PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Bobby Jindal Likens Gun Rights to Religious Liberty :: 04/12/2015
NASHVILLE — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sounds more and more like a candidate eager to re-ignite the culture wars that divide Red America from its more urban alternative, as he gears up for a likely White House bid later this year.
In a speech to the National Rifle Association later today, the Louisiana governor is expected to link efforts to fight so-called religious freedom measures in Indiana and Arkansas with other, unrelated attempts to restrict gun ownership in the U.S.
“If these large forces can conspire to crush the First Amendment, it won’t be long before they come after the Second Amendment,” Mr. Jindal is expected to tell a group of NRA members here in Nashville this afternoon, according to early excerpts of his remarks.
Indiana and Arkansas recently passed legislation that critics said would have offered legal protection to business owners who refused services to same-sex couples. Amid widespread criticism, including from executives at companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.WMT -0.10% and Apple Inc.AAPL -0.11%, the two states’ Republican governors signed revised bills that weakened such protection.
Mr. Jindal, who is widely expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, frames both as debates about fundamental protections laid out in the Constitution. He sees the fight as a pitched battle with Hollywood, large corporations and the federal government on one side and everyday Americans on the other.
“We saw Hollywood liberals and editorial columnists form a new alliance with some of the biggest corporations in our country,” Mr. Jindal is expected to say about the fights in Indiana and Arkansas. “They came together to bully the elected representatives of the people.”
“This was an attack on our Constitution,” Mr. Jindal is set to say. “It was an attack on the fundamental right to speech and association and the free exercise of religion. It was large corporations and Hollywood saying: we don’t care about the First Amendment.”
Although the pro-gun side has won victory after victory across the country in recent years, expanding gun-owners’ rights to carry concealed weapons, loosening restrictions on the places they can do so, and broadening the right to use deadly force in self-defense, Mr. Jindal portrays gun rights as under relentless attack from “liberal elitists.”
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is “pressuring grocery stores and restaurants to ban guns. Next, he will bully sporting goods stores to quit selling guns and ammo,” he will say, according to the prepared remarks.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/10/bobby-jindal-likens-gun-rights-to-religious-liberty/
