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<\/a><\/p>\nIn recent days there have been developments on both sides of the gun rights debate.\u00a0 It seems many of the local Sherriff’s Departments in Washington state are refusing to enforce new gun laws.<\/p>\n
A growing number of rural sheriffs in Washington state are refusing to enforce a sweeping new gun initiative that places stiff requirements on residents buying and owning semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a bad law, and I think it violates people\u2019s rights,\u201d Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Yakima Herald-Republic in an interview Monday. \u201cThis law will do nothing to stop crime or do anything to make our communities safer. But what it will do is make criminals out of our honest citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve taken the position that as an elected official, I am not going to enforce that law,\u201d he\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0The Guardian.<\/p>\n
Initiative 1639, a package of gun regulations that was approved by Washington voters in November, raises the age to buy semiautomatic rifles to 21 and requires enhanced background checks, safety training and a 10-day waiting period for semiautomatic rifle purchases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gun rights activists should be encouraged from the news that South Dakota will now become another\u00a0constitutional carry state.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Republican Gov. Kristi Noem\u00a0announced on social media that she will sign a bill allowing South Dakotans to carry concealed guns without a permit into law Thursday.<\/p>\n
Noem’s announcement on Wednesday, Jan. 30, came less than 24 hours after the\u00a0House passed Senate Bill 47\u00a0by a 47-23 vote on Tuesday. It\u00a0passed the Senate\u00a0last week by a 23-11 vote. The governor’s office later announced via news release that Noem will host SB 47’s signing ceremony \u2014 the first bill-signing ceremony of the 2019 legislative session and of Noem’s tenure as governor \u2014 at 12 p.m. Central Time Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On the other side of the coin, we have news about “A well-conceived gun law” in the state of New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The critics are out in force \u2013 they always are \u2013 but for those who understand that the Second Amendment allows for reasonable controls on firearms, the measures approved by the State Legislature on Tuesday are both welcome and sensible.<\/p>\n
Gun crime is endemic and it\u2019s peculiar to this country. In New York, we haven\u2019t had a Columbine or a Sandy Hook or a Marjory Stoneman Douglas, but there\u2019s no reason to think we are somehow immune from that kind of tragedy. Given that Washington won\u2019t decisively move on what is, by any reasonable definition, a crisis, it is up to the states to implement laws that can help to keep their citizens safe. This law does that.<\/p>\n
First, though, it\u2019s important to understand what these laws don\u2019t do. Notwithstanding the alarms of Assemblyman David DiPietro, R-East Aurora, they are not about gun confiscation from mentally sound people. The Second Amendment remains fully in force.<\/p>\n
What the law does allow is for law enforcement, school officials or family members to take court action against people believed to be an \u201cextreme risk.\u201d A judge has to rule. With appropriate controls, it can hardly be controversial to limit the chance that such people \u2013 the kind who commit mass murder \u2013 can come into possession of the tools needed to carry out that bloody deed.<\/p>\n
What is important is how \u201cextreme risk\u201d is defined and what an individual\u2019s rights are to contest the designation. Due process is critical, and it appears to be baked into the law which, for example, requires an annual review. If critics want to argue that the law is too burdensome, they also need to account for the terrible consequences its absence invites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I do not believe that people who endorse these “Red Flag” rules comprehend that the Second Amendment exists to give citizens protection against … them.<\/p>\n
My youngest son was caught smoking at school some 15 years ago.\u00a0 I came home to my compound to find a “summons” to appear in Family Court … signed by the Principal.\u00a0 By 23:00 I had managed to contact every member of the school board and most school administration officials to invite them to a meeting with myself and my attorney.\u00a0 \u00a0I will not be ordered to anything by a High School Principal.\u00a0 After some legal filings and a few off the record meetings, they decided it was best to pay my lawyers bill and watch me paddle my son in front of them.\u00a0 They had been under some strange illusion that I could not do that on school property…they were wrong.<\/p>\n
We live in very dangerous\u00a0times when we empower a High School administrator to take away a citizen’s rights.\u00a0 There have already been a number of shootings by police because citizens refuse to give up their guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n
When I was caught smoking in 8th grade, the Math teacher busted my ass in front of everyone during lunch.\u00a0 \u00a0Mom smacked the s##t out of me when I got home and dad said to leave my cigarettes\u00a0at home from now on or he would cancel my birthdays.<\/p>\n
Now, my grandchildren will have a School Principal that can take my\u00a0guns away by the use of deadly force if they think I am an “extreme risk”.\u00a0 \u00a0I would say as a general rule that if anyone appears at my door threatening my life with deadly force to take anything…at that moment they should most definitely\u00a0consider me an “extreme risk”.<\/p>\n
We already have\u00a0“A well-conceived gun law”.<\/p>\n
It simply states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”<\/p>\n
Infringe \/in?frinj\/ – act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the “shall not be” part they do not understand.<\/p>\n
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