment rights legislation.
According to The Huffington Post, the Tucson shooting did next to nothing to halt legislation that would continue to make firearms available to the general public.
What is even more surprising is that the GOP is beginning to make moves to allow students at college campuses across the state to legally carry concealed weapons.
Before you begin to grow nervous or hesitant, you have to realize that there are two sides to every issue.
Republicans see many gun laws as a direct violation of every American’s constitutionally inherent rights.
They believe that many laws restricting guns and the purchase of guns are not only unconstitutional, but prevent law-abiding citizens from buying weapons and do little to stop criminals from illegally obtaining firearms.
Republicans in Arizona aren’t alone in their Second Amendment rhetoric. Our state isn’t the first to suggest such a law.
In fact, the state of Utah passed a similar law before the Tucson shooting making it legal for students who have permits to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.
Have you heard about acts of violence, chaos and anarchy taking place across college campuses in Utah?
My guess is that you haven’t, and the reason is because there hasn’t been a tragedy in Utah since the law was passed.
A strong victory thus far that Republicans can adamantly stand behind, the Utah law is as bizarre as it is baffling. Yet it seems as if, at least in Utah, the GOP philosophy has been successful.
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lol, the agony of the clueless liberal
I do not own a pistol, not because I don’t want to, but I refuse to pay $500 in fees and a year of red tape to obtain a permit to exercise a right supposedly guaranteed to me by the Constitution. New York is a communist totalitarian dictatorship.
As I mentioned in another thread a minute ago, I have lived in NY (Rochester area) for 7 years. My 3 legally purchased handguns are living in a secure location in WI, where I moved from in 2003. Getting a pistol permit in NY is ridiculous and unconstitutional.
Republicans see many gun laws as a direct violation of every American’s constitutionally inherent rights".
As does anyone that can read the constitution.
Pro-gun laws are winners when it come election time.
Let’s hope the clueless Pubbies figure this out.
It could happen...I guess.
3.5% seems rather high since
A. It would be unusual that at the age of 18 a student could afford to buy a shotgun which is the only legal firearm they could obtain short of daddy's shotgun which he should/would know the whereabouts of. Sounds pretty unlikely he could keep it hidden in his dorm room without a proctor finding out about it.
2. If they were 21 years old and legal to purchase a handgun same thing, where would they get the money or daddy not know his .44 is missing?
iii. If a student with a drinking problem is "more likely" to own a firearm the stats must exceed most actuarial tables for legal drinking age, legal firearm ownership age, breaking the law having the firearm on campus and representing north of 1.76% of the student body sounds absurd.
Nearly 2 of every 100 students walking around campus are alcoholics packing heat? I call BS!
Quite true, not to mention cold and snowy in the winter. I went to graduate school there, and couldn't wait to leave.
Not to be taken seriously. Ever. Good for laughs, though.
Nonetheless, you can get it without too much trouble. Being in Rochester, you shouldn’t have the problems some other counties have. Do the paperwork, pay the fee, import your guns and exercise your rights to the fullest extent possible.
In NY (outside NYC, which is another country) once you get your permit you’ve got more latitude than you realize. You can go so far as get a Serbu Super Shorty (or other 12ga (!) pistol as I did) and carry it concealed in a bar. Go figure.
Yeah, the limits suck. Work within them, then work to get them removed. Or, of course, move.
Get out of NY BuffaloJack, go somewhere where there are still some sensible people left but the caution is that even here in Texas we have to watch the corrupt b*****ds (state congresscritters) like hawks because they’ll betray you in a heartbeat.
Never trust government nor relax for a second.
In my area, our county thieves are purchasing property (w/o consent of the citizens) and making “parks” that so far, no one (exept county “authorities”) has access to. Taking good land off the tax rolls yet raising our property taxes every year. Texas has some of the highest property taxes in the nation. We’re currently fighting this bunch of county totalitarians.
I have believed the whole time that this was a false-flag operation, achieved by egging on Loughner through the Pima County Sheriffs Office. Arizona is key, I believe, to leftists plans, and they had to reverse the 2nd Amendment trends in AZ. So, they murdered a Republican judge and several others, and injured a Dem who went off the reservation on the gun issue (not far enough for us, but WAY far our to the lefties).
Call me tin-foil or whatever, but I believe Tucson was an engineered event, designed to create momentum for disarmament of citizens, just like RFK's assassination was.
It's the way they get things done.
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