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Lima, Montana

Montana is made safer by armed citizens

WE NEED MORE GUNS!!!!


By DANIEL PERSON Chronicle Staff Writer

HELENA - At a marathon hearing Thursday, backers and opponents of a bill to expand gun rights in Montana painted distinctly different pictures of the state and its gun laws.

Proponents of House Bill 228 said gun owners in Montana are now held captive by gray areas in Montana statute that could lead to them being prosecuted for defending themselves with their firearm, or even displaying a pistol to deter would-be attackers.

But opponents said the laws already on the books work, and that the expanded gun-rights bill would hamper law enforcement’s ability to prosecute people whom they believe had wrongly used a gun.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Krayton Kerns, R-Laurel, is almost identical to a bill carried by then-Rep. Jack Wells, R-Bozeman, in the 2007 session.

If passed, the bill would, among other things:

= allow people to carry a concealed weapon without a permit;
= greatly strengthen self-defense protections in the state;
= allow people to display their gun to deter an attack;
= allow people to use a gun whenever at risk of physical harm;
= and, in shooting incidents in which the person who fired the gun claimed self defense, require the state to prove that it was not.

From one side:

“Too often, the victim becomes the criminal in our system,” said Brian Judy of the NRA.

Kerns told the House Judiciary Committee that Montana is made safer by armed citizens. He cited the recent shooting in Glasgow, and said while the assailant in that case killed one and wounded two others, a private citizen with a gun was reportedly able to prevent the shooter from causing more damage.

From another:

Dennis Paxinos, Yellowstone County attorney, said the bill fixes a problem that doesn’t exist.

“There is no case, there is no reason, for such a huge change in our criminal code,” he said.

Paxinos described a scenario in which two gangs approached each other in a public park. Under Kern’s bill, he said, it would be legal for both gangs to display their weapons to each other, then open fire.

“It eviscerates the tools we use now to combat these idiots,” he said.

Nothing like shooting at a burning freezer with an AK-47 out in the prairies of Montana. Marshall and Josh were exceptionally well armed, with two AK-47 assault rifles, a semi-automatic 22 rifle with a banana clip and a hand crank on the trigger and a .44 mag pistol that I couldn't hit shit with but liked the most none the less. Tyler had a semi-auto .45 that was clearly made for killing people and a shotgun.

Now that you mention it most of the guns we shot were clearly made for killing people. It was fun shooting them.