Gabby Giffords’s Gun
Control Group Fights for Permit to Purchase in NC
by AWR Hawkins7 Jun 2015
Just days after Carol Bowne was stabbed to death while
waiting for state permission to buy a gun in New Jersey,
Gabby Giffords’s gun control group is lobbying to keep a permit-to-purchase law
on the books in North Carolina.
Breitbart News previously
reported that Bowne had a restraining order against her former
boyfriend and applied for a license to buy a handgun for self-defense. But
nearly four weeks after applying, she still had not received the state’s
permission and was defenseless when her former boyfriend allegedly stabbed her
to death on June 3.
Giffords’s gun control group—Americans for Responsible Solutions—is
now fighting House Bill 562: a GOP-sponsored bill designed to roll back the
permit-to-purchase process in the North Carolina.
According to The Charlotte Observer, Giffords’s group is running
a television ad in which Wilson County Sheriff Wayne Gay says:
“As a sheriff for 28 years, I fought to keep our communities
safe,” Gay says in the new ad. “But right now, some in the legislature want to
repeal background checks on handguns. This will make it easier for criminals
and the mentally ill to get guns. … Tell the folks in Raleigh we need to keep
background checks.”
But as HB 562 does not remove background checks, as they are
federal requirement. Rather, it removes the very kind of state level
permit-to-purchase requirement that failed Bowne so miserably in New Jersey.
Permit-to-purchase approval depends on a sheriff signing off
on each individual applicant. And state Rep. Jacqueline Schaffer
(R-Charlotte), sponsor of HB 562, explained that it is this aspect of
the permit to purchase a gun that has North Carolinians so worried.
She said, “There
are a lot of individuals around the state who feel they are arbitrarily denied
a permit by a sheriff. So if we go to a standardized system, people feel that
would be a more fair system.”
Each gun control law added to the Second Amendment does, to
one degree or another, stifle the exercise of the Second Amendment. In the case
of North Carolina, the most egregious control is a permit-to-purchase process
that invites infringement via a sheriff with a pontential personal vendetta. In
New Jersey, it is the simple fact that the process for approval for a permit
takes approximately two months.
In either case, there are precious hours, days, or weeks
where an applicant under threat is left to cower in fear while the state
decides whether to grant permission to exercise the Second Amendment.
North
Carolina
Patrick L. McCrory
is the North Carolina state government
governor, was the Charlotte (NC)
mayor, and a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
Note: 'Murdered' mom cover-up implodes as report released (PAST
RESEARCH ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL)
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Martin
O'Malley was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore
(MD) mayor, and is the Maryland
state government governor.
Ex-Mayor Martin O'Malley Heckled During Baltimore Riot
Tour (PAST RESEARCH ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
William J. Bratton
is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, the commissioner for the New
York City Police Department, was the police commissioner for Boston (MA), a superintendent for the Boston Metropolitan Police, and the chief
for the Los Angeles (CA) Police
Department.
Elliott B. Broidy
was a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and a commissioner for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System.
Lee
H. Hamilton is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Harlem Children's
Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation,
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, and is Emma
Bloomberg’s father.
Emma
Bloomberg is Michael R. Bloomberg’s
daughter, and was a senior planning officer for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Robin Hood
Foundation raised money for the Hurricane Sandy relief.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is a relief organization for Hurricane
Sandy.
Steven
A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
Mary Pat
Christie is the chair for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, and married to the New Jersey state government governor Christopher J. Christie.
Mark
E. Kelly is a co-founder for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, and married to Gabrielle Giffords.
Gabrielle
Giffords is married to Mark E. Kelly,
and a co-founder for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation, the New
York (NY) mayor, and is Emma
Bloomberg’s father.
Richard J. Sheirer
was the commissioner of emergency management for New York (NY), and a deputy commissioner for the New York City Police Department.
William J. Bratton
is the commissioner for the New York
City Police Department, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was the police commissioner for
Boston (MA), a superintendent for
the Boston Metropolitan Police, and
the chief for the Los Angeles (CA)
Police Department.
Patrick L. McCrory
was a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, the Charlotte (NC)
mayor, and is the North Carolina state
government governor.
'Murdered' mom cover-up implodes as report released (PAST
RESEARCH ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL)
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Martin
O'Malley was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore
(MD) mayor, and is the Maryland
state government governor.
Ex-Mayor Martin O'Malley Heckled During Baltimore Riot
Tour (PAST RESEARCH ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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