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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I really like getting up in the morning and seeing the news headlines calling for a new Assualt Weapons Ban to get these evil weapons off the street. Most of these headlines are based on the Oakland Police Shootings (March 2009). While these shootings were tragic and my condolences go to the families; I can not help but wonder what the press is thinking.
One needs to look at this from a logical perspective. Lets say we had a current AWB in place banning the purchase of AK47’s (which I believe is currently the law in CA). This would ban all law-abiding citizens from buying an AK47. Lets look at the case of the gunman Lovelle Mixon.
From the SF Chronicle
Lovelle Mixon was convicted in 2002 of assault with a deadly weapon after an armed robbery in San Francisco, family members said. He served time in San Francisco County Jail and Corcoran State Prison. He had been released on parole in 2007, then was sent back to prison for nine months in 2008 after he had violated his parole. His attorney in the assault case, Lisa DewBerry, declined comment Sunday.
His family said that while he was behind bars, Mixon married his childhood girlfriend, Amara Langston, and worked briefly as a janitor in Hayward once he got out. He was most recently released from prison in November, his family said.
Then, about three weeks ago, Mixon skipped a home visit from his parole officer, his family said. Mixon’s grandmother said he had gotten angry at his parole officer because the agent had missed earlier appointments. Gordon Hinkle, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the family’s assertion that the parole agent had missed a meeting was “highly unlikely,” but added that he is researching the matter. He said the department had issued a no-bail, parole revocation warrant for Mixon’s arrest after he failed to appear for a meeting with his parole officer.
As we can all see Lovelle Mixon was a convicted and jailed FELON. From his history of bouncing in and out of the prison system we can tell he was an upstanding citizen. Being a felon, who could not complete parole, he certainly must have been a good person and would want to abide by any AWB.
Here is a note for the press, the State of California, and the US Congress. This person was a FELON who should not have been in possession of any firearm. Having and AWB in this case would have done absolutly NO GOOD.
Perhaps you should all work on the revolving-door prison system, rather than trying to take away everyones guns.
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From ABC News
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.
In response to both Holder and Obama… “NO NO NO… this is unacceptable.” Call you representatives now in Congress, to make sure we shut this down early.
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