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
North Carolina Sheriff: Pack heat to stop bloody crime wave :: 08/04/2014
Shootings and killings barely make the news in major American cities, but in a rural county outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, residents are alarmed by a recent wave of violent crime and they're looking for answers from their sheriff.
Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins didn't hesitate to give a straight answer. When called upon at a prayer vigil Monday night, he urged them to get armed and get serious about defending their homes.
"Even though I'm a cop, I don't go anywhere without a gun," he told about 130 residents who gathered at a local church to discuss and pray about a string of shootings that have left several people dead or injured over the past two weeks. "I want my deputies to get there just as fast as they possibly can if you've got a problem. But you better be able to take care of business before we get there if you need to protect your family."
His comments follow similar statements in recent months from the police chief in Detroit and the sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
And in October 2011 Sheriff Chuck Wright of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, urged residents, and especially women, to arm themselves after a woman was attacked in a park and forced to take her clothes off by a man who then tried to rape her.
"Carry a concealed weapon, that'll fix it," Wright said at a news conference.
Many gun-rights advocates see Detroit Police Chief James Craig an anomaly, being the top cop in a major urban area where Democratic politics normally rule the day – and stifle any pro-gun talk by hired city employees. Yet, Craig, a former advocate of gun control when he worked in Los Angeles and Cincinnati, appears to have "seen the light," said Jerry Henry, president and founder of GeorgiaCarry.org.
http://www.wyff4.com/Sheriff-Time-For-Citizens-To-Arm-Themselves/6132894#%21bwz0cZ
