Weer'd World

I like this bill, but I don’t necessarily agree with their methods:

By superseding federal regulations, House Bill 436 would make it a criminal offense to enforce background checks or to publish the name and address of a gun owner in the state.

It would also technically allow citizens to own a machine gun, which is banned under federal regulations, according to the governor’s office. It also would nullify federal gun laws and would allow citizens to take legal action against officers who try to enforce them.

Very interesting, but what’s most interesting is this:

After a heated debate, the state’s House of Representatives voted 109-49 on Wednesday to override the governor’s veto of House Bill 436, a measure that would essentially nullify federal gun laws in Missouri.

This bill is pretty darn radical, yet Missouri has passed it, and with a wide enough margin to sidestep the Governor’s veto. I doubt it’ll hold up in court as the law is directly opposed to a number of federal laws, and further if Missouri police and ATF agents get into a firefight over this law both sides will technically be right.

I was discussing this with Mrs. Weer’d (who earns the H/T for finding this story for me) in how this is similar to the US Civil War/ War of Northern Aggression. I refer to the conflict like that because both terms are correct. The Confederate States of America had their own land, their own government, and their own currency…just the United States of America refused to recognize any of that, and technically still controlled 100% of what was The Confederate States of America.

I’m really just amazed that this law is THAT popular. Things are really bad for gun control types in America right now.

Kinda Odd that there was such a big and historic event in Colorado and the anti-rights forces, and the media (but I repeat myself) have been so silent.

Joan HAS made a VERY minor note in her twitter that indeed they lost hard. Still directly after the recall was conceded by the villains she tweeted about this law in Newtown:

The Legislative Council of Newtown, Conn., unanimously approved a new firearms ordinance that sets limits on recreational shooting, nine months after the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The ordinance details that residents have four hours for shooting after notifying police and said shooting is limited to one person at a time. Target backstops will be required and must be 10 feet above the target, with set distances to neighboring properties. No shooting will be allowed within a half-mile of any school during a school day.

We can talk more about this law later, but it only effects the city of Newtown, and its obviously an anti-gun snit that wouldn’t pass muster anyplace else, and will likely be repealed. This is the most minor victory to distract from a CRUSHING defeat.

The only anti-rights group to talk about it is Moms Demand Action:

The gun lobby may have won this local battle, but they will not win the national war.

True, that’s why we’re still fighting!

From the outset, this recall was designed as a tool of intimidation funded by the gun lobby. What a ridiculous temper tantrum by a bunch of bullies – moms know them when we see them.

Umm, these are state Political Representatives who were not…um….REPRESENTING their constituents, so their constituents fired their asses. This is no more the behavior of a bully as a supervisor firing an employee who has refused to perform their duties. They made their beds and now they lie in them.

Fortunately, the recalls do not impact the new gun laws signed into law earlier this year by Gov. Hickenlooper. The Colorado state legislature did the right thing by passing common-sense gun laws, requiring background checks for all gun buyers and limiting magazines to 15 rounds. This recall doesn’t change those laws – laws that will continue to protect Colorado families from senseless gun violence.

Laughable! First these laws do NOTHING to protect ANYBODY and we know it. Still the funny bit is them attempting to stay resolute in the face of defeat. Hickenlooper is going to have a nightmare keeping his job next year, and the new Republicans will be pushing hard and fast to repeal this horrible law, and I suspect they’ll get it.

Still one must admire their Quixotic stance on the defeat!

Hilarious!

You go right ahead! Fight or don’t fight, the results will be the same. You out-spent the NRA and GOP spending on this recall election and you made it insanely hard to vote by removing absentee ballots, and challenged the very recall laws in court, and you still lost.

What else you got? Come at me, bro!!!

Your actions yesterday have helped more than just your district, and more than just your state. You helped the entire nation yesterday!

Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs and Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo lost their jobs as lawmakers in an election seen as a national measure of popular support for gun legislation. They were replaced by two gun-rights Republicans.

Angered by new limits on ammunition magazines and expanded background checks, gun rights activists filed enough voter signatures for the recall elections — the first for state legislators since Colorado adopted the procedure in 1912. The recalls prevailed despite some $3 million in contributions for the incumbents.

The big news is that those $3 Million were mostly from Michael Bloomberg personally to install New York-Style politicians in Colorado. This isn’t Colorado-Centric, this was just the first attack, and it failed badly, as this was the first time Coloradans have felt the need to issue a recall, and not surprising, considering that, it was successful.

On the bi-partisan side, I’ll note that the RNC encountered the same issue with Scott Brown. They attempted to install a Republican in ultra-“Progressive” Massachusetts, and I won’t lie, he fooled me. Turned out Brown was just as leftist as Mitt Romney, and as the saying goes, You Give the People the Choice Between a Real Democrat and a Fake Democrat they’ll pick the Real one Every Time.

You simply can’t buy elections in America. That might have been true in the past, but it isn’t today.

Also check out your favorite lefty today. They’re floundering looking for ANY anti-gun news, no matter how insignificant to talk about rather than point out that groups like MAIG, Joyce, and the Brady Campaign are powerless outside of places like New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts…and even there their grip is slipping.

Looking at the twitter feeds it looks like it was a late night for most of them, I wonder if they got into the Old Cough Medicine.

Thanks for all your hard work Freedom-Loving Coloradans, you not only have protected your rights, but you’ve cost the anti-rights forces MILLIONS in dollars and man-hours, and shown it was all for nothing. They’ll be thinking about that the next time they move on the other states.

There’s a Man who would like to make your state into New York.

Don’t let that happen!

This is really a national story, and national issue, but only a hand full of Coloradans will be able to decide. (Well any any Illegal Voters Bloomberg and the DNC can plant)

Best wishes to all of you, and to the Republic.