Opinion
As expected, SB 243 passed the House Rules Committee and is now on its way to the full House and the Ways and Means Committee.
But not without Representative Kropf once again demonstrating his complete and total ignorance of Oregon gun law. His inability to read black letter law is truly unsettling.
243 creates a vast new patchwork of prohibited places for concealed handgun licensees. Virtually any government entity will be empowered to ban license holders from “their” property.
The sponsors of the bill made it clear that while there were no examples of CHL holders creating problems, they were ramming the bill through because some people were afraid that others might be exercising a right. So, the rights of some will be eliminated by the neurotic “feelings” of others.
To be clear, the bill includes exactly nothing to prevent truly dangerous people from bringing guns into public meetings. It only advertises to them that they will meet no resistance. It’s interesting that the paranoid red shirts are perfectly fine with giving criminals access to public meetings while armed. But clearly, now Oregon is legislating based on the whims of the emotionally unbalanced. But we are getting used to that.
The bill also bans “rapid fire actuators”. Many of the banned items are already illegal under federal law. The thousands of people who own the other ones lawfully in Oregon will become criminals when the bill goes into effect and felons should they attempt to dispose of them.
Far left crank Floyd Prozanski suggested that all those people only got them to commit mass murders. As of now, it is unclear why they have not. Perhaps Floyd can clarify in his next incoherent floor speech.
The bill was also amended to include implementation dates for the permit and component ban sections of Mz 114 which, as you know, is currently held up in the Oregon Supreme Court.
The damage this bill will do cannot be adequately calculated. Republicans have promised to do all they can to “fight it.”
But the simple truth is they don’t have the power to do a damn thing about it except run their mouths and send out press releases. The only tool they have is to refuse to participate and keep the Democrats from one more irrational attack on your rights.
In a mass email today, House Rep Jeff Helfrich said, “While Democrats and the supermajority are slowly trying to chip away at your right to bear arms, we hope that the courts will uphold our federal and state constitutions.”
They can “hope” all they want, but as we have learned, they expect others to foot the bill for any lawsuits.
In an email to a voter, House Republican “Leader” Christine Drazan said: “A walkout is not a substitute for winning elections. The supermajority has 2 years to control the state and walking today doesn’t stop anything from passing the next time we are called into session.”
This is absurd. The Democrats keep ramming through anti-rights bills because they know the Republicans are going to roll over time after time after time. And then ask you to re-elect them.
Because the House made changes in this bill, it will need to go back to the Senate for concurrence. That means that, as of now, both the House and Senate Republicans still have the opportunity to do the right thing.
The Legislature must close up shop on June 29th. The Republicans would not risk the seats they are determined to keep (for no apparent reason) unless they have ten or more absences that are not “excused” by their Democrat overlords. You can do the math.
We will soon be seeing if their jobs are more important than your rights.
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