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Posted on 04/29/2013 11:18:11 AM PDT by neverdem
There is truth in this article. Those who seek to restore the Constitution have been activated as never before. The question is: will it be enough to overcome the power of the MSM and the fanatical Obama administration... but I repeat myself.
Mississippi is open carry 7/1.
The U.S Constitution weighs 1,775 pounds because the Second Amendment is written in lead.
Well said
Whenever I hear this claim, I point out that, as industries go, the small arms industry in the US isn't all that much. The entire industry makes in a typical year about what Apple made last quarter. So it's not industry power that's driving the NRA. In fact, a piece on NPR a few weeks ago seemed to puzzle over the fact that the political position of most of the gun industry is much more moderate than that of the NRA.
What's driving the NRA, I tell my liberal friends and acquaintances, is its individual members. It's a true grassroots organization. The NRA is powerful because it is backed by millions of Americans. Politicians can ignore or misunderstand that at their peril.
Importantly to all conservatives: right now the left is doing something that military tacticians always warn against, called “reinforcing defeat”. It is one of the most important military truisms, that you should *never* reinforce defeat, thinking that you can turn the situation around.
But the left is doing it with gun control. Which means that the time is ripe for conservatives to hit the left, hard, from an unexpected direction, that they are not prepared to defend.
Specifically, the best attack the conservatives can launch right now is to “streamline” the death penalty for violent criminals, by limiting how federal judges can interfere with the process.
Say that, instead of it taking 20 years to execute a horrific mass murderer after sentencing, it should take no more than 5 years. This is a reasonable goal, and one that can be accomplished with just three changes to the federal law.
1) Declare that the individual states are *competent* to carry out a death penalty as they see fit, without interference. They may continue to use lethal injection, or use electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, or even hanging if they choose to do so, without a federal judge being able to intercede because of the means or technique of the execution.
2) Move all federal death penalty appeals to the front of the federal docket, the appeal to be heard within six months; and the defense, prosecution and judge are limited to a single, one month delay each in the course of the appeal, which must be concluded within one year from when it was first made.
3) Limit the ability of federal judges to overturn a state death penalty decision, *or* to issue a “directed acquittal” to the trial court. Instead, if they see a constitutional problem, they can order the original court to reevaluate the case in light of that or those problems. And if the trial court still affirms the sentence, the appeal is over.
In South Dakota, residents with a concealed-carry permit may now carry a pistol while riding a snowmobile; Kentucky has not only removed its six-month-residency requirement for a concealed-carry permit but also instructed state police that they have 30 — not 90 — days to approve applications; Idaho has banned local jurisdictions from refusing to recognize concealed-carry rights; Utah has made it illegal for the state and for local jurisdictions to compel concealed-carry holders to disclose that they are carrying; and Mississippi has clarified the meaning of “concealed,” so that one cannot be prosecuted if a concealed gun becomes temporarily and accidentally visible.
BANG! Ladies & Gentlemen Congratulations!
I think they are understating the case for the reforms to incrementally restore Second Amendment rights. For example, in Mississippi, what was passed was the right to open carry without a permit, not simply a modification of the concealed carry rules:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/concealed-and-open-carry-in-mississippi.html
Good news. But not enough!
This just demonstrates a further polarization of this country. While these states were furthering 2nd Amendment rights, others were severely restricting them.
Thanks for the link.
I'm waiting to see what happens in Colorado next Election Day and in the Supreme Court after their Heller and McDonald decisions.
Related: Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia now allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Bet you that’s one school that won’t get shot up by a lunatic. Or, if it happens, it’ll be a short-lived episode.
Not mentioned in the article was the huge reaction to the PA Eastern Sports show. Not a new law, but reaction was massive and unified against anti-2A forces.
That is a good idea. Federal judges need to be limited in a lot of other areas, too.
The MSM spiked it. Nothing to see. Except, the story got out on the new media. Nowhere near as much coverage, of course, but in the gun culture, it had decent coverage, and people noticed.
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