Posted on 04/03/2024 4:04:22 AM PDT by marktwain
On March 22, 2024, Governor Mark Gordon vetoed Wyoming House Bill 125 ( House Enrolled Act 49), which would have eliminated many of the gun free zones which exist in Wyoming.
Governor Gordon (R), in his veto letter to the Wyoming Secretary of State, said: “The bill exceeds the separation of powers embodied in Article 2 of our Wyoming Constitution. I must, therefore, veto it.”
HB 125 passed with veto-proof margins in both the House and Senate. In the House, the vote was 57-7-1. In the Senate the vote was 22-8-1. Wyoming requires a 2/3 vote of both chambers of the legislature to override a veto. However, House Bill 125 was passed on the last day of the legislative session, on March 8. The legislature has adjourned. Thus, the legislature cannot vote to override the veto because the legislature is not in session.
Governor Gordon, in the veto letter, indicated the idea of reducing the number of gun free zones in Wyoming should be left to local governments, school districts, community colleges and the University to consider at the local level.
Governor Matthew Hansen Mead (R) vetoed a similar bill in 2017, seven years ago.
Analysis: Powerful lobbies in the State of Wyoming have been opposed to this bill. They include the University lobby, the local government lobby, and the school/teachers lobby. The bill reduces the power of each of the three government lobbies: the government University, the local governments, and the government schools. The exercise of Second Amendment rights was historically curtailed in local governmental buildings while local governmental meetings were being held or when voting on election day. The government did not ban the exercise of the right to bear arms in local schools or universities when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791.
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Looks like the legislature has the numbers to override.
This is a tough one because it’s good for local government to control their turf, but then the lefties come in and muck the place up with crazy laws and corrupt officials.
Three powerful lobbies, each one made up of government parasites.
Local governments can easily become local tyrannies. It is why it is important for the Bill of Rights to apply to local governments.
Wait... you sound like you’ve given the governor’s insulting claim some credit... that the State can’t protect its citizen’s liberties from the power of local governments? Nope! The only time in the history of America, in the history of how many millions of acts compelling behavior that a governor says, “Well, maybe the State should cede authority to local governments” is when local governments strip their citizens of liberty. Bull.
“Local governments can easily become local tyrannies”
School boards across the country are great example of this too.
Amazing how deep the stupidity runs as to the futility of “gun free zones”. A sign on a post or a door etc. alone announcing a “gun free zone” is nothing more than an invitation for a maniac to kill more effectively.
Why is Gordon sucking up to Cheney?????????????
Politically safe and effective. The representatives needs to be called out on this one. This was by design.
Notice how these politicians can put on their “Constitutional Scholar Hats” whenever they need to or punt it to the courts whenever that gets them their preferred outcome.
And the pussy governor folded like a K mart suit.
Gordon is not a really a conservative-and unfortunately other than a few exceptions WY doesn’t tend to elect a lot of really conservative leaders but more what have been called moderate/traditional democrats a few decades ago
In some ways conservative ideals prevail but when you have a state where a large portion of the economy relies on state and federal grant money being shuffled around you get politicians who can do favors more so than ones who will do what is right
“Local governments can easily become tyrannies.”
Chicago suburbs loaded with them. Scum like some HOA boards.
you do know that the chamber of commerce is against constitutional carry and supports gun free zones....
Just so you know the bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts real stance on this issue
“Local governments can easily become local tyrannies.”
The first time I read it, I thought it said, “Trannies” and I was thinking does it ever stop?
hree of the most powerful lobbies in the state combined efforts to kill this bill.
The teachers union out moneyed them got to know where the real power is.
Kickback for votes is the number one prize on the table.
It's no longer representative government for the people, it's for the money.
More RINO BS from the rockies.
>Gordon is not a really a conservative
Incorrect, he’s QUITE ‘conservative’. He’s “conserving” the status quo.
Hence why, like Capitalist, the ‘conservative’ moniker is absolute garbage. And, yet, the Right wear it like a badge of honor *hands head*
What one gets voting in ‘conservates/Republicans’ over Constitutionalists (like ‘Free Markets’, it is...or is NOT. There’s no middle.)
The Rights LOVE to utilize the Lefty lingo & thus concede the debate from word one.
Yes it’s a big club and were not in it you have to be connected to be in it.
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