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Grass Roots North Carolina for Firearms Education
North Carolina --(Ammoland.com)- Insensitively exploiting the recent evil mass-homicide within a “Gun-Free” Connecticut school, the Winston-Salem City Council announced a list of requested legislation they want to see from this year’s NC General Assembly.
Among these demands is repeal of last year’s expanded park carry that was passed as HB 650.
Incredibly, the Council responds to murder in a “Gun-Free Zone” by demanding expansion of their dangerous reach within North Carolina municipalities.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines was quoted as saying park carry is “a mixed bag, and it’s confusing. The legislature pre-empted local governments’ authority to control local parks. I think they should leave that up to us.”
Compliance with this law is as easy as permitting law-abiding citizens to carry everywhere. Left up to the Mayor, we would be unable to defend our families in parks. This type of endangerment can no longer be tolerated.
Council Member Derwin Montgomery claims, “local governments have a right to regulate the time and place (arms are carried)”. So according to the Councilman, a right that “shall not be infringed” upon can be “regulated”?
Perhaps Winston-Salem’s efforts are more-related to an attempt to avoid responsibility for violating the provisions of HB 650 and the resulting lawsuit pursued GRNC’s partner, Rights Watch International?
Either way, Winston-Salem has earned a reminder from North Carolina gun owners that we will not permit expansion of dangerous “Gun-Free Zones” in our state, and have no patience for municipalities that violate state law by infringing upon gun rights.
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!
CONTACT THE WINSTON-SALEM CITY COUNCIL and let them know that you don’t appreciate their clear violations of state law and attempt to expand dangerous “Gun-Free Zones” of defenselessness within NC municipalities
CONTACT INFO
danbesse@danbesse.org; vivianb@cityofws.org; denisea@cityofws.org; robertc@cityofws.org; derwinm@cityofws.org; mollyl@cityofws.org; wandam@cityofws.org; jamestjr@cityofws.org; allenj@cityofws.org
DELIVER THIS MESSAGE
Suggested Subject: Don’t make parks “Gun-Free” murder zones.
Winston-Salem leadership :
I am disappointed that you have decided to violate state law and continue to violate the rights of law-abiding North Carolina gun owners to defend themselves and their families in your parks. I am also disappointed that you are demanding that HB 650, last year’s expanded park carry bill, be rescinded. This important law decreases the area in which citizens are disarmed in our state. As we have seen with the increase in mass-homicides within “Gun-Free Zones”, places where citizens are prevented from being able to effectively defend themselves and their families are the most dangerous places in our society.
I urge you to stop your promotion of “Gun-Free Zones” in parks, and to embrace the common-sense expansion of freedom created by HB 650.
Sincerely,
About:
Grass Roots North Carolina/Forum for Firearms Education is a non-profit, all volunteer organization devoted to educating the public about trends which abridge the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, and engaging in grass roots activism to preserve those freedoms. Formed in 1994 to conduct a highly successful rally for the Second Amendment, GRNC has gone on to conduct projects like “Remember in November: A Gun Owner’s Guide to Voting,” bringing concealed carry to North Carolina. Visit:www.grnc.org
What has to be done is, your State government has to do what ours in Florida did. They put some teeth into the State preemption law. Any county, locality, or even an individual law enforcement officer who violates the law can be held financially responsible. By the way, we have had no problems in our parks here with unintended shootings, whatsoever.
Mayor Joines and city of W.S. you need to understand not just in our city but other cities around the country that we are not living in a PERFECT WORLD!. You have to focus on the straight forward reality and that is that crime is on the increase by criminals that can and will acquire their choice of weapons at the time and place of their choosing and they will infringe their malice and hanus acts of brutality and of which in most cases include death to each and every one of us at any given time. Our number 1 equalizer for self preservation and also for our families and friends is the right to carry and bear arms. Lets face it, our police and Law Enforcement are out there on the job 24/7, However! they themselves will admit and tell you the likihood of them being able to stop or deter a violent encounter by being at the place where the crime is happening or taking place is Very! Very! unlikely. I am a Law abiding citizen bar none, but understand the reason why be must always be on our guard for these predators who would seek to harm us for no justifiable means other than by attempting to murder, steal, rob, rape, and assault just to satisfy their own twisted means. That’s why I ask that you and all the city council members “Do Not Resend” the parks Gun Law, and as well Lets move forward by supporting together Licensed Concealed Carry and once and for all send a message to anyone at any time anywhere, especially in Winston Salem that we will not tolerate criminals and criminal acts and they will be met with force if necessary. If we once and for all stand up in this regard we will not only be supporting our Brave Men and Women of Law enforcement who put their life on the line everday, but we can finally send a Strong message that will reach beyond comprehension that enough is enough.
Thank You,
God Bless You All