...of Victory in the morning: it smells like NAPALM!
Chalk not one, but TWO up for the Constitution, and chalk up two more dismal losses for the gun-grabbers.
Yesterday, the Oregon Senate voted down a draconian "No guns in Schools" bill, SB 1594. Guns are already illegal in schools, there was no point to the new law, other than it danced in the blood of the 3 OH schoolchildren, almost before they stopped their death throes. It would have dramatically expanded places, many of them unknown places, where licensed CHLs could not have had guns, and it would have given the Colleges permission to ignore the Oregon Court of Appeals ruling which says that State pre-emption is exactly that, and no lesser government than the State may write law to exclude CHLs.
The other victory was to pass, in a landslide vote, the House Bill 4045 allowing Sheriffs to keep the CHL database confidential, except for those who want their data outed. Only 5 lawmakers, all from the Soviet Socialist City of Portland, voted for the Bill.
Two victories in one day!
The Oregon Firearms Federation gets credit for the Paul Revere work on this one, NOT the NRA-ILA.
Politically speaking, this is what gun-grabber Sen. Ginny Burdick did: the Senate Bill and House Bill were both going to die in committee, a mutually-assured-destruction decision by the Senate President. The Oregon Legislature is in a "short session", where it has 30 days to get the job done, and the leaders of both chambers decided that the time-intensive gun bills would not be heard, so that budget matters would be heard.
Then along came the OH school shooting, and the gun-grabbing Burdick went to the (D)onk Senate President Peter Courtney of liberal Lane County and begged him to let her dance in the blood of the murdered OH kids. He gave in, so, with only 4 days left in the Session, and no budget decisions yet made, Senator Courtney agreed. The rest is history, and the gun-banning Burdick went down to defeat, with two members of her own party voting "No". Over in the House, the popular shield-the-Sheriffs law there went over big-time, but Sheriff Staton of Multnomah County, who was a Sergeant I worked for in my last assignment 9 years ago, has some serious work to do, since all of the Metro Representatives voted NOT to shield his issued CHLs, by far the most CHLs of any County.
Yep, the smell of that napalm and the fried gun-grab attempt is mighty fine on this late-winter morning.