The name of the effort is "Connecticut Against Gun Violence." It is currently 2.5 million strong.
The Hartford Courant
The rally, organized by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, drew supporters from all over the state and from other states to the Capitol lawn on Saturday, two days after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy commemorated the passage of SB 1160, which expanded the state's existing ban on assault weapons.
"We're the Constitution State and they passed a law that was completely unconstitutional," CCDL vice president Lenny Benedetto said....
LIE ! I remind there have been two lawsuits by the NRA that were dismissed recently by the Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Hartford (click here) Thursday dismissed a constitutional challenge to the sweeping gun-control legislation passed in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook School massacre.
Gun owners challenged the law on several fronts, including what the state called "an absolutist" Second Amendment claim that the possession of types of semiautomatic rifles and large-capacity magazines banned under the law was a constitutionally guaranteed right.
"The court concludes that the legislation is constitutional," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello. "While the act burdens the plaintiffs' Second Amendment rights, it is substantially related to the important governmental interest of public safety and crime control."...
What occurred in the past year was a time period for current gun owners to come into compliance with the new laws. The timeline to that compliance ended and now there are people that ignored the law, stood against it's compliance or simply didn't know; they now face fines and otherwise. That is not the way a reasonable person conducts their opposition to law. A reasonable person complies and seeks to oppose through measures available to them.
So, right from the start those ignoring the law or opposing it through noncompliance makes their position illegitimate. They don't even know what happens within compliance. They only know they THINK they have rights over and above the law that they sincerely don't have and they want the courts to prove they are correct. They aren't correct.
There can be laws, we know that from previous Supreme Court rulings, that protect people from irresponsible use of guns. We know that. People do not have to be in danger because someone doesn't want to comply with protective legislation.
Now, because they are pouting they are trying to discredit legitimately elected legislators and supposedly replace them with people that serve only one expertise and that is to repeal the laws enacted after the Sandy Hook slayings.
We have to stand with the people that act to protect us, hence, "Thunderclap." These opponents to the laws have a theory that has never been proven. They BELIEVE (like a religion) that if the entire nation was armed there would be no deaths of anyone. In other words, the Wild West. Well, even in the Wild West when there were duals people died. So, much for their theory. We know that controlling the guns work when no other measures do.
One of the Connecticut gun control groups (click here) put down its marker today, releasing an agenda that probably represents the outer limits what is politically possible in the General Assembly after Newtown.
The agenda of Connecticut Against Gun Violence takes note of the recently passed New York legislation, which expands its assault weapon ban and limits the sale of magazines to those that hold no more than seven rounds, a stricter limit that previous proposals....
April 6, 2014
HARTFORD — Almost a year to the day (click here) after the state legislature passed a historic and far-reaching gun control law,
thousands of opponents of the law gathered at the state Capitol on
Saturday to remind legislators that they aren't going anywhere.The rally, organized by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, drew supporters from all over the state and from other states to the Capitol lawn on Saturday, two days after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy commemorated the passage of SB 1160, which expanded the state's existing ban on assault weapons.
"We're the Constitution State and they passed a law that was completely unconstitutional," CCDL vice president Lenny Benedetto said....
LIE ! I remind there have been two lawsuits by the NRA that were dismissed recently by the Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Hartford (click here) Thursday dismissed a constitutional challenge to the sweeping gun-control legislation passed in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook School massacre.
Gun owners challenged the law on several fronts, including what the state called "an absolutist" Second Amendment claim that the possession of types of semiautomatic rifles and large-capacity magazines banned under the law was a constitutionally guaranteed right.
"The court concludes that the legislation is constitutional," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello. "While the act burdens the plaintiffs' Second Amendment rights, it is substantially related to the important governmental interest of public safety and crime control."...
What occurred in the past year was a time period for current gun owners to come into compliance with the new laws. The timeline to that compliance ended and now there are people that ignored the law, stood against it's compliance or simply didn't know; they now face fines and otherwise. That is not the way a reasonable person conducts their opposition to law. A reasonable person complies and seeks to oppose through measures available to them.
So, right from the start those ignoring the law or opposing it through noncompliance makes their position illegitimate. They don't even know what happens within compliance. They only know they THINK they have rights over and above the law that they sincerely don't have and they want the courts to prove they are correct. They aren't correct.
There can be laws, we know that from previous Supreme Court rulings, that protect people from irresponsible use of guns. We know that. People do not have to be in danger because someone doesn't want to comply with protective legislation.
Now, because they are pouting they are trying to discredit legitimately elected legislators and supposedly replace them with people that serve only one expertise and that is to repeal the laws enacted after the Sandy Hook slayings.
We have to stand with the people that act to protect us, hence, "Thunderclap." These opponents to the laws have a theory that has never been proven. They BELIEVE (like a religion) that if the entire nation was armed there would be no deaths of anyone. In other words, the Wild West. Well, even in the Wild West when there were duals people died. So, much for their theory. We know that controlling the guns work when no other measures do.
One of the Connecticut gun control groups (click here) put down its marker today, releasing an agenda that probably represents the outer limits what is politically possible in the General Assembly after Newtown.
The agenda of Connecticut Against Gun Violence takes note of the recently passed New York legislation, which expands its assault weapon ban and limits the sale of magazines to those that hold no more than seven rounds, a stricter limit that previous proposals....
