Some people here in Missouri are angry and discouraged that some police chiefs, prosecutors, and other elected officials are dragging their feet and sometimes issuing outright lies about implementing concealed carry. These citizens are also upset that lawyers Newman and Miller are lying about the law and soliciting more suits.
Folks, this is EXPECTED. It ALWAYS happens. Look at history. From my website http://www.john-ross.net/missouri_ccw.htm
[Snipped news of the Supreme Court ruling]
The Supreme Court can, theoretically, change its opinion in the next fifteen days, and that is the reason some officials are bleating that car carry and carry with a permit from another area is still illegal. I'm not a lawyer, so don't ask me for legal advice, but the Supreme Court DISSOLVED Ohmer's injunction. To me that means car carry and carry with a permit are legal RIGHT NOW. Yes, the Court could change its mind next week, issue a new opinion that carry is unconstitutional, and reinstate the injunction, at which time car carry would be illegal again. But the injunction is not in place right now, so the law stands as written and passed. (Since all seven justices agreed the legislature has the authority to make laws regarding concealed carry, four of them would have to flip by March 12 to reinstate the injunction. I think that unlikely.) However, you may want to wait two weeks before exercising your rights. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The Bad News: _Other counties (and taxpayers in those counties) can, in the next fifteen days, bring suits claiming their county can't afford to process CCW applications and demanding an injunction to prevent the county from processing applications. Burton Newman is actively soliciting clients to bring such suits. We may see some counties "opt out" of issuing endorsements.
The Good News: Suits seeking injunctions such as Newman is soliciting all have one thing in common: In each case, the plaintiffs must post a bond. There may be a limited number of people willing to risk losing their houses to preserve the doctrine of victim disarmament in their county. Burton Newman allegedly put up $75,000 of the $250,000 bond needed with Ohmer's now-dissolved injunction, and that money is still at risk. Perhaps Newman will be willing to post the bonds for the various new injunctions he's trying to encourage.
What is actually happening: Some anti-rights police officials are vowing to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling and arrest anyone who has a gun in his car. This is to be expected, as it ALWAYS happens whenever a freedom-enhancing measure is passed.
Look back to the Civil Rights era. It was police chiefs that ordered the police dogs and water cannons to be turned loose on the freedom marchers. It was police chiefs who ordered their officers to keep blacks out of the Forest Park Highlands amusement park in St. Louis right up until it burned down in 1964, even though "Separate but equal" had been struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court almost a decade earlier.
What to do: Do not be discouraged. When the Berlin Wall came down, it took almost a year for the last of the East German thugs who had been in power to leave the area. America has a similar history, and we are repeating it here in Missouri.
When you hear an official on the television or radio talking about arresting citizens for car carry or carry with a permit from another area, remember the despicable public officials a generation ago who screamed "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" after the Civil Rights Act passed.
When you hear Burton Newman spout his bile on the radio, remember the Klan lawyers a generation ago who used every false statement they could to thwart the newly restored rights of black citizens.
When you hear Lyda Krewson pounding on the coffin of her murdered (by a carjacker) husband, demanding that YOU be forced BY LAW to be as defenseless as he was, remember Darnell "Boss Man" McGee. McGee was an HIV-positive East St. Louis man who, upon discovering his condition, set about to make others share his misery by infecting as many other people as he could before he died. He succeeded in giving at least 18 Missouri women the AIDS virus before being killed during a robbery, but his total is several times that, as Illinois health officials refuse to release the number of women McGee infected in his home state. There will always be people like McGee and Krewson around, trying to make your life as bad as theirs. Accept that fact, and deal with it. Shun such people for their reprehensible behavior.
Keep the pressure on! Sheriffs are elected, and they want to stay in office. The sheriff of Cape Girardeau about had a stroke when he saw the Supreme Court ruling that implied he wanted to opt out of accepting applications. He was a witness for OUR SIDE in the hearing, and is accepting applications right now.
The enemies of freedom are kicking and screaming, but they are LOSING. Never lose sight of that.
JR
Folks, this is EXPECTED. It ALWAYS happens. Look at history. From my website http://www.john-ross.net/missouri_ccw.htm
[Snipped news of the Supreme Court ruling]
The Supreme Court can, theoretically, change its opinion in the next fifteen days, and that is the reason some officials are bleating that car carry and carry with a permit from another area is still illegal. I'm not a lawyer, so don't ask me for legal advice, but the Supreme Court DISSOLVED Ohmer's injunction. To me that means car carry and carry with a permit are legal RIGHT NOW. Yes, the Court could change its mind next week, issue a new opinion that carry is unconstitutional, and reinstate the injunction, at which time car carry would be illegal again. But the injunction is not in place right now, so the law stands as written and passed. (Since all seven justices agreed the legislature has the authority to make laws regarding concealed carry, four of them would have to flip by March 12 to reinstate the injunction. I think that unlikely.) However, you may want to wait two weeks before exercising your rights. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The Bad News: _Other counties (and taxpayers in those counties) can, in the next fifteen days, bring suits claiming their county can't afford to process CCW applications and demanding an injunction to prevent the county from processing applications. Burton Newman is actively soliciting clients to bring such suits. We may see some counties "opt out" of issuing endorsements.
The Good News: Suits seeking injunctions such as Newman is soliciting all have one thing in common: In each case, the plaintiffs must post a bond. There may be a limited number of people willing to risk losing their houses to preserve the doctrine of victim disarmament in their county. Burton Newman allegedly put up $75,000 of the $250,000 bond needed with Ohmer's now-dissolved injunction, and that money is still at risk. Perhaps Newman will be willing to post the bonds for the various new injunctions he's trying to encourage.
What is actually happening: Some anti-rights police officials are vowing to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling and arrest anyone who has a gun in his car. This is to be expected, as it ALWAYS happens whenever a freedom-enhancing measure is passed.
Look back to the Civil Rights era. It was police chiefs that ordered the police dogs and water cannons to be turned loose on the freedom marchers. It was police chiefs who ordered their officers to keep blacks out of the Forest Park Highlands amusement park in St. Louis right up until it burned down in 1964, even though "Separate but equal" had been struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court almost a decade earlier.
What to do: Do not be discouraged. When the Berlin Wall came down, it took almost a year for the last of the East German thugs who had been in power to leave the area. America has a similar history, and we are repeating it here in Missouri.
When you hear an official on the television or radio talking about arresting citizens for car carry or carry with a permit from another area, remember the despicable public officials a generation ago who screamed "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" after the Civil Rights Act passed.
When you hear Burton Newman spout his bile on the radio, remember the Klan lawyers a generation ago who used every false statement they could to thwart the newly restored rights of black citizens.
When you hear Lyda Krewson pounding on the coffin of her murdered (by a carjacker) husband, demanding that YOU be forced BY LAW to be as defenseless as he was, remember Darnell "Boss Man" McGee. McGee was an HIV-positive East St. Louis man who, upon discovering his condition, set about to make others share his misery by infecting as many other people as he could before he died. He succeeded in giving at least 18 Missouri women the AIDS virus before being killed during a robbery, but his total is several times that, as Illinois health officials refuse to release the number of women McGee infected in his home state. There will always be people like McGee and Krewson around, trying to make your life as bad as theirs. Accept that fact, and deal with it. Shun such people for their reprehensible behavior.
Keep the pressure on! Sheriffs are elected, and they want to stay in office. The sheriff of Cape Girardeau about had a stroke when he saw the Supreme Court ruling that implied he wanted to opt out of accepting applications. He was a witness for OUR SIDE in the hearing, and is accepting applications right now.
The enemies of freedom are kicking and screaming, but they are LOSING. Never lose sight of that.
JR
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