January
2006
Doyle’s Quick Draw Veto Pen shoots down GOP Conceal Carry bill
So some were wondering if Governor Jim Doyle would cave into the Republican controlled legislature on this one.
Local police associations across the state were nearly united in their opposition to anyone with a permit being able to pack heat just about anywhere they wanted. In a move clearly aimed at reminding law enforcement that he’s their guy, Doyle said, “I am proud to stand with the overwhelming majority of law enforcement throughout Wisconsin who oppose this legislation.”
So take that Walker and Green.
It was a terrible bill from the start. It would have allowed “hidden guns at shopping malls, concerts, banks, playgrounds, and even school zones, putting our kids and communities at risk.” Now most moral people would ask who would want to make it legal for ordinary citizens to carry concealed guns in these sorts of places. Why it’s the NRA of course — long time campaign boosters for Republican candidates — those same candidates turned legislators who put forward this morally corrupt, anti-family bill.
But Doyle didn’t stop there. He made it clear that the GOP led push for guns on playgrounds and shopping malls was the wrong bill at the wrong time when he said,
the bill does not create a single job, help a single Wisconsin citizen afford health care, or improve schools for a single Wisconsin child. The Legislature should spend more time trying to get jobs into our communities instead of more guns. It is time for them to start addressing the priorities of hardworking Wisconsin families – like making heath care and heating bills more affordable, ensuring every student who is willing to work for it can attend college, and creating good, family-supporting jobs.
Jim McGuigan
Jim McGuigan, Watchdogging Wisconsin
This is a fine example of the liberal’s selective respect to the Constitution of the United States. As always, the liberal is only interested in those areas of the constitution that is of interest to them, while I fight to defend the constitution in its entirety. Now enjoy your cool-aid liberal, and drink while you listen to your faltering Air America.
A fine example of why Kool-aid can be very dangerous in the wrong hands, and why Kool-aid training courses should be a prerequisite to carrying concealed mix.
Squirrel, no one’s trying to take your gun away. Senate Bill 403 says throughout that a concealed carry permit holders right to carry their concealed weapon outweighs the rights of non-permit holders in many facets of life in Wisconsin. And that includes your home — a person would be allowed to conceal a weapon in your home unless you tell them they can’t. The burden in the workplace, the home, public places is on the nonpermit holders, not on the permit holder. SB 403 is lunacy, which shouldn’t surprise anyone because the NRA wrote it.
We all know that the concerns of, say, Superior Wisconsin and Milwaukee and Racine are different. In the very least, an exception for Milwaukee should have been written into the bill. You could conceal your weapon in Milwaukee, but in Milwaukee County you still will not have the right to shoot the thing.
Not that it matters to pols from both sides of the aisle in Madison. The NRA is holding their national convention here in Milwaukee; if Doyle’s veto is overridden, supporters of concealed carry can expect big payoffs to their reelection campaign funds.