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I agree. Absolutely everyone has the right to carry. No permit or training required. 18 and up. If stupid liberal think a high body count or shot up schools changes anything, they have another thing coming. Stack those bodies like chord wood. It don't mean nothing. Drive on.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 4:52 pm By: Big Bob

You have no idea the scope of the problem. Nobody can prove smoking causes cancer but there is a lot of data that indicates it does. Same with this. The data suggests that the earth is heating and our activity drives it. Bottom line, it doesn't matter. The deal is done. It may not be as bad as some say, or it might be worse. Who knows. So why argue with me? Ive left room that I might be wrong. Are you upset that a lot of people agree with me and are trying to mitigate? That's not my fault. Call your congress person.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 3:38 pm By: Big Bob

Here is the whole article from The County Compass. It is hard to read on the screenshot.

Who killed NC's Constitutional Carry bill?

by Steven Rader

Twenty seven states have now passed Constitutional Carry legislation that recognizes the Constitutional right of law abiding citizens to carry guns without the need of a permit. North Carolina was poised to be number twenty eight but that fell apart recently Divisions among gun rights groups and among Republican legislative leaders led to the bill being pulled from the legislative calendar.

To understand how this happened, one has to understand that there are a number of gun rights organizations which are active. The oldest and best known is the National Rifle Association (NRA), but disagreements with some of NRA's policies has led to the growth of other national gun rights groups, most prominently the Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). GOA was founded by a former national director of the NRA who broke with that organization over NRA's political endorsement policy of heavily favoring incumbents, even if they were relatively weak on gun issues and the challenger was a strong gun rights advocate.

Added to the mix at the state level is a home grown North Carolina gun rights organization, Grassroots North Carolina (GRNC). Over the last few years, it has been GRNC that has been by far the most active of all the gun rights groups in promoting gun rights legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly.

Since 2017, gun rights advocates, led by GRNC have been pushing Constitutional Carry legislation, and have passed a bill out of the state House on one prior occaision. In the 2023 legislative session, Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort) introduced as chief sponsor HB 189 to authorize Constitutional Carry in North Carolina. The bill was a top legislative priority of GRNC and was backed by GOA and NAGR. Its language was generally similar to earlier bills sponsored by former Reps. Mike Speciale (R-Craven) and Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus). The NRA was informed of the bill and its contents early on.

HB 189 cleared the necessary House committees, had the blessing of the House Speaker and was calendared for vote in the House just prior to the “crossover deadline”. Then Richmond, Virginia based regional NRA lobbyist D.J. Spiker swept into Raleigh at the last minute to oppose the bill. Firearms training is a profit center for the NRA and Spiker raised last minute objections to the training provisions of HB 189. A North Carolina firearms industry publication also alleged that the NRA was jealous that it had not been involved on this legislation and could not claim even partial credit for it.

While Spiker tried to rattle cages in both the House and Senate, it was in the Senate that he struck paydirt. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger announced that the Senate would not take up the bill. With no path to passage in the Senate, Speaker Moore then pulled it off the House calendar, too. Rep. Kidwell did get HB189 referred back to committee to add a fiscal note, a manuever that can get itpast the crossover deadline. GRNC is redoubling its efforts to try to get the bill passed, but its prospects look bleak at this point.

Already there are recriminations in the gun rights community. The North Carolina firearms newsletter “Ammoland” has called on gun rights supporters to resign their NRA memberships over the NRA's opposition to HB 189.

The exact path Spiker took to get Berger to spike the bill is not known, but it has been pointed out that Sen. Jim Perry (R-Lenoir) is a close personal friend of Spiker's boss at NRA, and also as Senate majority whip, close to Berger. Perry was in a key position to exert influence on the outcome, one way or the other this time, and likely will be in the future as well.

Constitutional Carry is an important issue to gun rights supporters, who have been working topass it in North Carolina for several years. This setback was not expected, but groups like the GRNC are already looking at future possiblities to move this bill or one like it. Rep. Kidwell has worked tirelessly to pass it, and is committed to redoubling his efforts going forward.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 2:56 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The People get the government they deserve. After over 31 years in politics, and after 22.5 years of serving as a Beaufort County Commissioner, this is the greatest truth that I have learned in this avocation.

Elections matter; supporting worthy candidates matters; knowing what is real as a citizen matters! A knowledgeable and assertive public in this People's government's is OUR greatest tool of US, the self-governed.

Accordingly, the public MUST become better engaged, or ... what transpires good or probably bad, as is the ongoing trend at many levels of today's government, will remain YOUR fault.

That is the foundational premise of self government.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 12:50 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Pauline: Babylon Bee is pure satire with a shred of truth for good measure in effecting a chuckle or a belly laugh from many of us here on ENC NOW.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 12:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

CT: Perfect point made and is inescapably true on all levels.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 12:30 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The scope of the problem is that there is no problem from human produced CO2, except that the fools who fall for the globalist narrative of climate alarmism threaten our freedom and prosperity. As Dr. Vaclav Klaus, past president and former prime minister of the Czech Republic wrote "climate alarmism is a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

If you want to know why the globalist narrative on climate alarmism is so full of hot air, listen to the many prominant scientists with PhDs in televent fields who are interviewed in this British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle": www.youtube.com

Or read Dr. Klaus' book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is in Jeopandy, Ckunate ir Freedom?" It has been published in eight languages and even you should undersand at least one of them, Bobbie.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 11:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Thank-you Hood for your honest perspective on your conceived history of how what occurs on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners affects us all, far more than many realize.

Until there is a majority of Conservatives moving as a thoughtful and motivated group of fiscal advocates, Beaufort County will continue to slide further into a middling mess of directionless accountability of the People's government, ultimately enabled by the People's hard earned confiscated wealth as this flaccid CURRENT majority's effective tool to ply their directionless path of rudderless and sophistic ideals.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Once burned twice shy. The last school building project was put in the hands of the School Board. It was a similar failure in every respect. It was over budget. It located schools in the worst places. The simple truth, today, is that our school buildings have almost two times the number of seats that we have students.

A comprehensive examination is a must.

Keep a close look on the school building program or we will have another disaster.

Leaving this to the School Board, we will have the same quality in the school building process that we have in the poor quality of education in Beaufort County.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 7:46 am By: Hood Richardson

People are voting with their feet to move to Florida. It is the state with the largest in-migration from other states of any state in the union, and a majority of those moving to Florida are registering Republican. And guess what? Under Governor deSantis, the black population of Forida has increased from in-migration faster than the white population. That is ordinary black folks voting with their feet in favor of Florida.
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Ordinary black folks see Florida a lot differently than the politicisned NAACP leadership.

The national NAACP's problem is that they have now embraced radical homosexuality, the "Gaystapo" and radical gender ideology. I temember when the NC branch of the NAACP did that under the radical round reverend and a number of black preachers dropped their membership in the organization. I heard of one who preached a sermon about the NAACP taking Satan into its heart.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:20 am By: John Steed

Christian do not "hate" people because they are sinners. The concept is "hate the sin, but love the sinner". Christiams wamt tp help simmers reform their ways. The groups you mention, Little Bobbie, are political groups, not religious groups. That is just another of your constant ditortions.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 8:23 am By: John Steed

Remember that the "final solution" was enacted by Fascists, and it is the Democratic Socialists that embrace ANTIFA, America's premiere organization of Fascism.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 11:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage