Eliminate Concealed Carry Exemption for Elected Officials

[Banjarmon]

I just read this articular and totally agree that ALL Government officials should be under the same law!

Bill Would Eliminate Concealed Carry Exemption for Elected Officials

Bill Would Eliminate Concealed Carry Exemption for Elected Officials

Can you imagine how many government officials would be dis armed??

 

[telpinaro]

I'm in favor of removing every type of elected official exemption. Make them go on Obamacare and see how fast they'd fix the health system.

 

[BluesStringer]

I just read this articular and totally agree that ALL Government officials should be under the same law!

Bill Would Eliminate Concealed Carry Exemption for Elected Officials

Bill Would Eliminate Concealed Carry Exemption for Elected Officials

Can you imagine how many government officials would be dis armed??

Exactly zero would be disarmed. The article that you linked to says that they can get a permit from their local Sheriff "immediately." If that word means the same thing in Idaho as it does here in Alabama, it is quite literally immediately. Even a week or a month waiting like some jurisdictions have wouldn't be "disarming" them, at least no more so than the public at large is disarmed during their waiting periods.

Blues

 

[NavyLCDR]

Exactly zero would be disarmed.

Blues

You are making a pretty strong assumption that they would be eligible for the permit and not prohibited.

 

[BluesStringer]

You are making a pretty strong assumption that they would be eligible for the permit and not prohibited.

Well, maybe, but aside from the state legislator mentioned in the OP link who had pleaded guilty to a sexual assault and had to resign in disgrace because of its exposure, I think it's a statistically-fair assumption that his case probably purged all of the Idaho legislature of prohibited persons. That was the impetus for the proposal in any case. If there are other prohibited persons in state government, the proponents of the bill want the same process in effect to catch them that the general public has to live under. As much as I detest the permission slip system, I have no problem at all with holding government employees to the same standards as private citizens are held to. Do you have a problem with that?

Blues

 

[NavyLCDR]

I have no problem at all with holding government employees to the same standards as private citizens are held to. Do you have a problem with that?

Blues

I have no problem with that at all. I believe that every public official must be required to live under the exact same laws the general populace must abide by. I was merely stating that you said no legislators would be disarmed by having to obtain the permit. That I disagree with. I'll bet you there is more than one in office who has a disqualifying factor in their past and/or present.

 

[BluesStringer]

I have no problem with that at all. I believe that every public official must be required to live under the exact same laws the general populace must abide by. I was merely stating that you said no legislators would be disarmed by having to obtain the permit. That I disagree with. I'll bet you there is more than one in office who has a disqualifying factor in their past and/or present.

That just ain't right though Navy. They won't be disarmed by the proposed bill, they will simply be prevented from circumventing existing law because of the special treatment they're getting from the state by not having to comply with the permission slip system that catches everybody else. The bill, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with disarming anybody. It only seeks to equalize treatment between citizens and government employees. The whole prohibited person thing is a separate issue that, in Idaho if the bill passes at least, will apply to everyone in the state regardless of where they're employed.

I suppose you can assert that some other legislator(s) might be disarmed by requiring them to obtain a permit, but since they aren't going to exempt the whole state from the system, then the only way to make equal treatment the law is to repeal the exemption. If prohibited persons are serving in state government, then it isn't the new repeal of the exemption that disarms them, it's their own personal past or present violations of existing law that was being broken whether they're permission-slipped or not, right?

Blues

 

[Peggy Reist]

State Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, asked how long it took getting a concealed weapons permit, explaining he was worried lawmakers may be forced to leave their guns at home for an extended period of time while waiting for a permit, should Youngblood’s bill pass.

Well yeah. Just like everybody else. What's wrong with that? School board members? Seriously?

 

[NavyLCDR]

Why can't the elected officials just hide behind the no guns signs that they tell us will keep us safe?

 

[Pir8fan]

Actually, I'm in favor of removing every type of elected official.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Even giving them a permit immediately is still giving them special treatment. When you apply for a permit here in Idaho, it usually takes 3-4 weeks before you get a notice in the mail to come down and pick up your permit. They should have to go through the same process as any other person applying for a permit.

 

[sarge98597]

I would love to see a bill to eliminate congress & start over.