The ruling class in SC shows it's true colors..

[Todd v.]

A few SC legislators proposed a bill that would allow them to carry concealed anywhere unlike us mere citizens who are restricted from carrying even in a restaurant that serves alcohol even if we aren't drinking. Here's the update I got from Grass Roots which is an MSI like organization in SC..

January 25, 2011


Some elected representatives are finally seeing the prohibited carry restrictions placed upon concealed weapon permit (CWP) holders are unreasonable and need to be abolished - but not for you. Unfortunately, the only gun related legislation moving forward in the SC General Assembly is a bill - H. 3405 - to make politicians more equal than the rest of us.


H. 3405 would let “any other elected or appointed public official” - that means politicians - who possesses a CWP to carry a self-defense firearm anywhere in the state. But, this bill will NOT allow YOU same freedom! H. 3405 is nothing more than a self serving bill that proves that politicians think their lives are more important than your life or the lives of your family!


H. 3405 will allow politicians to carry in schools, restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages, churches, day care facilities, high school and college football games, publicly owned buildings, court houses and court rooms, private residences without permission, and even into posted businesses! But, H. 3405 will do NOTHING for you!


H. 3405 is another example of how politicians seem to forget the fact that they are public servants, not our lords and masters. Why should public servants have greater privileges than you? Isn’t your life and your family’s life just as important as the life of a politician?


GrassRoots GunRights strongly opposes H. 3405, just as we did similar proposed legislation last session and the session before that.


GrassRoots still believes the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Evidently, some SC politicians do not believe SC citizens should be treated as their equals. Unfortunately, some politicians think like the pigs from George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” where the ruling pigs said “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”


After the recent AZ shootings, Rep. Ron Paul wrote about the “growing perception that politicians view their own lives as far more important than the lives of ordinary citizens.” H. 3405 is a perfect example of why people have such a perception......

 

[swinokur]

How is this constitutional? Oh that's right, we don't use the Constitution any longer. sorry

 

[seanc]

Who are these people!?

 

[Huckleberry]

The Egos have landed in Charleston

 

[MDFF2008]

You know if it passes, it would be a great 14th amendment challenge to force it to apply to everyone.

 

[hole punch]

Geez.. Wow, anyways.. This proves two things:

1) that indeed we are right to feel that CCW restrictions are wrong, even the enemy is starting to agree with us.

2) that the political class are showing their true colors by showing that they genuinely feel that they are above us peons.

 

[Hopalong]

You know if it passes, it would be a great 14th amendment challenge to force it to apply to everyone.

I rather like the way you think. Let it pass without a fight, then use the 14th to make it apply equally to all.

Interesting....

 

[jdramsey]

I rather like the way you think. Let it pass without a fight, then use the 14th to make it apply equally to all.

Interesting....

+1

 

[zoostation]

It amazes me that some politicians would even have the hubris to introduce such a bill.

Ahh, no it doesn't......

 

[jonnyl]

You know how sometimes a thought passes through your mind, then you realize it's wrong and you're really glad you didn't say it out loud?

This bill sounds like that. Only some politicians seem to be missing that inner voice that says "Wow, If I express that idea I'd sound like a real clueless jerk"

 

[eruby]

While I'm sure many of the South Carolina legislators feel they are above the law (kind of like here in Maryland), both the original law and the amended law contains the phrase when carrying out the duties of their office

Of course I'm sure their duties of office include movies, golfing and going to shrimp boils.

SECTION 1. Section 23-31-240 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 23-31-240. Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this article, the following persons who possess a valid permit pursuant to this article may carry a concealable weapon anywhere within this State, when carrying out the duties of their office:

(1) active Supreme Court justices; ..... ; and (13) any other elected or appointed public official."

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3405.htm

 

[GNLaFrance]

"South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum." ~ James Petigru, on his native state in 1860