Nebraska--Supporters Say Concealed Handguns Are Coming

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:D Senator Jeanne Combs of Milligan, as well as a couple of lobbyists for the NRA, say at least 33 of the 49 lawmakers will vote to stop filibusters on her bill. Thirty-three votes are the minimum needed to halt debate and move directly to a vote on advancing or passing legislation.

The measure provides a variety of qualifications for obtaining a concealed weapons permit. A permit would be good for five years and cost $100.

Concealed-carry legislation has failed to win enactment during some ten years of legislative consideration.

While it is subject to amendments, Combs and others want to prevent opponents from blocking votes on the bill’s advancement by proposing numerous changes.

To win passage, the bill must be advanced from two stages of debate and then win a vote on its final enactment. It then goes to Governor Dave Heineman. Proponents believe he would sign it.

In the 2006 election year, the measure has more than the usual political significance.
 
Good for Senator Combs. I hope the good people of Nebraska will at last be able to exercise their civil rights under the Second Amendment (bear arms means carry).
JT
 
There is one particular Senator in Nebraska who is an expert at using parlimentary procedure (amendments, fillibuster, etc.) to block certain bills, including the concealed carry bill. He is very smart and very experienced.

I may not agree with him, but I don't blame him; he is just using the established rules to block those bills that he doesn't agree with.

Senator Jeanne Combs of Milligan, as well as a couple of lobbyists for the NRA, say at least 33 of the 49 lawmakers will vote to stop filibusters on her bill. Thirty-three votes are the minimum needed to halt debate and move directly to a vote on advancing or passing legislation.
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Yeah, I've heard that before. To date, the other Nebraska legislators have been unable to get organized enough to resist a single Senator, who has the moxy -- and the intelligence -- to make the rest of them look foolish and disorganized.
 
We had a governor in TX named Ann Richards who did not beleive that people should have the right to carry a concealed handgun...the people fired her.
Think she was doing a Doritos commercial last time I saw her on Television.
 
The unicameral legislature in Nebraska is as much to blame for that state's lack of a decent CCW law as anything else. It takes 25 votes in the Unicameral to send a law to the Governors desk for signature or veto. But it takes 34 votes to override a Filibuster. CCW legislation has always come up a little short in this regard in the state of Nebraska.

I truly hope that this year is the year they are able to get that 34th vote!
 
We are trying to get rid of the one previously mentioned legislator (and others) who has been instrumental in stopping previous attempts to get concealed carry allowed here. Term limits were enacted by a majority vote of the people. Ernie, instead of bowing out gracefully and accepting the will of the majority of the people, has filed suit to get the term limit law thrown out.
Hate to say it, but I don't think it will pass this time either. Ernie and a couple of others will block it, not because those in favor of the bill are not organized, but because they can't convince the ones in the middle of the road that they don't need to be afraid of Ernie calling them a bunch of ignorant redneck racists for wanting the ability to protect themselves and their families.

bergie
 
Freedom is spreading like a warm fuzzy virus.

The holdouts in NE, KS, IA, WI, & Ill are getting squeezed from all sides like Han Solo in the trash compacter. :)
 
I posted in the wrong forum on this . It passed into the second round of debate. I dont know if I like it or not I might just be being picky about it, I aint sure. I think it might go this time sure are alot of new faces voting for it. Even my own Rep. voted in favor and she has always been a no vote on it. As for Ernie, what we need is a fat Harley ridin, leather wearin, beer drinkin, beard wearin counterweight to him. Hell I'm yer man:DThen at least we'd have both extremes in the building. :eek:
 
On a related matter, I've been quite disappointed with the Omaha World Herald's editorial against concealed carry. To put it in a nutshell, the Weird Herald is against it because an affirmative defense is presently available to the defendant (w/the burden of proof on the defendant) against the felony charge. I'm not sure that that I agree with the Herald's interpretation of the affirmative defense.

Oh yeah, I forgot the best part of the editorial. The Weird Herald pointed out that some study proved that it is safer for a victim to not resist an assailant. I'll interpret this assertion in the following manner: in other words, a woman who is about to be raped shouldn't resist; we certainly wouldn't want her to have the option of legally carrying a handgun to protect herself! Instead, the woman will be 'safer' and better off if she just allows herself to be raped without resisting.
 
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