With Indiana’s General Assembly session hitting high gear, legislators in The Hoosier State have introduced more than a dozen gun bills so far—some good, some bad.
Let’s hit a few highlights (or lowlights) in the Senate, starting with those proposals that are touted to be aimed at violent crime but are actually anti-gun measures. Senate Bill 27 requires that officers from a political subdivision’s law enforcement agency are present during a gun buyback program to dispose of guns, conduct serial number searches and record identifying information from gun sellers. As we’ve pointed out in the past, however, so-called “buybacks” have no effect on crime, so continuing them—with or without law enforcement present—is a waste of time and money.
“Given our estimated null findings, with 95 percent confidence, we can rule out decreases in firearm-related crime of greater than 1.3 percent during the year following a buyback,” a 2022 study concluded. “Using data from the National Vital Statistics System, we also find no evidence that GBPs reduce suicides or homicides where a firearm was involved.”
Senate Bill 152 is another bad one that expands the places where lawful gun owners are banned from carrying a firearm for self-defense. Specifically, it would prohibit a person from carrying a firearm near a polling entrance, at the poll areas where voters congregate and the room where ballots are counted.
Another anti-gun measure, Senate Bill 153, would outlaw possession of a privately made firearm. Of course, making firearms at home has been common since the founding of our nation, and laws that forbid it are targeting hobbyists, not violent criminals.
Yet another punitive measure, Senate Bill 247 is basically a “universal” background check bill that greatly restricts private sales of firearms. If passed, all firearm transfers would have to be made through a licensed gun dealer after a federal background check. That is, of course, all legal gun sales, as criminals would continue stealing guns and buying them from other criminals on the street and not be affected by the measure. That measure would also require a retail dealer to display a sign with language stating that failing to secure a firearm against unauthorized access poses a safety risk to children—a feel-good move that at least gives the bill’s author something to brag about.
On the positive side, Senate Bill 139 would create a path for some felons to have their right to keep and bear arms restored if their charge is on track to be expunged and if a court finds they are not a danger to the public. Too often, those convicted of crimes have their rights taken away for life, with no avenue for ever getting those rights restored.
Another positive measure, Senate Bill 204, would allow lobbyists to carry a handgun inside the state capitol and its property if they undergo training and licensing requirements. While that’s a good thing, it would have been better to allow lawful citizens to do so, since licensed concealed carriers are among the most law-abiding segments of society.
Lastly, Senate Bill 280 would permit deer hunting rifles to be used on public property during hunting season, removing the current rifle cartridge and case length limitations.
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as long as we can carry on the infield at the tony hulman classic.
“…and record identifying information from gun sellers”
I thought those turn-ins were supposed to be anonymous?
Precisely what I was thinking. That provision ensures that no felons will be turning in crime guns.
Democrats call that “progress”.
RE: “Another anti-gun measure, Senate Bill 153, would outlaw possession of a privately made firearm. Of course, making firearms at home has been common since the founding of our nation, and laws that forbid it are targeting hobbyists, not violent criminals.”
Since when did the DIY crowd become a public enemy? Leave it to a deranged whips and chains Gun Control zealot to gum up all forms of Freedom. It’s really all about the insane desire to Control; inherent with an agenda History Confirms is Rooted in Racism and Genocide.
Re:Indiana. This bs is likely dims. They wield little power in Indiana. We are likely moving to Hoosier land in the near future. Still a helluva lot better than Ill annoy or most border states.
RINOs in Indiana passed red flag laws there.
RINOs in Ohio like our Governor always stab us in the back and fail to pass a lot of meaningful legislation. We’re very lucky to get what we have over here.
Except for the red flag laws IN is pretty good.
And I’m pretty sure the red flag laws we have are mostly useless at this point anyway.
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Since when did the DIY crowd become a public enemy?
A long time ago, well back into the 1800’s. Lenin articulated it in great detail in the early 1900’s.
Long story short: DIY can’t be controlled. Everything they do is about control, therefore they wish to criminalize and deny you any skill or [thing] that makes you harder to control.
It’s why they destroyed education starting, in earnest, in the 1950’s which is why college entrance scores fell off a cliff in the mid 1960’s and nose dived until the mid-1970’s. Which. by the by, is why the re-jiggered the SAT scoring system in the mid-1970’s to cover up the catastrophe that education had become in the past decade.
Painful as it is for most older people these days, if you graduated high school 1965 or later, your education is crap compared to those who graduated in 1963 or earlier. This is exactly how I end up with geniuses telling me that they got a better education than any kids these days while also arguing that ratios are not a thing, which they know because they got such a great education, particularly in math.
It’s all quite Gramscian.
Ive long thought that education is one of the two most important fronts in the struggle against Frankfort school Marxism and it’s modern decendents. Free speech being the other. The 1984 style totalitarianism the progs want so despirately cannot be achieved, much less sustained, without iron control of what people hear and say.
I would generally agree in terms of strategy, though their work against free speech can often be classed within tactics.
Ive long thought that education is one of the two most important fronts in the struggle against Frankfort school Marxism and it’s modern decendents.
Given that they all follow Gramsci’s advice, you are 100% correct.
In a nutshell, his idea is that most societies are not generally amenable to Communism on a cultural level because they contain mechanisms to transmit information from one generation to the next and this information is philosophically opposed to Communism. This produces what he referred to as Cultural Hegemony, and that hegemony has to be broken before Communism can infiltrate in a meaningful way.
Gramsci identified several pillars of cultural hegemony; Politics, Family, Education, Media, Religion, Law and the Arts.
He also pointed out that in order to win, one only has to take over one of these. education, and then wait for awhile while the system is altered to something more amenable to Communist thinking. Education is the best target because all the rest of the pillars are downstream from the educational system. Control education and eventually you control everything. Every priest, lawyer, judge, politician, artist or journalist was a kid in school at some point.
This is an overarching strategy and they’ve been working on it since the 1920’s and they’ve refined it quite a bit over time, particularly after The Prison Notebooks went wide in several languages other than English.
While Gramsci’s influence can be detected by the beginning of WWII, it doesn’t really kick off hard until after the war is over. Generally, I peg it coming fully online around 1958 and spreading widely enough to be really obviously noticeable in the macro in 1965. It will get worse post-1965 as the Cultural Exchange Program with the Soviets ramps up. See Yuri Bezmenov’s explanation of that.
All that said, it was for many years less effective in the hinterlands. Rural areas were harder for this to penetrate simply as a logistical matter. As society has become more and more urban over time (a reversal of 80% rural in 1900 to 80% urban by 2000) this strategy has gained in efficiency to the point that it has captured other supra-educational institutions like accreditation systems.
Ultimately, this isn’t hard to defeat once it’s been noticed. The fact that it’s not an area of direct attack for the Right is ~50% of the reason I criticize them as much as I do. I can tell you in five paragraphs, or a few minutes of actual talking, exactly how to take back the educational system in a manner which you basically cannot lose. I’ve been promoting that for 20 years since I figured this out in high school.
Free speech being the other.
This depends on which of them you talk to. For Tankies and the like you’re absolutely correct because authoritarians gonna authoritarian. They are quite open about it.
It’s the other vectors that are more worrisome IMHO.
For the more subtle folks, like Freire, they figured this would die off if you correctly altered the educational system. Like Lenin, they assumed that man is entirely pliable if you control the right levers and their aim is not to “attack free speech” but to make free speech impossible, a la 1984. You can’t speak freely about things you have no words to describe. In fact, you can’t even think about those things.
This is where you start to get many of the current concepts in a schema like “Social Emotional Learning”.
The reality is that the Left really does live up to some of its own statements. In this case they do “respect the diversity of tactics” and they have launched a multipronged attack on free speech. One takes a lot longer than the other, though it’s more effective long term.
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The root of everything is the educational system and it’s mostly NOT the university system because that system is a rational actor in an irrational system. It’s simply responding to inputs and incentives.
Your real problem is K-12 and that’s also where you solution lies. Overturning the Left’s entire apple cart is quite simple once you realize this and act on it.
Some extra pressure on the university system will accelerate the entire process from 20-25 years to <10.
Why Congress Needs To Swiftly Pass Concealed-Carry Reciprocity.
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SCOTUS To Decide If Parents Can Reject LGBT Brainwashing For Their Children.
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Kinda strange how anti-gun bills are all basically the same no matter where they’re introduced, eh? SB152 in this article being an example.
Oh well, gotta defend oUr dEmOcraCy, I guess.
In CO, SB25-003 has advanced. As before, I suggest paying attention for version of this cropping up near you.
I suspect it will pass, not just because of how it was introduced (in the Senate in this instance) but also because, so far as I can tell, none of the gun-rights orgs have a clue what the Bill is actually designed to do. They’re too busy blathering about how the Lefties don’t understand guns.
Oh, they understand just fine. What you see as “unintended outcomes” are the goal. Ultimately they want to drive every single independent gun store out of business so that guns are sold by only a few large companies which are comparatively easy to regulate.
Basically like the ACA did to the medical system.
80 days.
“this is gonna be great!” -flounder
Commie cocksuckers!
Comment of the day! Accurate and to the point.
“Indiana wants me…
…but I can’t go back there…”
Indiana doesnt require gun “registration”. So, EXACTLY, how are they going to know if you sold a gun thats not registered anywhere to someone thats not required to register it either???