House Bill 1116 goes before Senate Judiciary tomorrow morning alongside House Bill 1096. Both bills revise our concealed weapons permit laws. HB 1096 is the mellower of the two, clarifying how the background check for a concealed weapons permit will…
Posts tagged as “Second Amendment”
Gordon Howie tags his post on our video conversation about the Second Amendment with a graphic reading, "Criminals prefer unarmed victims, and dictators prefer unarmed citizens." Australia isn't a dictatorship, is it? Just as the Newtown shooting triggered new gun…
I should be wary of any conversation that starts with my interlocutor's promise not to shoot me. But Gordon Howie stuck to his promise: cameraman Ed Randazzo aimed nothing but the cameras at me during this conversation about guns and…
An eager reader turned our discussion of the relative safety of rural and urban areas to the South Dakota Open Carry march taking place in Sioux Falls this evening. At 5:15 p.m., a group of armed individuals will assemble at…
Mr. Kallis quotes Justice Scalia's excellent dissent from the privacy-trashing majority in Maryland v. King: Today's judgment will, to be sure, have the beneficial effect of solving more crimes; then again, so would the taking of DNA samples from anyone…
Governing surveyed senior-level state and local officials on gun policy. Among the interesting results is that government officials may carry guns more frequently than the general population. The Governing Index survey finds 47% of these officials saying they own guns.…
Dakota War College offers another analysis-less red-meat nugget to the slobbering gun nuts whose faith in their trigger fingers is about 150 years behind political reality. DWC author Pat Powers spotlights Saturday's Senate vote on Senator James Inhofe's SA 139,…
In South Dakota, the lunatics don't just run the asylum; they arm it. Rep. Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) brings House Bill 1180 to the House Health and Human Services Committee. Hunhoff's original plan was to have the Yankton County Board of…