General Categories > Laws and Legislation
Action Needed: State Wide Preemption - LB289
RLMoeller:
Jeremy is spot on. Personal stories make all the difference. One of our members actually made some great progress with Krist last evening. They spoke for a half hour and the call ended much better than it began.
Trump:
My email to Heath Mello. No response in 2 days and don't expect one since he's term limited.
Dear Senator Mello,
I am a constituent in your district and was wondering if you will be supporting LB289? I work in Papillion and need to travel there six days a week at 3:00 am. After the Andrea Kruger murder, I would like to carry my handgun to work for my protection as do not want to be a victim of stopping at a stop sign and being drug out of my vehicle and executed. Living in Omaha prevents me from doing so without jumping through hoops and costing me well over $200 to do so, or by locking my handgun unloaded in a case for the 1.4 miles to get me south of Q street. Why do my constitutional rights of defending myself end at the Omaha city limits? The Omaha Mayor and City Prosecutor both have gone on record stating Omaha's ordinance has done nothing to prevent gun violence and it never will. Was Nikko Jenkin's weapons registered with the city? Did he have the Omaha open carry permit in his wallet? Please support LB289 as is, which will stop making criminals of honest law abiding citizens who just want to protect themselves from the evil that lurks in our community.
Famous556:
Very well written trump!
bradhaas:
I just called Sen. Mello's office to give my opinion again and ask whether my emails were received. The lady I spoke with said my email was "starred for response." I can't wait.
Prior to reading the OWH article I actually hadn't realized Omaha's minimum age for possession of a handgun is 21 versus Nebraska's 18.
--- Quote ---Dropping the age to 18 would hamper Omaha’s efforts to combat criminal gangs and institute a “dangerous public policy,” Wells said.
“Frankly, the proposed changes arguably come across not so much as pro-gun, but pro-gang,” he wrote.
--- End quote ---
I can see where he's coming from... why wait to arrest a "gang member" until he actually commits a crime? Better to go ahead and put "gang members" behind bars ahead of time, for the crimes we all know they're going to commit in the future. After all, they're "gang members." They don't know how to do anything else, besides commit crime. Come to think of it, Omaha should probably make voting age 21 too, so "gang members" don't start affecting government.
Another point the anti-289 senators brought up repeatedly was that Omaha and Lincoln face problems that the rest of the state don't have. Well, why stop at city limits? I'm pretty sure that Districts 5, 11, and 13 in Omaha face problems that the rest of the city doesn't have. So maybe we should have handgun restrictions in those portions of Omaha only, the ones with high populations of "gang members."
(Does this forum have a sarcasm font?)
I'm a tiny bit surprised Sen. Chambers didn't jump all over that BS from Wells when Sen. Mello read it.
DanClrk51:
The cloture vote has failed! We fell one vote short of breaking Ernie's filibuster. The bill is now dead.
The results were: For cloture...32 (to end debate and vote to send to Select File)
Against Cloture...10
Not Voting...6
We needed 33 votes for cloture in order to end debate and move to a vote on whether to advance the bill to the next stage (Select File).
How the Senators voted:
Against Cloture: 10
Senator Campbell (GOP)
Senator Chambers (INDEPENDENT)
Senator Cook (DEM)
Senator Haar (DEM)
Senator Hadley (GOP)
Senator Hansen (DEM)
Senator Burke Harr (DEM)
Senator Howard (DEM)
Senator Krist (GOP)
Senator Sullivan (DEM)
Not Voting: 6
Senator Baker (GOP)
Senator Coash (GOP)
Senator Kolowski (DEM)
Senator Mello (DEM)
Senator Morfeld (DEM)
Senator Pansing-Brooks (DEM)
The senators that voted against cloture were primarily responsible for the death of this bill and those who didn't vote are also somewhat responsible for the death of the bill.
All others who voted for cloture were at least willing to give the bill more time and work in order to get something passed.
Voting for Cloture: 32
Senator Bloomfield (GOP)
Senator Bolz (DEM)
Senator Brasch (GOP)
Senator Craighead (GOP)
Senator Crawford (DEM)
Senator Davis (GOP)
Senator Ebke (GOP)
Senator Fox (GOP)
Senator Friesen (GOP)
Senator Garrett (GOP)
Senator Gloor (GOP)
Senator Groene (GOP)
Senator Hilkemann (GOP)
Senator Hughes (GOP)
Senator Johnson (GOP)
Senator Kintner (GOP)
Senator Kolterman (GOP)
Senator Kuehn (GOP)
Senator Larson (GOP)
Senator Lindstrom (GOP)
Senator McCollister (GOP)
Senator McCoy (GOP)
Senator Murante (GOP)
Senator Riepe (GOP)
Senator Scheer (GOP)
Senator Schilz (GOP)
Senator Schnoor (GOP)
Senator Seiler (GOP)
Senator Smith (GOP)
Senator Stinner (GOP)
Senator Watermeier (GOP)
Senator Williams (GOP)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version