Posted by
Bill of Rights on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:21:48 PM
Oh.
My.
God.
I have just read the digests of two bills being introduced to the Indiana State Legislature for the 2008 regular session.
Senate Bill 0065
2008 Regular Session
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Possession of handguns. Provides that a person who possesses a valid Indiana license to carry a handgun may not be prohibited from possessing a handgun on land or in buildings and other structures owned or leased by: (1) the state or a political subdivision of the state; or (2) a nonpublic elementary school, nonpublic secondary school, or nonpublic postsecondary educational institution. Provides exceptions for airports and penal facilities. |
I've written to confirm this, but it's my understanding from reading the above that such places where we who have voluntarily chosen to submit our fingerprints and backgrounds to scrutiny would no longer be prohibited from carrying defensive firearms would include:
The State Capitol
County courthouses
State Fair
Shipping ports
Private schools at elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels
Public schools (as school corporations are political subdivisions) at the above levels.
Prohibitions would still apply to school buses, airports (sterile areas) and airplanes, and of course federal properties (I'm unsure if this would include Head Start) which are beyond the reach of state law, and newly added to the state statute would be penal facilities of all types.
This is absolutely huge, folks.
For those who oppose Second Amendment rights who may be reading, let me ease your fears.
We're not talking about kids carrying. We're not talking about criminals or crazies carrying (no law has yet stopped the latter two if they choose to do so). We're talking about your doctor, your banker, your next door neighbor, and the lady who sits next to you in church.
We're not talking about making it legal to shoot people in those places, just to make it possible to stop someone trying to do so. This is security for your kids. Metal detectors at the door only make the guy sitting next to them the first target. Twenty thousand prohibitive and unConstitutional laws don't stop criminals, they just make it possible to punish people (if they don't kill themselves first) who violate those laws. Wouldn't it be better to stop them before they kill thirty-plus people?
Senate Bill 0066
2008 Regular Session
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Firearms in locked vehicles. Prohibits a person from adopting or enforcing a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting an individual from legally possessing a firearm that is locked in the individual's vehicle while the vehicle is in or on the person's property. Excepts possession of a firearm: (1) on school property or a school bus; (2) on certain child care and shelter facility property; (3) on penal facility property; and (4) in violation of federal law. Provides that a person who, in compliance with the prohibition, does not adopt or enforce such a policy or rule is not liable for resulting injury or damage. Authorizes a civil action for damages, costs, attorney's fees, and injunctive relief to remedy a violation. |
This one is almost as good as the first. It basically recognizes that while a property owner has a right to his or her property, so does the owner of a vehicle have the right to his or her own property as well, and the property owner has given permission for the vehicle to be on his lot; he cannot refuse the owner of the vehicle the right to his own property inside it.
Again, to the liberals, laws permitting a property owner to disallow certain items of your property from your vehicle on their land just don't make sense. Suppose you work for a Republican and he says that you cannot have anti-Bush propaganda in your car on his property. The only difference is that free speech and free press are protected by one amendment and a free society is protected by the other.
Ladies and gentlemen, please, begin writing to your state legislators today, right now. Tell them that you support SB 65 and SB 66 unequivocally, and you want to see these measures passed into state law this year. This is very important, citizens- we're winning back our rights. Let's keep it up!
To find your legislator, go to this link:
http://www.in.gov/apps/sos/legislator/search/