“One thing is for sure, this country believes in crime control, not gun control.”
State after State has been announcing either a moving to or passing legislation that brings their State back to more in compliance of “shall not be infringed” of the Second Amendment on the Right of a citizen to keep and bear arms. Unfortunately, while NH tried to bring itself more into compliance with its own Article 2A (” All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state”) , Democrat Maggie Hassan, like all Progressives, turned up her nose against changing our the racist, discriminatory concealed carry law. But more and more citizens are voting with their dollars and time at the range:
If the first quarter is any indication of where this election year is going, 2016 should prove to send a strong message to every candidate running their campaign on gun control. It ain’t happening.
So far, 2016 is on pace to burn past last year’s record of 23 million background checks. The FBI reported an impressive 7,682,141 background checks in the first quarter this year. That’s a 36% increase from the same period last year, when the FBI reported 5,644,866 background checks.
But it’s not just gun sales.
Somebody should write the book, “When you give a citizen a gun…” because they’re going to want a concealed carry permit to go with it. Texas has issued it’s 1 millionth concealed carry permit, the number of Illinois FOID cards now surpass 2 million, and every state in the union seems to be buried in applications.
In Moore County, NC, County officials say they have more than 300 back-logged applications waiting to be processed. In Fayetteville, NC, Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office lawyer Ronnie Mitchell says gun permits have surged more than 90%, forcing the Sheriff to ask county commissioners to fund an additional employee to handle firearms permits.
“It’s not just Cumberland County,” Mitchell said. “It seems to be a nationwide phenomenon.”
In West Virginia, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department reported a 90% increase in concealed carry holders in the first quarter of 2016 but Wood County has them beat. “Early in 2015 we about on average about 120 new applications a month and new permits issued, and over the past six months that’s spiked up to about 150 per month on average,” said Captain Mark King from the Wood County Sheriff’s Department.
According to State Police data accessed by the Macomb Clerk’s Office, Michigan saw a jump of more than 10,000 permits in only 24 days.
One thing is for sure, this country believes in crime control, not gun control.
Self-defense is a personal responsibility and I will take our Article 2A over the Second Amendment any day as it is much clearer – and much harder to quibble about. It is straight forward and without the older style of English construction that was much better understood when the Bill of Rights was created than by our social justice besotten / political correctness driven Progressives nowadays. Like this former child start turned commentor on that high brow issues show “The View“:
“You need to go to the government and say, ‘The Second Amendment was made at a time when we needed to protect ourselves from whomever’s going to show up at our door for war.’ Now we have all kinds of stuff that we don’t need. We don’t need these guns everywhere, and I have a gun. I don’t need it. I’ve got it.”
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one and actually proves a point that Raven Symone doesn’t even know she made:
Need has NOTHING to do with Freedom. Freedom just is – and it doesn’t have to be apologized for or rationalized. Either you have it or someone or some Government has taken it away from you.
-Skip Murphy
And she expresses the number one (and condescending) tell of a Progressive: “You don’t need it” and what normally trails after that is the belief that since THEY believe YOU shouldn’t have something, they will not try to persuade you personally to get rid of something or stop doing some behavior, they IMMEDIATELY run to Government to FORCE you to bend to their will. After all, she like all other Progressives, believe that only The State should own the implements of Force and have a unitary monopoly on such.
That is totalitarianism writ small and then made large.
