Gun control commando and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg,
co-founder of
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
and similar enterprises, enjoys plenty of support
amongst Utah's wanna-bee elitists. Bask in some of their
outrageous quotes below. If you are aware of a gun
control quote by any Utah politician, bureaucrat, or civics
snob, please email
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Utah
governor Gary "Fudd" Herbert Backs Magazine Restrictions
Shared on 10/7/2019
Interviewer: "What of magazine size [for firearms]?"
Gary Herbert: "I don’t know that there’s any
reason to have anything, you know, more than a typical seven-
or nine-shot magazine... I don't have a problem with
restricting magazines. Again, I think once you get
past a typical size of what you do when you go out hunting,
you’re probably having excess baggage you don’t need."
Interviewer: "That puts you further along on this than a
lot of Republicans."
Gary Herbert: "Well, again, I'm probably further along
than a lot of Republicans on a number of things...."
Click
here to listen for yourself. The audio clip
source is "Utah
Gov. on Romney’s Trump Endorsement Flip: 'Things Have Changed',"
by Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico, Feb. 24, 2018.
To gun control zealots like Herbert, firearms are only useful
for government-sponsored and -directed recreational hunting.
The thought of ever needing to utilize firearms to resist a
tyrannical regime, or even foreign invading power, is
repugnant to his boot-licking world view.
Herbert has also become accustomed to his luxurious,
tax-subsidized lifestyle. For example, he and his family
enjoy
24-hour "year round" taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards (do
his bodyguards limit their magazine capacity to 7 or 9
rounds?). The Herbert family has even
been caught grotesquely abusing those public services to
intimidate innocent Utahans.
Source: "Improper
use of governor's security team," Opinion Editorial,
Daily Herald, Sep. 19, 2010.
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As an elitist, career
politician, Herbert has no appreciation of the life-and-death
threats faced by normal Utahans who are unable to pilfer other
taxpayers to enjoy 24-hour security teams for their families.
He cannot fathom being forced to personally fire a weapon, let alone more
than 7 or 9 rounds, at multiple assailants who are
violently invading his home
— or otherwise seeking to harm him and
those he cares about.
Herbert's long, callous track record of abusing gun owners
includes the following:
* Publicly endorsed
background checks for BB guns (yes, you read that
correctly).
* Vetoed HB 76 (Carry "Unloaded" Firearms Concealed) in 2013,
worked with his gun control protege Spencer Cox to secretly
undermine the effort to override his veto, and
repeatedly torpedoed subsequent "constitutional carry"
efforts.
*
Pandered
shamelessly to former federal regime president Barack Obama,
a notorious abuser of innocent gun owners.
* Received a -100% (that's minus) on the
2016 Utah Government Corruption Report.
Utah's governor is a embarrassing, pathetic tyrant and
childish fool who lacks all respect for your natural right to
keep and bear arms. UT Gun Rights therefore dubs him
Gary "Fudd" Herbert.
According to
UrbanDictionary.com, "Fudd" is defined as follows:
"Slang term for a 'casual' gun owner; eg; a person who
typically only owns guns for hunting or shotgun sports and
does not truly believe in the true premise of the second
amendment. These people also generally treat owners/users of
so called 'non sporting' firearms like handguns or
semiautomatic rifles with unwarranted scorn or contempt."
Shhh!! Gary "Fudd" Herbert is hunting wabbits.
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Mormon
Corporation President Russell Nelson A-Buzz for
Gun Control
Shared on 9/2/2019
"I know your hearts are heavy, as are [wife] Wendy’s
and mine, as we contemplate those ruthless killings in Florida
last week. I think of Alaina Petty, a 14-year-old
Latter-day Saint whose life was snuffed out by that sniper’s
bullet. It’s natural for you and others to say: How could God
allow things like that to happen? Well, God allows us to have
our agency, and men have passed laws that allow guns
to go to people who shouldn’t have them."
[bold added]
— Russell Nelson, then newly-appointed
President and Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints
("Mormons")
corporation.
Quote source: "U.S.
gun laws fall short, implies new Mormon church President
Russell Nelson," by David Noyce, Salt Lake Tribune,
Feb. 24, 2018.
What "laws" might Nelson be referring to? Would they
include the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (i.e.
"Bill of Rights")? Perhaps the Mormon Corporation's
internal policies can provide additional insight?
In 2000, the Mormon Corporation lobbyied, via its corporate
subsidiary,
Brigham Young University (where
firearms are also prohibited),
for the so-called "Utah Safe To Learn, Safe to
Worship Initiative." It failed abysmally.
Undeterred by public opinion, Mormon Corporate lobbyists then
pressed Utah statutators (i.e. "legislators") to insert gun
control language in Senate Bill (SB) 108 in 2003, which
allowed churches to ban guns on their premises
without posting any standard public warnings required of other
private property owners (i.e. signage, verbal
warnings). Under SB 108, religious corporations could
merely file a notification annually to the Utah Bureau of
Criminal Identification (BCI) website to ban firearms on their
property in Utah.
Source: "Identifying
Political Popery: A Decade of Reflection,"
by Daniel
Newby, Helmsman Society, Nov. 24, 2005.
Since SB 108's passage in 2003, the Mormon Corporation has
consistently "notified BCI of their intent to prohibit firearms in their
'houses of worship' in Utah". It is currently one
of only two religious corporations in Utah to do so.
Source: BCI's "Houses
of Worship Prohibiting Firearms on Premises" page.
On January 16, 2004, the Mormon Corporation
issued a letter informing all local leaders that firearms
in Utah were prohibited.
And in August of this year (2019), the Mormon Corporation further
tightened its defenseless noose around visitors to
all properties worldwide, by
altering its official policy to read:
"With the exception of current law enforcement officers, the
carrying of lethal weapons on Church property, concealed or
otherwise, is prohibited."
Sources:
Handbook 2: Administering the Church, and "LDS
Church makes it clear: No guns in its meetinghouses", by
Kathy Stephenson and Peggy Fletcher Stack, Aug. 26, 2019.
No further definition is provided
as to what constitutes a "lethal weapon." What about
tasers, knives (folding or fixed blade),
scissors, baseball bats, screwdrivers, containers of gasoline,
lumber, rocks, glass containers, motorized vehicles, pencils
and pens, bows and arrows, and similar items? Nearly any
object could potentially be considered "lethal" by a triggered
Mormon corporate paid or lay officer.
How must Mormon members feel knowing their virtuous and
honorable act of bearing arms for defense of self, family, and
other church members against murderous attacks is held in
contempt by their own leaders? How do they
reconcile their profound lack of protection with the armed
security agents who accompany top Mormon Corporation officers
like Russell Nelson?
For more information, see, "Armed
Texan Church Members Stop Shooter: Lessons for Disarmed Utah
Mormons*".
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Statutator
David Hinkins Flies Like a Bee & Stings Like a Butterfly
Shared on 2/11/2016
"[Senate] President [Wayne Niederhauser] called me in
and said he's had some people with concerns about it [Hinkin's
bill, SB 97]...
"I have no idea [who those people were]. I said, 'OK, well,
if that's the will of the [senate], OK, I'll just go ahead and
hold it this year.'
"The governor already said he'd veto it anyway and if I
didn't get two-thirds vote, there's no sense going
through all the hassle. So I'll just sit on it."
[bold added]
— David Hinkins, senate statutator, who
promptly announced he is killing his own bill,
SB 97: Carry "Unloaded" Firearms Concealed, without a
fight.
Quote source: "Contentious
gun bill won’t appear in 2016 session," by Robert Gehrke,
Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 10, 2016.
Senate bully Wayne Niederhauser called Hinkins to a secret
meeting, where he was pressured to abandon his bill. Thus
far, the only substantive information revealed regarding the
people who supposedly approached Niederhauser "with concerns"
was the following
— somewhat cryptic
— statement provided by Hinkins:
"Niederhauser said he was contacted by community and business
leaders. It was not, he said, representatives of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [i.e. Mormons] that had
opposed the bill."
Source:
ibid.
Of note, the Mormon church is the only religious organization
that "has notified BCI [Utah Bureau of Criminal
Identification] of their intent to prohibit firearms in their
'houses of worship' in Utah".
Source: BCI's "Houses
of Worship Prohibiting Firearms on Premises" page.
Based on the Mormon church's singular advocacy in the state
against gun owners bearing arms in its houses of worship, it
seems possible that Neiderhauser's statement may well be a
variant of "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". In
this case it is Neiderhauser's protest against those who might
rationally believe the Mormon church lobbyists had made their
anti-gun owner position known to the thugs who run the
statutarium. How difficult it must be for Mormon
church members attending their houses of worship to know that
their virtuous and honorable act of bearing arms for defense
of self, family, and other church members against murderous
attacks is held in contempt by their church leaders.
House
bully Greg Hughes also publicly undermined SB 97 in a
Deseret News article on the same day.
Source: "State
senator shelves 'constitutional carry' gun bill," by
Dennis Romboy, Deseret News, Feb. 10, 2016.
As UT Gun Rights warned in its article, "Two
Bullies Steal Your Rights," Niederhauser and Hughes are
dictators. They bully the entire statutarium and run
roughshod over your elected officials. These two males set the
agenda and your statutators obediently follow it.
One wonders what became of "firearms community" stalwarts like
Curtis Oda who proudly announced his intent to hold secret
meetings with Gary "BB Gun Background Checks" Herbert. It
seems their efforts were successful... from Herbert's point of
view. Once again, Utah's so-called "gun champions" have
surrendered without a fight.
Note: Because of the constant games being played
—
year after year
— with bills like SB 97 that are only a marginal improvement
over the status quo, UT Gun Rights will no longer consider
permitless carry bills with an "unloaded" requirement to be
"Good" bills.
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Park City Councilor Liza Simpson Buzzes at Being Forced to End Gun Control
Shared on 9/15/2015
"Simply irritating."
— Park City Councilor Liza Simpson, at
the news that her city must repeal several gun control codes
to comply with state statute or face a legal action by The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
Quote Source:
"Utah Town Repeals All Gun Laws," by Tim,
Guns 'n' Freedom, Nov. 26, 2014.
The SAF, based in Washington State, noted that Park City officials drug their feet for nearly 5 months before finally repealing those gun control codes. The SAF has boldly written 49 Utah local governments, demanding that they repeal various gun control codes.
Liza Simpson's consternation aside, why did it require intervention from an out-of-state organization to force Park City officials to comply with state statute? Where was Utah's illustrious attorney general and "top cop" Sean "Rambo" Reyes? Instead of
going clandestine in Columbia,
perhaps he should spend more time doing his job in Utah?
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Statutator
Curtis Oda Collaborates with Gun Control Zealot Gary Herbert
Shared on 20/13/2015
"The thing is,
why expend the effort if he's [Executive Monarch Gary Herbert] just going to veto
it?... And at this point there's no way to
know if we're going to have the votes for an override,
so I think the general conclusion is, let's try to work it
out...
"Let's put it this way: The governor has asked for
everyone to get together to talk. Let's look not only at
[constitutional carry] but a couple other things...
"We've got all the stakeholders on our side,
as far as the firearms community, saying, 'If we can come to
an agreement and get something good done, even if it takes
another year, let's do it.'" [bold added]
— house statutator Curtis Oda, who publicly announced he is
pulling his already watered-down bill,
HB 260: "Carry Unloaded Firearms Concealed".
Quote Source: "Governor
cuts deal to avert showdown on gun issue," by Robert
Gehrke, Salt Lake Tribune, Feb 10, 2015.
Was anyone surprised at Oda's ignominious surrender?
Touted as one of Utah's supposed "gun rights champions", Oda
received a
-75% rating on the 2013 Utah Government Corruption
Report,
sponsored
SB 120: "Turning the State Forester into a Monarch" in
2013,
sponsored
HB 276: "Violence Against Open Carry Gun Owners" in
2014, and has already sponsored
HB 37: "Gun Control by Bureaucrats" this
session.
Rather than push statutators to toughen up and put their votes
where their big mouths are, Oda prefers to collaborate with
rabidly anti-gun Herbert, who received a
-100% on the same report, has
publicly endorsed
background checks for BB guns (yes, you read that
correctly), and
worked via secretive "back channels" to prevent officials
from being held accountable on a nearly identical bill in 2013
(HB 76).
Imagine the wonderful results gun owners can expect from this
special beehive of backroom deals. Will they be joined
by "firearms community" stalwarts like Utah Shooting Sports
Council (USSC) chairman, W. Clark Aposhian,
who appeared to secretively facilitate opposition to HB 76 in
2013? To ridicule Oda directly,
click here.
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SLC
Catholic Bishop John Wester Makes a Bee-Line for Gun
Control
Shared on 12/20/2013
"HB 76 establishes a culture in Utah that prioritizes
deadly weapons over human life. That is not the vision we
have for Utah and I hope, and suspect, it is not your vision
either. I know you share our interest in protecting the
sanctity of life. What I and the Catholic Church seek is to
build on this common ground to achieve common sense gun
legislation." —
John Wester, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt
Lake City, in a
March 15, 2013 letter to Executive Monarch Gary Herbert.
Wester's position against
HB 76 S1 (Carry "Unloaded" Firearms Concealed) actually
prioritizes the lives and violent actions of criminals and
sadly affirms a culture of violence and death.
The present statute
that Wester desires to preserve solely disarms peaceful,
innocent citizens and unjustly subjects them to murder, rape,
and other criminal attacks.
Who does "we" refer to in Wester's
political statement?
Wester and the Pope?
Does "we" include Catholics in Wester's Diocese, and,
if so, did he bother to poll them and allow discussion on this
topic before speaking politically on their behalf?
Or is this a form of religious-political extortion that
denies personal conscience and dignity:
Parishioners in
Wester's Diocese must adopt, and assist, his personal gun
control advocacy, or at least say nothing?
Perhaps Bishop Wester should check
with the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Burlington (Vermont).
Catholics and others
there carry LOADED firearms concealed without
licenses or permits and the crime rate is one of the lowest in
the United
States.
UT Gun Rights asserts that Bishop
Wester's priority of placing the lives of criminals ahead of
the lives of innocents is not a basis for common ground.
His odd conception of the sanctity of human life and
inappropriate political statement is something that
life-affirming Catholics and Utahns should strongly reject.
Wester's phone is 801-328-8641 and his fax is 801-328-0324.
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Herbert's
New Lt. Governor, Spencer Cox, Is Just Buzzing for Gun
Control
Shared on 10/9/2013
"It was great to talk to you today. I thought you might
be interested in my thoughts on HB 76. This document
represents my thoughts on why I was wrong and Gov. Herbert was
right. It is fairly long and detailed (by design). It is
still a work in progress, but I want to be prepared in
case my 'switch' vote becomes public. Thanks for all
you do!" [bold added] — then-representative Spencer Cox
in an
April 13, 2013 private email to Mike Mower, governor
Herbert's Deputy for Community Outreach.
Cox voted for
HB 76 S1 (Carry "Unloaded" Firearms Concealed) during the legislative session. When a secretive poll
was later conducted by the house and senate monarchs, however,
he voted AGAINST holding a veto-override for the bill.
Rather than proudly and publicly announce his "switch" in
favor of gun control, Cox was preparing to defend himself "IN
CASE" his betrayal was made public.
Unlike previous years, citizens were
correctly pressuring the house and senate monarchs to make
the veto override poll public. Fortunately, those
citizens were successful, and also exposed Cox's doting email.
Herbert has found a suitable
yes-man who will promote his gun control agenda through
secretive back channels. To learn more, see our June 25,
2013 article,
"Legislators
Hid Behind Herbert's Veto of HB 76." Also note
that as a house statutator, Cox received a -75% (that's
MINUS) on the
2013 Utah Government Corruption Report.
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SLC
Mayor Ralph Becker Implores Congress to Force Gun Control on
Utahns
Shared on 9/10/2013
"I hope that people in states like mine, where the
initial reaction is 'Don't have government do anything. These
won't make any difference,' that people will move beyond the
rhetoric. And consider what we can do that is
reasonable, that is completely within the confines of what we
treasure in the Second Amendment.
And we can take some
measures. And it's going to take Congress."
[bold added] — Salt Lake City mayor Ralph Becker
Quote source: "Mayors
rally in D.C. for action on
guns," by Kevin Robillard, Politico, Jan.
17, 2013.
Becker was attending, and is a member of, the
Council of
Mayors, which advocates banning so-called "assault
weapons" like AR-15s, AK-47s, M1-As, etc., and
standard-capacity magazines over 10 rounds (see
source 11 and
source 22). Becker is also a member of New York mayor
Michael Bloomberg's
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which advocates the same gun
controls. Becker exemplifies lessons taught in Gun Control
101: If you can't get the people of your own state to ban it,
ignore them and get the federal congress to do your dirty
work.
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