NC Gun Voters Win Big
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago
Judicial Races
Equally large were gun voters’ judicial victories, where we made a clean sweep of NC Supreme Court and NC Court of Appeals races. Thanks to victories by strong constitutional conservatives Richard Dietz and Trey Allen, Republicans will now control the NC Supreme Court by a 5-2 margin – something that will serve North Carolinians well as we continue to struggle over redistricting and our as-yet-unimplemented voter ID law.
Congressional Races
Despite having a partisan, Democrat-led NC Supreme Court throw out and essentially redraw congressional districts, we were still able to send Chuck Edwards to the U.S. House in District 11. Edwards is a strong Second Amendment advocate who has been of considerable service to gun rights supporters in the General Assembly.
NC General Assembly (NCGA) Races
In unofficial results, it appears that gun voters achieved a super-majority in the NC Senate, with 30 seats, and 71 seats in the NC House, just one seat shy of a supermajority. Here too GRNC-PVF was highly successful, winning in 8 of 10 targeted Senate races and 10 of 16 targeted House races.
Well then, it’s time to get busy. So now when another shooting happens, I don’t expect the GOP led Congress to buckle. I expect the concealed handgun permitting process and the requirement to get CLEO approval of handgun purchase permits to be trashed by state law and replaced with constitutional purchase and carry. I don’t expect the courts to roll over when anyone tries to send them gerrymandered redistricting plans. I expect the GOP to vote pro-2A as a complete bloc rather than being splintered off. I don’t expect open carry to be messed with or rescinded.
Is this too much to ask? If so, we can be about our job of replacing you just like we’re going to replace that awful governor.
On November 16, 2022 at 11:27 pm, PGF said:
TN has been like this for a decade and every year the Republican super majority has to be dragged uphill against their will to do anything beyond lip service to gun rights. They don’t actually support civil rights and gun rights they just want the voting block.
On November 16, 2022 at 11:38 pm, Herschel Smith said:
My words are tongue in cheek.
On November 16, 2022 at 11:49 pm, PGF said:
Sadly it took me years of activism to figure it out. I ain’t that bright, or maybe I just wanted to believe in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Politics is a lousy religion.