Not only are you stripping the right of the local municipalities to protect safety but you’re also asking them to adhere to gun laws at the state level that don’t even exist.
Brian Malte
Director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
September 27, 2011
Lawyer keeps local gun laws in his sights—Lawsuits against Evansville and Hammond demand communities comply with state measure
[“Protect safety”? “Adhere to gun laws that don’t exit”? What in the world does that even mean?
I suppose it’s possible the reporter had the crap for brains and messed up the quote but I doubt it because the quotes from the other people in the article weren’t just word salads. It could have been deliberate maliciousness by the reporter but usually the bias is against gun owners.
It’s true that we are sometimes our worst enemy but it may be more so for our opponents. We don’t always act as a team and give conflicting messages to the public and the politicians. We have people that sometimes say things that which, while true, can be exploited by our opponents. They have crap for brains and it shows.—Joe]
I like adhering to gun laws that don’t exist! 🙂 Wouldn’t that be Vermont (or Constitutional) Carry?
It probably should be “protect public safety.”
Yes, and public safety is protected by protecting rights. If your rights aren’t protected you are, by definition, not safe. QED.
As for “…the right of the local municipalities to…(fill in the blank)”. If the “rights of local municipalities” and by extension, the rights of states, are the sacred cow, the goal, the ideal which must be protected, um…abortion anyone? Immigration? Drug laws? If you favor local control, because you’re so liberty-minded, how about we abolish all federal gun laws then?
Oops; I guess you’re not for states rights, or local municipal rights after all, are you? You’re in favor of “protecting the right to local control” only when it suits your statist agenda, so lets cut the crap and be honest about what we’re advocating. Oops again– socialists are always the chameleons. They can rarely if ever be honest. I’ll be honest– I favor the only rights that exist– individual rights.
The quote shows the incoherence of the arguments of the VPC/Brady bunch crowd.