Brady Campaign: Don't Change Hawaii's Strong Gun Laws
WASHINGTON -- The Brady Center filed a brief Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii urging the court to dismiss a challenge to Hawaii’s strong gun laws restricting the carrying of loaded guns in public.
“Hawaii’s strong gun laws protect families from the severe danger of loaded guns in public,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project. “We urge the court to follow more than a dozen other courts around the nation in recognizing that there is no right to carry loaded guns in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.”
The lawsuit, Baker v. Kealoha, challenges Hawaii gun laws limiting public carrying of loaded guns to “exceptional case[s]” because of the severe risks posed by guns in public. The Brady Center’s brief urges the court to dismiss the lawsuit, citing legal rulings from around the nation that the Second Amendment is limited to a narrow right to possess guns in the home for self-defense and does not grant a right to carry loaded guns in public.
The Brady Center’s brief cites studies showing that guns in public expose all members of society to great risks, as guns are used far more often to kill and wound innocent victims than to kill and wound criminals, and guns are also used far more often to intimidate and threaten than they are used to thwart crimes.
The Brady Center’s brief also cites data showing that Hawaii’s strong gun laws have helped Hawaii achieve the lowest gun death rate in the nation, less than a third the national average.
The Brady Center is being represented by attorneys with the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project; Mark M. Murakami of Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert in Honolulu and; Jonathan Diesenhaus from Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.
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Convited Felons appear to be some of the left's most dedicated supporters.Them and dead people vote Democrat in higher numbers than other groups.
The Brady Campaign
Making Statistics One Defenseless Victim at a Time
The Brady Camp, and anti gun nuts in general, are creating dead, beaten and raped victims every day in this country. They do this by convincing YOU that by YOU not carrying a gun to defend yourself that somehow you are contributing to reducing crime. But, are YOU a criminal? If YOU carried a gun would you suddenly lose your mind and go on a killing rampage?
The Brady camp knows that there are violent criminals out there. And they know if these criminals somehow target YOUR family like they do so many others in this country that YOU will be defenseless by listening to their rhetoric and their false statistics.
Are YOU naive enough and ignorant enough to give YOUR life up, and your families lives up, to some crack head criminal who doesn't care in the least if he bashes in your sons skull or rapes your daughter and butchers her afterward....just to win points with the Brady camp nuts?
Is YOUR family so worthless to you that you will let some man like Paul Helmke tell YOU that you can't be trusted with a tool to defend your family from these predators?
Why do you let Brady tell you how YOU will behave if you own a gun? Why do you let them allow YOU to let YOUR family be unprotected just so THEY can spew out feel good rhetoric so even bigger idiots than you will continue to support them?
What does Brady lose or gain if YOU listen to their idiocy and YOUR wife is raped when she could have saved herself by simply having a gun ?
See what happens when a woman has a gun? See this video: Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun No gun = a raped woman. Gun = unraped woman and a dead ass rapist.
No one wants to admit that the Brady camp MAKES dead victims. They CREATE raped women. They FACILITATE defenseless prey who are beaten, raped, robbed, stabbed, shot....murdered.
And they do it because YOU let them because YOU are too much of a hive mind drone that you can't think and reason for yourself. Do you think Paul Helke gives a rats rear about YOUR wife...YOUR son...YOUR daughter? No...he doesnt.
All the Brady Camp cares about is making sure YOU are DEFENSELESS. To them if you are murdered...if your wife is savagely raped and beaten to death....if you son is ripped apart by some lunatic with a knife, all Brady sees is that you are one more statistic. Gun rights groups are fighting for YOUR RIGHT to DEFEND yourself even if YOU don't presently understand that fact. Gun rights advocates want YOU to have the POWER to PROTECT yourself...your wife...your daughters and your sons...even if you cant accept that fact.
You may call us gun nuts. You may think we are paranoid. But the fact is that there are millions of defenseless victims in the USA every year.
Will your wife be one of them tomorrow? Will your family? You may not think so but crime happens every day...and it happens to someone just like you and me. Will YOU be next? And if you are can you do anything to stop it? Honestly?
What I find amazing is that some of the most vocal supporters of gun control in congress are themselves holders of concealed weapons permits. Senator Feinstein of California is one that comes to mind.Both the Senator and her husband have concealed weapons permits, the only two that San Francisco issued in a ten year period. Feinstein is one of the more rabid anti gun nuts around.
Think thats bad? Check this one out...
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A Bloomberg anti-gun mayor is charged with carrying weapon
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/bloomberg-anti-gun-mayor-is-charged-with-carrying/43999/
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Talk about an ephing hypocrite.
Nancy Pelosi on the other hand,depends on just being plain ugly to avoid rape.
Here goes again.
Step 1: Brady Campaign posts ridiculous essay about guns.
Step 2: Posters use facts and FBI stats to totally blow the Brady narrative out of the water.
Step 3: We all make fun of how small the Brady Campaign is.
(someplace in there a poster who cant tell the difference between a rifle and a shotgun accuses people of wanting to own nukes)
Brady certainly has no clue just how irrelevant it has become and what a joke it is in the eyes of most normal people who can see thru the bull@@@@ rhetoric.
Theyve lost the concealed carry battle very rapidly once American citizens decided to wake up and realize that these antigun nuts have been 100% WRONG on every point of relevance, including the preposterous fallacy that if you take the weapon the criminal will stop killing and raping.
"guns are also used far more often to intimidate and threaten than they are used to thwart crimes"
This statement is completely skewed. it should read, "guns are used far more often to intimidate and threaten criminals, than they are used in crimes" One thing is clear the Brady Campaign needs an education.
The problem is not their knowledge, it's their motives.
Do guns make us safe?
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