SecondAmendmentStudents
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I spoke with the Chief of SJPD yesterday about this. There will be a couple of public "education and information meeting" from 6:30to 7:30:
7/8/2008 @ South Jordan Community Center (10778 S. Redwood Rd)
7/22/2008@ Gale Center of History and Culture (10300 S. Beckstead Lane)
In my opinion, thishasa feel of "come let the ruling class tell you poor dumb shmucks why you should go along with what we say," but I suppose I should be glad that they didn't just vote it throughduring the first City Council meeting and that we'll be given a chance to attend the "education and information meeting."
It also irritates me that the first time we'll be able to see the proposed ordinance will be at that meeting. It doesn't give one much time to compose well-reasoned arguments or thoroughly analyze the proposal. But then againsince it's not a "public comment" period (see preceding paragraph), maybe they don't much care about our well-reasoned arguments and thorough analysis.
While on the phone with the chief I asked him, "Do you know of any law that would be violated by Open Carry of a firearm?" I was trying to explore if he intended to pursue the 'disturbing the peace' route, and wanted to let him know that there might be lawfully-armed citizens carrying their weapons openly around South Jordan (in the hopes that they won't over-react). After a significant pause, he said, "No" and I left it at that.
I spoke with a City Council member earlier and got the impression that paintball guns will be exempt from this new draft of the ordinance. I imagine it will focus mostly on AirSoft, and maybe BB or pellet guns. 'Course I won't know until Tuesday.
Anyways, like I've said before, I think this reinforces the societal prejudice against armed citizens and I plan to oppose it and would be happy to have any and all support that anyone can offer.
I spoke with the Chief of SJPD yesterday about this. There will be a couple of public "education and information meeting" from 6:30to 7:30:
7/8/2008 @ South Jordan Community Center (10778 S. Redwood Rd)
7/22/2008@ Gale Center of History and Culture (10300 S. Beckstead Lane)
In my opinion, thishasa feel of "come let the ruling class tell you poor dumb shmucks why you should go along with what we say," but I suppose I should be glad that they didn't just vote it throughduring the first City Council meeting and that we'll be given a chance to attend the "education and information meeting."
It also irritates me that the first time we'll be able to see the proposed ordinance will be at that meeting. It doesn't give one much time to compose well-reasoned arguments or thoroughly analyze the proposal. But then againsince it's not a "public comment" period (see preceding paragraph), maybe they don't much care about our well-reasoned arguments and thorough analysis.
While on the phone with the chief I asked him, "Do you know of any law that would be violated by Open Carry of a firearm?" I was trying to explore if he intended to pursue the 'disturbing the peace' route, and wanted to let him know that there might be lawfully-armed citizens carrying their weapons openly around South Jordan (in the hopes that they won't over-react). After a significant pause, he said, "No" and I left it at that.
I spoke with a City Council member earlier and got the impression that paintball guns will be exempt from this new draft of the ordinance. I imagine it will focus mostly on AirSoft, and maybe BB or pellet guns. 'Course I won't know until Tuesday.
Anyways, like I've said before, I think this reinforces the societal prejudice against armed citizens and I plan to oppose it and would be happy to have any and all support that anyone can offer.