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January 9, 2012 · By Newswire · 0 Comments
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January 9, 2012
Contact: Zach Lautenschlager
Pierre, SD – State Representative Don Kopp (R-Rapid City) has filed HB 1015, the South Dakota “Constitutional Carry Bill” of 2012.
Backed by South Dakota Gun Owners and their 4,000 members and supporters, this Right-to-Carry legislation mirrors current law in Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming.
“This common-sense bill provides safety for South Dakota families and matches the clear intent of the Second Amendment,” said Rep. Don Kopp.
The bill has also won strong support from the National Association for Gun Rights. With nearly 1 million members and supporters nationwide, the National Association for Gun Rights played a key role in passing Constitutional Carry last year in Wyoming. The legislation became law there in July of 2011.
The “Constitutional Carry Bill” removes the penalty for carrying a concealed handgun without a permit. It eliminates intrusive, government mandated background-checks for law-abiding citizens and does away with the tax or “fee” and the waiting period currently required to obtain the permit.
However, the bill does leave the pistol permit system in place for those who want a permit for concealed carry reciprocity in other states.
“Law-abiding people shouldn’t be forced to get a government permit before they can exercise their right to self-defense,” said Zach Lautenschlager, Senior Analyst for South Dakota Gun Owners.
“Criminals don’t stop to get a permit before they commit a crime with a handgun,” Lautenschlager said. “The pistol permit requirement has yet to prevent a crime, but it does keep some law-abiding people from defending themselves.”
Currently, a woman who lawfully defends herself with a handgun in her purse or her car, but who does not have a pistol permit, faces 1 year in jail and a $2000 fine.
“South Dakota should not be making self-defense a crime,” Kopp said.
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This is a very interesting and telling interview from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) of IRS Commissioner Steven Miller over the Obama Administration scandal involving IRS harassment of Tea Party and other conservative groups. I don't know why Kelly isn't trying to extend an olive branch. Why isn't he trying to find common ground? Why isn't he trying to persuade this guy to see things his way? Why is he being so mean?
The front: homosexual marriage. The end: schoolchildren. This week, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (labeled one of America’s worst senators by TIME) signed homosexual marriage legislation into un-law after the un-lawful House and Senate approved it. In concert these branches of the Minnesota government have proven themselves to be in defiance against the laws of Nature and Nature’s God, as found in the Declaration of Independence.
Sarah Hall Ingram, the woman in charge of the IRS during it's high period of harassment of Tea Party and other conservative groups, is now going to be running ObamaCare. Joseph Grant, the IRS commissioner who became the fall guy for the Obama Administration in this scandal, is just a patsy. He was going to be done with the job in less than a month anyway, and he wasn't in charge during the time when the IRS was busy muzzling Tea Party groups.
“We were simply doing what our bosses ordered.” So say the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees in Cincinnati who were charged with targeting tea party and other conservative groups with improper and invasive scrutiny, according a Fox19 in Cincinnati exclusive report on May 15. If true, this seemingly contradicts a Treasury Inspector General report on the matter released earlier that day.
Hillary Clinton has successfully regained popularity (and a following) after doing or saying something totally stupid -- like the "under sniper-fire lie" during the campaign. However, I'm betting it is not going to be so easy for Obama and his friends to come out of the present scandals that, among many things, involve lies told to the American people.
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