| ARE HAYWOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT SNUBBING THE LAW-ABIDING? |
What started as a proposed ordinance to ban ALL open and conceal carry has resulted in some potential backpedalling by Haywood County’s commissioners.
Last week’s county commission meeting to discuss this proposed ordinance was a HUGE victory for gun owners like yourselves. Not only did nearly 400 gun rights activists pack the meeting and let themselves be heard, but the county has now announced that “The Haywood County Board of Commissioners will not take any action at their regularly scheduled meeting of Monday, April 4, 2016 on the proposed ordinances for Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Displaying of Firearms …”
Scorched by hundreds of angry voter contacts, the Haywood County manager last week attempted to justify the commission’s actions as an attempt to bring the county’s 1995 ban on concealed carry in parks into compliance with changes in the law. In reality, the commission attempted to manipulate statutory definitions to continue gun bands which are no longer legal.
In addition to banning open carry and concealed carry in all county buildings, their proposed changes would reclassify Allen’s Creek Park as a “recreational facility” and ban guns throughout the park in violation of recent changes which GRNC made that more narrowly define recreational facility to only athletic fields during scheduled events, swimming pools, and gymnasiums.
GRNC president Paul Valone was the first to address the commission. In addition to noting that their parks restrictions were illegal and would result in a lawsuit which they could not win, he pointed out that just because they had had restrictions since 1995 in other county facilities didn’t mean they should continue those restrictions.
Haywood County is slow to learn what twelve other North Carolina counties have discovered: that reducing restriction on the lawful concealed carry of firearms helps save lives and keep citizens safe. Despite what the naysayers would have us believe (more on them in a minute), county governments like that in Haywood County are being put on notice that law-abiding citizens will not tolerate being disarmed for their so-called protection.
The next meeting of the Haywood County Commissioners is tomorrow (Monday) evening, and we strongly encourage our members to remain vocal about their opposition to this proposed ordinance. These politicians need to be told, in no uncertain terms, that enacting these sorts of restrictive ordinances (especially ones that may put them in violation of state law) will have consequences at the polls and in the courts.
And speaking of the naysayers … we thought you should also know that the astroturf group North Carolinians Against Gun Violence (a wholly owned subsidiary of Michael Bloomberg) had the audacity to plagiarize GRNC’s March 26 alert and calling for its members to attend the meeting. The evidence of this group’s ineptitude was clear: when asked by one of the speakers addressing the commission for a show of hands of all who supported the proposed gun ban, none of the attendees at last week’s meeting identified themselves as a member of this shady organization. We know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this simply proves that astroturf will never equate to real grass roots support.
| IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED! |
- EMAIL THE HAYWOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Urge them to scrap the gun-ban ordinance altogether. Below, find a copy/paste email list, and under ‘Deliver This Message,’ you’ll find a copy/paste email message to send.
Contact list: markswanger@bellsouth.net; kirk@jwklaw.net; lkensley@bellsouth.net; sorrells@cbvnol.com; billupton@bellsouth.net
- Let North Carolinians Against Gun Violence know that plagiarism is stooping to a new low, even for them. We suggest leaving them a polite note on their Facebook page encouraging them to come up with their own material for alerts to their “supporters.” Something short and sweet like “Hey gun grabbers, can you please stop plagiarizing Grass Roots North Carolina when you send alerts to your “supporters?”
DELIVER THIS MESSAGE
Suggested Subject: “Scrap the Gun Ban in Haywood County”
Dear Commissioners:
Respectfully,
| VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! |
As you know, GRNC is an all volunteer force. As such, we are looking for volunteers in a couple of areas:
- WEB DEVELOPMENT
Experience in web development to include HTML, CSS & Java Scripting. If interested, contact GRNC President using the following contact form: http://www.grnc.org/contact
- ALERT WRITING
Solid writing skills, ability to translate legal, political, technical and firearms jargon into layman’s terms and make the public care about the issue. Ability to manipulate HTML style emails on the code level is a nice to have. If interested, please contact GRNC using this e-mail address: alert@grnc.org
If you have these skills, you can help the Second Amendment fight by enhancing and expanding GRNC’s presence, ensuring our message is received broadly in these modern times.
Don’t let your talents go to waste, as you could be the difference between gun-rights advancements and gun-rights losses.
Be the person who says, “I did something!” Instead of the person who says, “I should have done something.”
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