Senator Brunstetter recently responded, to complaints that Senate Bill 124 would emasculate the Castle Doctrine by writing, “I strongly support the Castle Doctrine and Second Amendment Rights. Senate Bill 124 does not change the Castle Doctrine in North Carolina. This bill goes against the criminal and not against the gun.” Really?
From Randy’s Right III …
Let’s read this together:
SECTION 1. Article 8 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
“§ 14-34.10. Discharge firearm within enclosure to do harm or incite fear.
Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge a firearm within any building, structure, motor vehicle, or other conveyance, erection, or enclosure with the intent to do harm or incite fear shall be punished as a Class E felon.”
NOW, I DISCHARGE MY WEAPON IN MY HOME TO REPEL A BURGLAR, HOW AM I NOT COVERED BY THIS LAW? 1. ” Willfully discharge.” I pull the trigger and that IS a willfull discharge. 2. “Any building”. I believe my home would qualify as, ” any building”. 3. “Intent to do harm”. If someone is in my home and attempting to commit a property crime or do me or my family harm, I would certainly intend to “harm” them.
Now please tell me again how this wouldn’t apply to me but to some knucklehead in Walmart trying to commit suicide???? Do you folks in Raleigh really think your constituents are that dumb!
Randy’s Right III
An Open Letter to the Senator
Senator Brunstetter,
Leave the Castle Doctrine ALONE!!! I no longer vote in national elections because the politicians at that level have proven themselves to have abandoned the Constitution. In my simple mind their doing so has rendered them an illegitimate and rogue government and their laws, those that do not conform to the Constitution, have no binding effect. However, I do recognize they have plenty of guns and cages to demand compliance; at least for the present. Local and state politicians, however, are closer at hand and do not have the same lock on power enjoyed by those in Washington, so I have not given up in that arena. Neither do I see the same degree of corruption at the state and local level, although that’s changing rapidly.
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