PA Bill Number: HB917
Title: Adopting the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act.
Description: Adopting the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act. ...
Last Action: Presented to the Governor
Last Action Date: Apr 29, 2024
Conn. police chief channels Emily Litella with gun permit suspension fiasco :: 01/12/2015
Following an uproar and vows for action by grassroots gun rights advocates, New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski resumed issuing gun permits Friday that he had ordered halted, News 12 Connecticut reported. Fearing a non-existent “loophole in the law that could allow people with a history of mental illness to purchase guns,” the chief suspended permits pending local authorities being given access to the Voluntary Admission Tracking System.
“Krolikowski says he discussed his concerns with the Department of Public Safety and is satisfied there is no loophole,” the News 12 report explained. Had he minimally investigated those concerns before resorting to knee-jerk authoritarianism, this would have never made the news.
“[A]ll local police departments have to do is call the State Police Weapons Division, and they can find out if someone has been involuntarily or voluntarily committed,” News 8 WTNH reported. Apparently picking up the phone before making much ado about nothing and denying rights to the people who pay his salary did not occur to the 2014 New Canaan Person of the Year.
“Krolikowski has led a change in the department that has included a major crackdown on distracted driving, the use of technology to communicate with the town, a student resource officer at the middle school, a program that rewards the good people in town, regular appearances at community events, and much more,” NC Advertiser announced, right after Krolikowski realized he’d stirred everybody up in a heavy-handed way over nothing.
Meanwhile gun rights activists, already in defiance of nonstop infringements by a government coercing them with “obey or be destroyed” edicts, were not about to let the chief impose citizen disarmament diktats based on "because he said so." Discussion erupted on the Connecticut Citizens Defense League Facebook page, with assurances to members that the group was working to rectify the issue. For its part, Connecticut Carry compared New Canaan’s top cop to Chief Wiggum from “The Simpsons,’ and vowed the group “will be following up with further investigation on this.”
While a cartoon stereotype seems fitting, in this case there’s actually a closer parallel. Back on the original “Saturday Night Live,” cast member Gilda Radner played a recurring character, Emily Litella, who would launch into an impassioned editorial commentary until it was pointed out she was speaking under completely false and ignorant assumptions.
“Oh, that’s very different,” she would reply when told of her error. “Never mind.”
Where rights are concerned, particularly when “officials” are abusing them, citizens had better mind. The presumption that government has legitimate power to give permission for rights it has no claim to is nothing short of fraudulent. Any attempt to infringe on them under color of nonexistent “authority” is nothing short of criminal aggression.
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