Oklahoma Governor vetos Constitutional Carry

[philcam]

Oklahoma's Governor Mary Fallin (R) vetoed a bill tonight that would have allowed for constitutional carry for adults over 21 and military members over 18.

Fallin claimed businesses and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation opposed the bill.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...t-for-nra.html

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Well, at least the OSBI Director is honest:

The bureau of investigation, which issues handgun licenses, had said the bill would cost the agency about $4.7 million annually and result in the loss of about 60 full-time positions.

"The impact on public safety is unquantifiable," bureau Director Bob Ricks said in a statement.

Now, that is a new spin:

Enacting more firearms regulations creates new jobs, relaxing regulations costs jobs.

[HeruMew]

Yep.

Gets rid of 60 jobs that was never needed and undue taxation without representation.

[philcam]

Brings new meaning to “freedom isn’t free.”

[RazorBurn]

From what I read about this a few days ago it sounded like there was hand writing on the wall that this was going to happen. Hopefully there's time to override the veto. If that time is past then here's hoping they throw out another bum who won't listen to their constituents out of office during the next election.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Just don't consider that a similar thing would happen if they were to get people off of welfare.... how many govt jobs would they lose then...

[fledge]

From what I read about this a few days ago it sounded like there was hand writing on the wall that this was going to happen. Hopefully there's time to override the veto. If that time is past then here's hoping they throw out another bum who won't listen to their constituents out of office during the next election.

Were there enough original votes for a veto?

[flenna]

Yep.

Gets rid of 60 jobs that was never needed and undue taxation without representation.

I read a statistic a while back that for every one job in a government regulatory agency nine jobs are eliminated in the private sector. Hence, if we eliminated the myriad of regulations the private job sector would grow almost ten fold, practically eliminating unemployment.

[TomMcC]

Republicans doing what they do best...stab you in the back.

[flenna]

Republicans doing what they do best...stab you in the back.

I can almost see how this went down: "Hey Gov, us Repubes are going to pass a Constitutional carry bill, wink wink, to show our constituents we are for them. Since you are in your last term all you have to do is, wink wink, let it die on your desk."