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June 20, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n The Honorable Phil Berger, Senate President Pro Tempore Dear Senator Berger:<\/span><\/p>\n On behalf of Grass Roots North Carolina and its many supporters, please accept my thanks for the outstanding work done by you and Senate Republicans in passing Senate Bill 41, \u201cGuarantee 2nd Amend Freedom and Protections.\u201d Thanks to your efforts, leftist urban sheriffs can no longer obstruct handgun purchases, and churches which sponsor schools are better protected from violent sociopaths.<\/span><\/p>\n I confess, however, that I was taken aback when I heard you say the following:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have passed a substantial bill dealing with some concerns about the Second Amendment. We have done away with the pistol purchase permit which was the number one goal of many of the gun rights groups for a long period of time. <\/em>I just don\u2019t know if there is a need for us to delve into additional issues dealing with guns.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d <\/em>[Emphasis added]<\/span><\/p>\n Your perception of \u201cneed\u201d aside, I\u2019m sure you agree that restoration of constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms should not be rationed. Over the decades, Americans\u2019 rights \u2013 including the right to carry firearms for self-protection \u2013 have been steadily eroded. It was certainly not the Framers\u2019 intention that a governmental permission slip be required to carry firearms, concealed or otherwise. House Bill 189, \u201cFreedom to Carry NC,\u201d is intended to restore the Framers\u2019 ideals.<\/span><\/p>\n When you were Senate Minority Leader and I sat in your office, we lamented how the Democrat President Pro Tem of the Senate at the time, Marc Basnight, used his considerable power to crush free exercise of Second Amendment freedoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now you are in the same position, Senator Berger, giving you the opportunity to further contrast yourself with the left-leaning former President Pro Tem. Although HB 189 still resides in the House, comments like those above are not helpful in moving the bill. I strongly urge you to work with Speaker Tim Moore to ensure passage of HB 189.<\/span><\/p>\n As you will see in coming days, thousands of North Carolinians have already signed GRNC\u2019s petition for passage of HB 189. I strongly urge you to use the opportunity, created by a supermajority which gun voters helped you secure, to join the twenty-seven other states which have now adopted some form of permitless or \u201cconstitutional\u201d concealed carry by supporting passage of HB 189.<\/span><\/p>\n Armatissimi e liberissimi,*<\/span><\/p>\n President, Grass Roots North Carolina<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Executive Director, Rights Watch International<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Radio host, Guns, Politics and Freedom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n *<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 First spoken by Niccolo Machiavelli, the father of modern power politics, with reference to the universally armed and therefore unconquerable Swiss, Armatissimi e liberissimi means \u201cmost armed, most free.\u201d As an expression of the importance of the right to arms to freedom, it is GRNC\u2019s credo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grass Roots North Carolina Post Office Box 10665, Raleigh, NC 27605 \u00a0 June 20, 2023 The Honorable Phil Berger, Senate President Pro Tempore16 West Jones … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grnc-general","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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