According to the folks over at Deseret News, Utah is considering a bill which would allow the brandishing of firearms in emergency situations.
SALT LAKE CITY — More guns may be making appearances in confrontations across Utah, adding intensity, for better or worse.
Newly proposed legislation would be a green light for concealed-gun owners to openly carry firearms and, if threatened, draw or exhibit their weapons and verbally threaten deadly force.
Depending on whom you ask, that gun-induced intensity could defuse confrontations more quickly, or it could lead to more deadly violence.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, said HB78 clarifies existing law with “affirmative language” that would provide gun owners another option to defend themselves or others around them.
“This allows a gun owner to not have to go all the way and actually fire his gun,” Sandstrom said. “This would still be the very last resort, however. It doesn’t give you the right to just flash a gun at anyone who makes you mad.”
More at: Legislation addresses brandishing of guns
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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: is whining again. This time it is about the people legally “open carrying” weapons in Starbucks stores.
Oh my what shall we do now… legal citizens, carrying legal weapons in a business. I think everyone should buy 2 coffees a day from Starbucks (one for you and one for your gun), to show your support for their refusal to ban guns in the stores.
Brady Campaign whining:
But Starbucks is refusing to prohibit the open carrying of firearms in its stores, despite protests from loyal customers.
Because of Starbucks’ refusal, the Brady Campaign has teamed up with CREDO Action to tell Starbucks to keep guns out of its coffee shops.
The practice of packing heat in places like Starbucks is intimidating and could be potentially dangerous to our families and communities – and it must be stopped.
It’s everyone’s right to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried.
Under the law, Starbucks has the right to adopt a gun-free policy, with an exception for uniformed police officers. Such a policy can easily be implemented in most cases by putting up signs at store entrances.
We need to tell Starbucks to bar guns in its stores. These individuals who have been carrying guns into Starbucks have all the firepower of a SWAT team, and none of the law enforcement training.
More here: Tell Starbucks: Offer Espresso Shots, Not Gunshots.
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Semi-comical, but sadly ironic founding fathers music video.
YouTube – Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration.
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Been busy for the last 9 months, now I have a bit more time to mess with the blog. A lot has happened since my last post, (Stimulus not working, NRA is becoming more powerful, Y Ted K is gone for good, Scott Brown elected, Democrats are on the run).
Anyhow it is good to be back.
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Jimmy Carter… shut up already. This op-ed proves you know nothing of this subject. Go back to your peanut farm!
Carters conjecture on why none of us want to own an assault weapons is quite a leap in logic. It is the equivalent to: “None of us want to eat peanuts, because we don’t want to dig them out of our turds.” This kind of absurdity gets the ignorant masses wound up.
But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. That’s why the White House and Congress must not give up on trying to reinstate a ban on assault weapons, even if it may be politically difficult.
An overwhelming majority of Americans, including me and my hunting companions, believe in the right to own weapons, but surveys show that they also support modest restraints like background checks, mandatory registration and brief waiting periods before purchase.
via Op-Ed Contributor – What Happened to the Ban on Assault Weapons? – NYTimes.com.
