The state of Kentucky is a pretty red state, but it has a Democrat as governor. This makes it sure look like Breshaer is a moderate who can work across the aisle with Republicans, but the truth is that he's absolutely no friend to gun owners. That's especially true if you're someone who wants to carry for your own self-defense, but you're under 21.
After all, Breshear vetoed your chance to lawfully carry.
I can't say that's fine, because it's not, but I also understand that his politics are different than mine, so it's not unexpected.
But his reasons were ridiculous, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling him out over it.
From a press release:
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 312 was a deplorable act of sexism which leaves young women unarmed and vulnerable to brutal attack, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms declared.
“While he claims to be a ‘different kind of Democrat,’ Gov. Beshear has revealed himself to be just one more anti-gun-rights politician adhering to the party’s increasingly far-left dogma,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “He has shown his true colors by preventing a provisional license for 18- to 20-year-olds to carry a concealed handgun in public, amounting to a direct attack on young women, especially young women of color, who are frequently in need of protection. The late, great First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was one of the first women in New York State to have a full carry license, is probably spinning in her grave.
“We’ve all heard the excuses from Democrats for opposing legal carry for self-defense by young adults,” he continued, “and it all translates to social bigotry against young Black and Latino males, to whom they often refer as being ‘too impulsive’ to exercise their Second Amendment rights. How many of these same young Americans join the military, start businesses, enter into contracts, get married and start families? The idea that such citizens can do all of these things, yet be denied the means by which to protect themselves, by the stroke of a governor’s pen, is disgusting.
“The media is playing this veto up as a way Beshear honors a friend who was killed in the Old National Bank shooting in 2023,” Gottlieb noted, “but that’s nonsense. The killer in that outrage was 25 years old, and he left an appalling manifesto explaining his rampage as an act against gun violence, and Beshear knows it. He’s allowing the actions of a dead lunatic to guide policy regarding the rights of responsible young adults, and especially young, vulnerable women.
“The General Assembly should make short work of this veto by overriding it at its session next week,” Gottlieb suggested. “Politicians such as Gov. Beshear like to pay lip service to young adults in order to get their votes, but as we just witnessed, it’s all a façade.”
Breshear's reasons appear convoluted in response to the bill that was before him--one that required adults under 21 to get a permit, not just a blanket approval to carry a firearm--by invoking so many things that had nothing at all to do with lawful adults under a particular age. As noted above, and in Cam's coverage of the veto, the Old National Bank killer was 25, meaning he could get a permit.
Further, Gottlieb didn't mention that it came out that the killer's motive was to push for gun control. He engaged in an act of domestic terrorism to encourage the exact thing that Breshear is using his murders to justify.
Brilliant. I'm sure that won't encourage more nutjobs, will it?
Let's keep in mind that the people who represent a problem aren't deterred by carry laws or gun control of any other kind. They're vile people who want to take life for their own selfish reasons. They're not going to be stopped from doing so because Breshear vetoed this bill. They weren't stopped before, so nothing changed for them.
The people who are impacted are those who aren't the problem in the first place. These young men and women are lawful adults, and while Breshear invoked a lot of other things they can't do while under 21, none of those are rights protected under the Constitution...and a few of those are idiotic to boot.
Breshear didn't just make a statement about guns. He insulted literally every adult under the age of 21, not just in Kentucky, but everywhere in the nation.
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