Posted: 6/12/2021 11:59:31 AM EDT
[#2]
Quote History Quoted: Metro has already been corrected numerous times. Nothing changes. They wait a while and another violation pops up.
Actually, the same happens across the state. But, really, why shouldn't these banana republic like dictators carry out these communist attacks? They are never held accountable. They are never punished.
These leaders KNOW what they are doing. This is ALL easily avoided. These leaders, from managers in organizations, to mayors, county judge executives, and various types of councils belong in prisons for very long times. Each of the organizations that breech the gun law rights should be fined tens of millions of dollars. This is not some little meaningless case of one person (a criminal) accidentally killed. This is an ongoing systemic violation of THE most basic of all rights, that of self preservation of one's own life, and each situation affects tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people in the state.
But, what is the state doing about it? What is the federal government doing about it? NOTHING! Frankly, with this level of real social injustice in this nation, I just don't care about much else. View Quote Over the years, KC3 has investigated and reversed literally hundreds of these things. 95% of them have been fixed, once we become aware of them. A few remain, unfixed. I am convinced that there are hundreds more that we haven't discovered yet. We fight what we can and when we can't convince them to comply, we go to court but we can't sue everybody. We haven't the funds or the manpower. We pursue the ones where we feel have the best chance for victory. Prior to 2013, the law only covered city and county government. Now it encompasses almost all public entities. I respect and share your passion on this issue, but I must respectfully disagree with your conclusions. It is my judgment from going through this over and over that it is due to ignorance, arrogance and incompetence of local officials. I would love to have stricter penalties for violations but even more, I would like to have some training of these officials. Newly elected officials must undergo training by the Ky. Dept. of Local Government. There is no mention of Chapter 65 of the KRS in that training. They are taught about records retention, open meetings law, finance law and how to properly write and pass an ordinance, but not one word about the preemption of firearms regulation. Many of them have never heard of the word "preemption". Penalties sound like a great solution, but who would you get to enforce and prosecute them? Another local official? With a local judge? No thanks.
Our current preemption statute, KRS 65.870 was modeled after a Florida statute. Florida was having the same problems that we have, local government ignoring the state preemption law. Their version of the statute called for fines of $50,000 for the city or county that violated the statute and $5,000 fine for the local officials involved. They are not allowed to use public money to defend themselves in court. That sounds great, but in actual practice, it hasn't worked out. The first time those fines were attempted, the courts ruled them invalid and refused to impose them on any local government or official. We wanted to have those penalties written into our law but the General Assembly felt they were too punitive and they said to try our present law for a few years and if they won't comply, come back and we'll fix it. Well, the people that made that promise are long gone and the new ones say, "We fixed that 10 years ago". It isn't fixed, but in all honesty it is miles better than what we had before. They used to just laugh at us when we called about it. Now most of them try to do their best. Some, a small minority, are snakes in the grass. I can deal with them but it is really hard to deal with the ones that don't understand and can't understand what the law says or what the words mean and the ones that don't want to comply because they are afraid they will be seen as "backing down". It's mostly ignorance, arrogance and incompetence.
Right now, the one single thing I'd like to see is a very simple thing. I'd like to see our Ky Attorney General issue three opinions on existing laws. He has had requests for these opinion for over one year, one of them he got the from the Beshear administration. Andy didn't want to answer the question and ignored it for the last 18 months of his term in that office, now Cameron is ignoring that one and two more that were submitted for me by a State Senator. If we could get a written opinion from the AG on those three things we could turn that 95% that I mentioned earlier into 99%. The issue of gun possession and gun control is controversial. Politicians don't like to take stands on controversial issues. There is no down side to ignoring the issue. Gun owners won't demand that they do so. If gun owners would expend 1% of the effort that the gun grabbers expend there would be no controversy. It would be settled. Gun owners want the government to solve the problem, just like liberals want the government to solve the problem. That solution requires some effort.
|
|