PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
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Arrests, Fingerprinting, and Revolving Door Justice :: 07/01/2014
In 2013, 30,000 suspected criminals whose charges included sex crimes, assaults and murder were not fingerprinted by Pennsylvania police, according to state records. State law requires that suspected offenders be fingerprinted within 48 hours of arrest. So, if thousands of people aren't getting fingerprinted, whose fault is it? "It's up to the police to do it. It's a mandatory function. It's not anybody else's job but the arresting department," said Eric Radnovich, director of the Bureau of Justice Services at the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office.
Casey supports US version of Argentina's Dirty Wars :: 07/01/2014
We received this reply from Senator Casey. What's next, our own version of the desaparecedos (the disappeared ones)? This man's thinking is frightening.
"Thank you for taking the time to contact me about S. 2445, the Pause for Safety Act of 2014. I appreciate hearing from you about this issue.
Cochran will repay his run-off victory with your 2nd Amendment rights :: 07/01/2014
"Cochran will repay his run-off victory with your 2nd Amendment rights. It is said that no good deed goes unpunished. In the case of incumbent Mississippi Republican (I think) Senator Thad Cochran, no nefarious despicable deed goes without payback."
Gun buy backs-ineffective and Illegal :: 07/01/2014
"Gun buy-backs are popular, but ineffective . It gives the community a false sense of hope that police departments are doing something to reduce crime when, in fact, those who possess firearms unlawfully never appear at those events.
James Barry Wright, former chief of police, Opa-locka
via No way to fight crime – Letters to the Editor – MiamiHerald.com.
But they make for good press and people think you "care."
Thanks Chief Wright. The legality of gun buybacks is suspect, as well.
Irresponsible Journalism in Florida :: 07/01/2014
"There was a time when newspaper editorials were suppose to be thoughtful pieces of writing addressing some important point for the local audience. While the rest of the paper was supposed to deal with the facts of a story, the editorial page was the opinion outlet for the collective mind of the newspaper about some major issue. And yes, maybe I am romanticizing a bit.
But now, with every story, most "journalists" immediately editorialize and color with their own personal bias an event.
This article shows how absurd the liberal media can be."
Is Your Local Police Force Using High-Tech Tracking? The Top Four Terms You Need to Know :: 07/01/2014
Big Brother is watching, and YOU are NOT off the grid.
Op-Ed directed to CeaseFirePA :: 07/01/2014
Op-Ed directed to CeaseFirePA. Unless this is gutted, and cut down to 250 words, the PG (surprise) refuses to post it as an op-ed. If its chopped to 250 words, they "might" run it as a letter to the editor. We like the long version here:
"We all share a common goal of reducing the violence in our society, well at least most of us anyway. Recently there was a letter to the editor published by an officer with Cease-Fire PA, Rob Conroy, entitled "real gun-control needed" (June 24, 2014). Where we sharply disagree is the way to go about it. Further, it is curious that Mr. Conroy is so distressed about legislation that is, at heart, simply a symbolic and sentimental gesture revolving around an antique muzzle-loading rifle.
Stephen King-Newest "Expert" on Gun Laws :: 07/01/2014
"A week ago, horror author Stephen King took to his Twitter account to spew forth his political opinion on guns. In the aftermath of yet another shooting after a rap concert in Colorado, the man responsible for some of the most nightmarish literary violence in history, told his followers that guns should be regulated like alcohol and cigarettes."
Please read the article, JPFO's Nicki Kenyon, Army Veteran, thinks maybe we ought to regulate tobacco and alcohol as we do guns.
This Family-Run Restaurant Is the Opposite of a Gun-Free Zone-Wait Until You Read the Sign That's Posted :: 07/01/2014
"Would you complain about your meal if the waitress serving the food was packing heat? That's exactly what you'll find at Shooters Grill, the aptly named restaurant located in the town of Rifle, Colorado.carry rights and invites customers to do the same."
This Family-Run Restaurant Is the Opposite of a Gun-Free Zone-Wait Until You See the Sign That's Posted :: 07/01/2014
"Would you complain about your meal if the waitress serving the food was packing heat?
That's exactly what you'll find at Shooters Grill, the aptly named restaurant located in the town of Rifle, Colorado.
Shooters Grill owner Lauren Boebert and her husband Jayson. (Image via Facebook)
The family-run, American-style diner features wait staff who exercise their open-carry rights and invites customers to do the same."
We need a franchise here, right next to Buffalo Wild Wings.
Three-way effort underway to legalize semi-auto rifles for Pennsylvania hunters :: 07/01/2014
No less than three bills are being pushed through the Pennsylvania state legislature to end the total ban on hunting with semi-automatic rifles in the Keystone state.
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right :: 06/30/2014
"Demonstrating once more that "In your face!" activism does not work when applied to business, Moms Demand got evicted out of a San Antonio Target."
Do take the time to read about Open Carry Texas as well as Moms Demand Action. A lot of folks, including us, are tired of this in your face "activism". Open Carry Texas is pointed to by every anti-gun group as villains, and MDA is most certainly wearing out even their own folks with emotion filled arguments that are totally lacking in facts. Give it a rest, folks. In this San Antonio incident both pro and anti-gun groups lost a lot of ground.
PA Police Fail to Fingerprint 'Thousands' of Criminals :: 06/29/2014
In 2013, 30,000 suspected criminals whose charges included sex crimes, assaults and murder were not fingerprinted by Pennsylvania police, according to state records.
163 Dems Sign Letter to John Boehner Demanding Gun Control :: 06/27/2014
No need to post a quote from the article. Here are 163 legislators that you can NOT vote for. There is an embedded link to the letter, and those who signed it in the article. Read the letter. They're still using the "74 school shootings since Sandy Hook", which even CNN backed away from. Same story. Lots of emotion, no facts.
Colorado Laws Stand while Gov. Hickenlooper cries crocodile tears :: 06/27/2014
DENVER (Reuters) A federal judge upheld gun laws on Thursday introduced by Colorado in the wake of deadly shooting rampages there and in Connecticut, dismissing a lawsuit brought by sheriffs, gun shops, outfitters and shooting ranges.
The two laws, passed in 2013 by Colorado's Democratic-controlled legislature with scant Republican support, banned ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds and required background checks for all private gun sales and transfers.
Think it can't happen here? Here's a picture for you. The Philadelphia anti-gunners in league with Governor Wolf. If THAT won't get you to the polls in November, we just don't know what will. You have to vote in November, and so does everyone who owns a gun; any gun.
Feds are underestimating the number of children killed in unintentional firearm deaths. Bloomberg said it so we know it's true. :: 06/27/2014
New research from a gun control group backed by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg finds the federal government is underestimating the number of children killed in unintentional firearm deaths.
The report from Everytown for Gun Safety looked at a one-year period beginning in December 2012, and found at least 100 unintentional shooting deaths in that time, or almost two a week. That's 60 percent more than reflected in federal data.
via Feds underreporting accidental child gun deaths, study finds-TheHill."
How anti-gun is Obama? Read this :: 06/27/2014
President Barack Obama said Thursday that if gun control measures are going to pass Congress, gun control advocates have to get as organized and well-financed as the National Rifle Association.
No wonder this lady wants gun control :: 06/27/2014
Dante Williams, 19, and his accomplice Jawan Craig walked into the Waffle House restaurant and "terrorized" the customers in 2012 intent on robbing it at gun point. Upon being approached by Williams, gun in hand, one of the patrons, Justin Harrison-who also had a concealed weapon on him but had an actual permit for it, shot Williams in self-defense, killing him "almost instantly," according to a Fox News affiliate in North Carolina. Fox only recently acquired the video footage from the 2012 incident." (you can see the video by clicking on the hyperlink.)
Mental Health Issue recognized by CNN :: 06/26/2014
(CNN) Next time there's a mass shooting, don't jump to blame the National Rifle Association and lax gun laws. Look first at the shooter and the mental health services he did or didn't get, and the commitment laws in the state where the shooting took place. Strengthening gun control won't stop the next mass shooter, but changing our attitudes, the treatment options we offer and the laws for holding the mentally unstable and mentally ill for treatment just might."
SCOTUS Gets it Wrong on Guns :: 06/26/2014
In what's being hailed by many as a victory for gun-control advocates, the recent Supreme Court decision on "straw" purchases of guns has completely muddled the whole issue of background checks and "straw" purchases for potential gun owners.
The court ruled 5-4 that, as The Hill.com put it, "one legal gun owner may not acquire a firearm on behalf of another, a practice known as "straw" purchasing.
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