- 46,802
- 99,978
Well California just went and banned center fire rifles with detachable magazines.
aka "common sense gun legislation"
aka "common sense gun legislation"
- Hispanics: In the heavily Democrat, hispanic district in Pueblo, hispanics are strong 2nd amendment supporters.
- Women: There were many women behind this Recall movement, beginning when the gun control bills were heard in the State Legislature. A new radio ad out in the final weekend of the election featured Kimberly Weeks, a victim of rape, who testified in the State Legislature and took Senator John Morse to task on why she would be robbed of her right to defend herself. Other women's groups were the first to run ads against Senator John Morse on the theme of "a woman's right to choose... how to defend herself" which pushed the narrative. And even the Spokesperson for the effort (me) is a woman, and I, too, was one of the first women to testify against the gun control bills back in February. I got in under the wire to testify before they shut down the testimony from the public.
- Blue collar: 3 of the 3 Founders of the Pueblo Recall are blue collar workers. 2 of them are plumbers and 1 is an electrician. They connected very well with the demographics of Pueblo, which is a blue collar former-steel worker town. 1 of the founding members of the Morse Recall is also blue collar, he wears a hard hat and spends about 100 hours per week out in an oil field in steel toed boots, then would go home at night and work on the Recall.
From the beginning, we had interesting demographics on our side. Again, by the numbers:More Democrats & Independents combined signed the Recall petition than Republicans.I believe this goes back to #1 above, it struck a populist nerve that appealed to independents. When we saw the turnout on Election Day was spiking with Independent/unaffiliated voters, we were ecstatic because we knew that a majority of those votes would likely break our way.
I can understand khalid or whoever not getting the reference, but you should be ashamed of yourself, Mr."Piggy would have been safer and not have had a boulder encave his skull if he'd had a gun".ctl+f, search for word "gun", 0 found.
what the hell was the point of that retarded straw man?
I would hope that the misleading language there was a mistake, so that the part that states"...with the capacity to accept no more than 10 rounds"would be amended to"...with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds"but I doubt that it is sadly. If the intent was to ban all rifles with a detachable magazine entirely, I don't see why they would need to include any mention of capacity at all. Perhaps they're bound by the existing legislation that addresses"large capacity"magazines @ 10 rounds...Well California just went and banned center fire rifles with detachable magazines.
aka "common sense gun legislation"
IL always had fairly reasonable transportation laws. But I assume thats not what you meant by "going through IL".http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/201...-outside-home/
The question was whether it was constitutional for a person to carry a firearm on your person or in a vehicle that was loaded or immediately accessible. This should make me feel a bit safer now when going through IL with a loaded firearm in my trunk and is a huge victory in one of the most anti-gun states (well, Chicago is, rest of IL not so much).
I meant driving to my dads (well, and mine in a trust) farm and back, not directly driving through IL.IL always had fairly reasonable transportation laws. But I assume thats not what you meant by "going through IL".
This is spot on. The framers had portrayed a pretty specific idea of the power of the individual/minimalist government. Empower the individual so when times of duress arise they can come together to create a stronger solution together; whether it were an invading nation or wide spread famine. Supposedly that's also the core concept of the Republican party platform as well... I think we all know better than that though.Yes. It was meant to support groups like the ones that arose during the revolution. It doesn't have to be a state sponsored militia and given the nature of the writers, and the time, it was probably their intent that it was NOT a state sponsored militia.