On Wednesday, HB 937, “Amend Various Firearm Laws” which contains; restaurant carry, provisions for guns in locked vehicles on college campuses, carry in assemblies for which admission is charged, and a "cleanup" of parks carry language, passed from the House Judiciary A Subcommittee. It is now calendared for a vote on the House floor on Tuesday, April 30. Attacks by anti-gun leftists, narrowly fended off in the committee, will likely be tried again when the bill hits the floor.
Anti-gun treachery you can
expect
Numerous anti-gun amendments were attempted in committee, principally by Reps. Deborah Ross (D-Wake, 0-star) and Darren Jackson (D-Wake , GRNC 0-star) . Although all anti-gun amendments failed in
committee, they will try again when the bill hits the floor, so here they are:
Protecting rapists instead of
students: Both UNC lobbyist Andrew Moretz and NCSU police
chief Jack Moorman testified to the committee in opposition to allowing
concealed handgun permit-holders to keep guns on college campuses, but
neglected mentioning the high rate of violent crime on those campuses.
In fact,
Moorman apparently prefers to protect rapists rather than students,
since the morning after he testified against self-protection on
campuses, a
student was dragged into bushes and raped outside the "Free Expression
Tunnel." Lest you assume Rep.
Bob Steinburg
(R-Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans,
Tyrrell, ****) supports the bill, he introduced an amendment which would
have undermined the deterrent effect of guns on campus by requiring
guns be
kept in locked compartments within vehicles.
"Poison
pill" amendments to restaurant carry: Although at least 43 states have some type of restaurant
carry (including laws recently passed in Georgia, Arizona,
Tennessee, Virginia, and Ohio) Reps. Ross and Jackson remain committed
to stopping
you from protecting your family in restaurants. If they can't remove it
entirely, they will use "poison pill" amendments to induce the NC
Restaurant & Lodging Assoc., which is currently neutral on the bill,
to oppose it.
In
committee, Jackson first
tried to require restaurants to post signs saying they either allow or
prohibit concealed carry, claiming this would "allow restaurants to
choose" while actually denying restaurant
owners the choice of simply not getting involved in the debate at all by
posting nothing.
When restaurant association representative Frank Gray stated his opposition, the amendment failed. Next, Jackson tried requiring servers to act as cops by asking patrons whether they were "packing," and demanding permit-holders to qualify to law-enforcement marksmanship standards.
When restaurant association representative Frank Gray stated his opposition, the amendment failed. Next, Jackson tried requiring servers to act as cops by asking patrons whether they were "packing," and demanding permit-holders to qualify to law-enforcement marksmanship standards.
"Yellow Star"
Jackson: Reminiscent of
Nazi's use of the yellow star inscribed with "Jude," Jackson then
introduced an amendment to brand permit-holders by requiring their
status to be displayed on drivers' licenses, so that every time you have
to present
an ID, you would be "outted." This amendment also failed. Lies about concealed handgun permit-holders:
North Carolinians "Against Gun Violence" director Gail Neely stood
before the committee to slander
permit-holders, citing long-since discredited claims from "New York
Times" reporter Michael Luo that permit-holders are criminals. But most
telling, Neely
perjured herself to the
committee by regurgitating a study which she claimed dealt with
concealed handgun permit-holders, despite the fact that GRNC President
Paul Valone had
two weeks prior produced a copy of the study for her (and the audience
of an ACLU forum) demonstrating that her claims were clearly
false. Remind legislators: Not only restaurant patrons are disarmed under current law, but also employees. In February, a Charlotte-area Red Lobster employee was shot during an armed robbery, adding yet another to the long list of restaurant victims like Danielle Watson, the Flying Biscuit Cafe manager brutally stabbed to death and left behind a dumpster.
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