Posted by
Bill of Rights on Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:00:35 PM
What a great couple of days! I wasn't able to post after the Indy trip where Diana and I met Sen. Nugent and Jim and Margie's group. (computer problems) but it was a very successful trip and I got my first taste of testifying before a Senate committee. I was very pleased to have everything work out so smoothly despite the abbreviated time available to us; my five minute speech was too long, apparently, and I had to cut it down to about a minute and a half, but we got heard and SB 356 is on it's way to the full Senate! After it passes there (thinking positively), it goes to the Democrat (sic)-controlled House, where we'll be in for a bigger fight, obviously. I'd really like to see the prohibition on courthouse carry that was added in committee be removed as well; after all, why should I, a law-abiding, peaceable citizen with a License To Carry, be forced to choose whether to obey the law or protect my life and safety, or that of my family in a courthouse or on the way across the street to or from a courthouse? The ideal solution, if the anti-rights crowd must have their way, would be to have gun lockers at the entrance to any place guns are forbidden-at least you'd have a way to get to your firearm if you had to do so. (admittedly, I'd prefer we went to Alaska-style carry, but one thing at a time)
Then, fast forward to today, we had our first gun safety workshop, courtesy of Flat Creek Range and IN Self Defense members Dick Foley and Bob Burr. We had five people show up for this class, two of them new shooters! It was a lively class, with almost constant discussion back and forth and I am putting it down in the books as a success. Thanks Dick and Bob, good work!
Our next meeting is on Tuesday the 29th at 6PM at the MCL cafeteria on Sagamore Parkway, West Lafayette. We look forward to seeing you there!