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Call them what they are: Supporters of carnage.

February 23, 2017

For the Wyoming Senate — which holds itself out to be amoungst the most pro-gun legislative bodies in the country –- to crush these bills would be outrageous.

HB 136, HB 137

The following Senators, in particular, need to hear from you before they vote on these bills. Please contact Senators
:

>>>  Affie Ellis, Affie.Ellis@wyoleg.gov, (307) 287-9095

>>>  Bruce Burns, Bruce.Burns@wyoleg.gov, (307) 672-6491

>>>  Bill Landen, Bill.Landen@wyoleg.gov, (307) 237-4067

>>>  Stephan Pappas, Stephan.Pappas@wyoleg.gov, (307)      630-7180

>>>  Michael Von Flatern, Michael.VonFlatern@wyoleg.gov,      (307) 680-4744

>>>  Dave Kinskey, Dave.Kinskey@wyoleg.gov, (307)      751-6428

>>>  Jeff Wasserburger, Jeff.Wasserburger@wyoleg.gov,      (307) 680-2943

>>>  Drew Perkins, Drew.Perkins@wyoleg.gov, (307)      315-6177

>>>  Tara Nethercott, Tara.Nethercott@wyoleg.gov, (307)      399-7696

>>>  Glenn Moniz, glenn.moniz@wyoleg.gov, (307) 760-1116

>>>  James Anderson, jameslee.anderson@wyoleg.gov, (307)      267-5775

>>>  Fred Baldwin, Fred.Baldwin@wyoleg.gov, (307)      877-3687

>>>  Dan Dockstader, Dan.Dockstader@wyoleg.gov, (307)      885-9705

>>>  Ray Peterson, Ray.Peterson@wyoleg.gov, (307)      548-6405

Remember, the Senate has killed gun bills for five years!

Five years of obstruction, while state after state has passed pro-gun bills.

No amendments, no excuses, period!

Wyoming Gun Owners

Wyoming Gun Owners end free fire zones now!

February 21, 2017

Last week both HB136 “Campus Carry” and HB137 “Repeal Gun Free Zones” made it past the Senate Judiciary committee, and must now face a full vote on the Senate floor.

Inside sources say the vote may happen as early as TOMORROW.

We’ve known from the start that this is where we would run into the most trouble.

Remember, the liberal media has been claiming these bills will die in the Senate because our Wyoming Senators haven’t moved a single gun bill here in Wyoming in five years.

Clearly, we’re moving forward having seen these bills moved through the House committee, the full House, and now the Senate committee.

But with session ending soon, we have no time to lose.

The capitol is packed with anti-gun organizations and lobbyists all bent on convincing our Senators that these bills are “too extreme.”

There are legislators in Cheyenne who’ve watered-down and manipulated good gun bills for years, who are working to undermine these bills as we speak.

As a reminder, HB 136 would allow for Campus Carry here in Wyoming, for those who possess a permit to do so.

HB 137 would simply lift the ban on carrying in government buildings where you and I pay property taxes, register vehicles, get registered to vote, and attend to county government business.

Both of these bills would repeal sections of Wyoming’s deadly “Gun Free Zones.”

We all understand that violent predators prefer “Gun Free Zones” like the ones we have here in Wyoming because the people in them are defenseless.

That’s why we can’t afford another year of rolling the dice and taking a chance with these dangerous “Gun Free Zones.”

We don’t want a mass shooting tragedy like we’ve seen in Florida or South Carolina.

If we don’t get past the Senate in the next few weeks, we’ll have to wait and start over again next year.

This will only expose us that much longer to mass attacks in Wyoming’s “Gun Free Zones.”

Please contact your Senator immediately, and tell him to support HB136 and HB137 and to oppose any weakening amendments!

If you’re not sure who your Senator is, please click here to find out.

>>>  Then email them.

>>>  Then send them a message via Facebook.

>>>  Then give them a call at (866)-996-8683. You’ll be      connected based on your address.

We need you to take all three actions as soon as possible. Leaving a message should only take 90 seconds.

We’re so close.

It’s critical that we ramp up the pressure as HB 136 and HB 137 head for a vote on the Senate floor.

Please reach out to them right now!

Brought to you by Wyoming Gun Owners

Wyoming Politics:Bloodbaths and carnage Trojan Horse Amendments.

February 1, 2017
HB 194 is a Trojan Horse designed to create free fire zones so that people can be butchered. A vote in favor of HB 194 is a vote for carnage either as a stand alone bill, or as an amendment. Support and co – sponsor HB 136 with no amendments.
 Contact your state Representatives and Senators now!

I need you to pick up the phone and call your Representative right now — and insist he support HB136 with no weakening amendments and oppose HB194!

(Not sure who your representative is — click here to find out.)

1.   You can call the House switchboard and they’ll      connect you automatically based on your address. The      number to call is (866)-996-8683.

2.   You can also email your legislator; a list of their      emails can be seen here.

3.   Of course, most of them are on Facebook and can      receive messages. So feel free to send them a message      that way, too.

This is a new era in Wyoming.

The people have sent new leadership to Cheyenne and we can’t let them chip away at the Second Amendment as their first order of business!

We can’t let them set the precedence that the Second Amendment is something to be tinkered with.

Please stand with us and act fast!

For Freedom,
David Ball
President
P.S. Both good AND bad gun bills are moving in Cheyenne!

Thanks to you, both HB136 and HB 137 “Campus Carry” and “Repeal Gun Free Zones” have passed the first full House vote and are scheduled to be heard again this week
.

Unfortunately, the House also passed Rep. Eklund’s “Trojan Horse” gun bill — HB194 — as well, which would gut any meaningful “Campus Carry” legislation by allowing each school district to set their own policies and by publishing the names of gun owners who carry on campus!

I need your help right away!

Please contact your legislator now — using the information above — and tell him to vote “NO!” on HB194, whether on the floor or if it’s filed as an amendment
!

Free Fire Zones, and the people of Wyoming

January 23, 2017

So called gun free zones are nothing more than free fire zones for maniacs, and social miscreants. I have yet another take on the subject. That being that if you support these overtly dangerous laws that you in fact enjoy death and destruction. If not in a sociopathic manner then because they further you own agenda feeding your mental illness. That being Hoplophobia at best, and tyranny through the color of law at worst.

We, the people of Wyoming need to tell those that write our laws that we refuse to be left to be slaughtered, including our neighbors, and children.

You’ve got two days!

Our legislation to repeal deadly “Gun Free Zones” and to authorize “Campus Carry” are going to be heard in the House Judiciary Committee THIS TUESDAY!

This means that you’ve got only a few days to contact the members of the Judiciary Committee — I’ll be giving you their contact information below.

Please take a moment to make your calls and send your emails RIGHT AWAY!

Already, the anti-gun lobby is prowling the legislature, opposing both of these bills.

So are members of the educational community like University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols.

Never mind the fact that it was a “Gun Free” campus where 32 students were murdered by a madman with a gun, in 2007.

Never mind the fact that, in 2015, ten students and staff were shot and killed in a Roseburg, Oregon community college that was a — you guessed it — “Gun Free Zone.”

And of course, who could forget the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, a “Gun Free Zone,” where 26 students and staff died during a mass shooting.

Virtually every time a psycho with a gun looks to rack up a body count they target gun free zones!

And of course they do, those are the areas where they know that they’ll face no armed opposition.

That’s why we’re working to do away with these “Gun Free Zones” in Wyoming — to give people a chance to fight back!

You’d think this would be an easy sell, right?

But trust me, the anti-gun media outlets and the anti-gun lobby in Cheyenne will be putting as much pressure as possible on the legislature to kill these bills.

That’s why it’s essential you contact the members of the House Judiciary Committee right away, and insist that they pass both HB 136 and HB 137 through the committee with no weakening amendments!

Please contact:

>>>  Rep. Dan Kirkbride at Dan.Kirkbride@wyoleg.gov, or by      calling him at (307)331-2265, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

>>>  Rep. Mark Baker at Mark.Baker@wyoleg.gov, or by      calling him at (307)371-5113, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

>>>  Rep. Mark Jennings at Mark.Jennings@wyoleg.gov, or by      calling him at (307)461-0697, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

>>>  Rep. Jered Olsen at Jared.Olsen@wyoleg.gov, or by      calling him at (307)509-0242, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

>>>  Rep. Charles Pelkey at Charles.Pelkey@wyoleg.gov, or      by calling him at (307)920-0542, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

>>>  Rep. Bill Pownall at Bill.Pownall@wyoleg.gov , or by      calling him at (307)682-4148.

>>>  Rep. Tim Salazar at Tim.Salazar@wyoleg.gov, or by      calling him at (307)220-1213.

>>>  Rep. Nathan Winters at Nathan.Winters@wyoleg.gov, or      by calling him at (307)864-3690, or by sending him a      message on Facebook.

Make sure they know that you’re sick and tired of seeing innocent people gunned down, being left utterly helpless to defend themselves due to these outrageous “Gun Free Zone” policies.

With new leadership in the House and Senate, now’s the time to pass pro-gun legislation like HB 136 and HB 137!

It starts on Tuesday — so please contact the committee right away.

Full disclosure: I am a Life Member of The NRA, Gun Owners of America, and a member of Wyoming Gun Owners, and you should be too!

Finally, please consider chipping in a donation of any amount to help us get the word out to more gun owners!

About the idiot in chief and transgender bathrooms

May 15, 2016

There is a lot of concern about this bathroom controversy, and rightly so. The POTUS really stepped on his clit with this one, and that is putting it mildly.

Actual transgenders have been using the bathrooms of there sex reassignment for years, and nobody cared. Why? Because they were already “switched” for lack of a better term.

What concerns most of us are the perverts that will be pretending to be a transgender in order to further their twisted wants and desires…

The Department of Justice can do what they want, so can our idiot in chief. So can the parents etcetera of those affected.

This is how. Say, some lunatic molests your son in the bathroom. You, being a decent parent, shoot the jerk. You go to jail for whatever charges the obamanites can dream up. Jury Trial, no deals… We the people, in front of God and everybody find you not guilty, and the Jury Foreman rips the prosecutor a new anus…

Done deal!

Hey Buffalo Bill…

January 5, 2016

Buffalo Bill Cody is probably turning over in his grave!

Tomorrow (Jan 6) in Cody WY the school board is having what they call a ‘special meeting’ that includes both school board members and state legislators about…guns in schools.

This meeting is so ‘special’ – that they decided the meeting shouldn’t be advertised to the public.

The truth is, they don’t want you to know!

You see, Park county’s anti-gun school superintendent Ray Schulte is working hard to ensure law abiding Citizens like YOU are NEVER allowed to exercise the God-given right to self defense.

And just what is Schulte pushing?

He is in support of legislation strikingly similar to Senator Hank Coe’s substitute bill that effectively derailed the repeal of gun free zones in Wyoming.

And this isn’t the first time superintendent Schulte has been on the wrong side of your right to keep and bear arms. The more that you see him in action, the more you realize he is aligned with Joe Biden, the author of gun free zone legislation.

Here’s the low down…

Schulte in his capacity as superintendent of schools in Torrington Wy —-> testified against repealing gun free zones in a Wyoming Senate committee in 2012.

It was at this moment we discovered that superintendent Schulte doesn’t even trust the citizens who submit to a full background check.

Schulte stated in open committee, “I spoke with our police chief and he told me there over two thousand permit holders right here in out district, can you imagine all of them being in the school at the same time?”

It was shortly after, that the Goshen School board had enough of Schulte…

In June of 2012 the school board voted against Schulte and one board member even stated publicly that, “the superintendent wasn’t doing a good job” and “his salary was too high.”

The Torrington headline actually read, “District Superintendent Ray Schulte does not have the full support of the Goshen County School Board.”

Sadly by the following year, the folks in Cody took him in as their new school superintendent, at an even higher salary of $150,000 a year.

It should be noted that instead of inviting the public to a meeting where the only agenda is about guns, Schulte invited several neighboring district board members – Now you know why it’s called a “special meeting.”

Please contact the following Park county school board members and let them know you are on to their scheme.

Jake Fulkerson
Chairman
jakefulkerson@park6.org
Term Ends: 2016

Julie Snelson
Vice Chairman
juliesnelson@park6.org
Term Ends: 2016

Stefanie Bell
Treasurer
stefaniebell@park6.org
Term Ends: 2016

Kelly Simone
kellysimone@park6.org
Term Ends: 2018

Ed Seymour
edseymour@park6.org
Term Ends: 2016

I have confirmed that the Grizzly Room at the Cody Library is reserved from 6-9pm on Jan 6. I have also confirmed that public comments will not be allowed. If you can be there please do so with a recording device and camera in hand.

In order for WyGO to continue opposing the likes of Superintendent Schulte and Senator Hank Coe, I need your help. Please consider a donation of $100, $50 or just $25 today.

For Freedom,

Anthony Bouchard
Executive Director
Wyoming Gun Owners

So you say you want a revolution; Ladies and gentlemen this is not about a Beatles song.

December 10, 2015

The Left Calls for Confiscating Your Guns in Wake of California Shooting


ACTION:  The anti-gun Left is pulling out the stops and is now calling for gun confiscation.  We have to meet “fire with fire.”  So forward this alert to ten people.  Encourage your pro-gun family and friends to sign up for GOA alerts.

And, you can also give Gift Memberships to your family/friends this holiday season.  We need your support and activism more than ever!


The Anti-gun Left Declares War on Your Gun Rights

President Obama took to the airwaves on Sunday night and told the nation we need more gun control. 

Hillary Clinton — the one who will most likely be the Democrat nominee for president in 2016 — recently called for an all-out war on guns, as well.

And then, for the first time since 1920, the New York Times published an editorial on the front page of their newspaper.

This is important because the editorial page of the Times reflects the thinking of the anti-gun Democrat Left.

And what is the theme of the Times‘ most important message in nearly a hundred years?

In two words:  Gun Confiscation.

The Left “drops the gloves,” calls for gun confiscation

The New York Times said this weekend that:

It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.

The Times continues that there would be no grandfather clause for the 300,000,000-plus firearms we currently own:

[I]t would require Americans who own these kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

So there you have it.  You need to give up your guns — for the good of the country.

Ironically, the editors at The Washington Post are furious with the Times for letting the “cat out of the bag.”

They called the Times’ editorial “predictably polarizing.”

But as one insightful journalist noted, the Post editors are only upset because the Times’ piece confirms “every gun owner’s worst fear — namely, that all the talk about gun safety and reducing gun violence is just a sham, and the real agenda of the gun control movement is total confiscation.”

Gun confiscation has always been the goal of the anti-gun Left

Everyone has known that a Hillary presidency would result in greater restrictions on our Second Amendment rights.


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But now her mouthpiece at the Times has explicitly revealed what we knew already was the case — the Left wants to CONFISCATE YOUR GUNS.

Anti-gun radicals usually try not to say this publicly, because they know that talk of gun confiscation loses elections.

But when caught on “candid camera,” they tell you they want to confiscate guns.

Take Maryland’s Deputy Attorney General — a liberal Democrat — who was recently caught on hidden camera stating “we should ban guns altogether, period.”

Or remember when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) said, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, that among the different gun control proposals that were being bandied about, “[gun] confiscation could be an option.”

Or when several Democrat state senators were caught on an open microphone in New Jersey saying, “We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.”

This is their agenda.

Anti-gunners blame YOU for massacres like San Bernardino’s

In its editorial, the Times lambasted pro-gun, Republican politicians who “abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs.”

That’s what the Left thinks of you.  They think that your rights and freedoms … that your guns which have NEVER harmed anyone — are the problem because you are aiding and abetting killers.

These are the stakes we face in the 2016 elections.

If Clinton wins, we can expect her to push the same Times’ agenda, which will include the elimination of “large categories of weapons and ammunition” — probably by executive fiat.

And we can expect the Obama-packed courts to roll over and ignore the “peculiar wording of the Second Amendment.”

You have eleven months before the November, 2016, elections.

And everything we believe in is at stake.

Please forward this alert and encourage your pro-gun family and friends to sign up for GOA alerts.

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We need your support and activism more than ever!

A Tory to the left of me, and a Tory to the right! Jeb Bush, a Bloomberg clone…

September 19, 2015
It sounds like a broken record playing from the gun control crowd — we just need to pass more laws…

Mandatory waiting periods to buy guns – leaving those who likely need a gun the most, defenseless.

Universal background checks – resulting in the government having a complete list of guns and their owners.

Background check expansion laws – designed to seize guns from gun owners on the mere word of one “mental health staffer.”

Even if you watched the Late Show from front to back the other night—->you still would have missed seeing one of the top tier Presidential candidates describe a utopian gun control agenda – one that the candidate hopes will sweep the nation state by state.

You missed it because it didn’t air – after being taped – likely because the campaign staffers who heard it decided to pull it down for fear that it would hurt the candidate—->they were right.

But this wasn’t a tactical decision by Hillary Clinton’s folks. It wasn’t that loud-mouthed gun grabber Chris Christie who said this. And it wasn’t even something that was said by the radical Bernie Sanders. Nope…

Jeb Bush, when appearing on the debut episode of the new Late Show, came out in full support of radical gun control just a few days ago!

Don’t take my word for it. Listen to what Jeb says for yourself by clicking on the video below.

Of course, Bush planted his words in his professed support for the 10th Amendment, stating that he would prefer each individual state enact the kinds of gun control, just like they did in his home state of Florida.

Worse, it’s obvious from the way he laid this out, that this is exactly what he would like to happen!

He didn’t stumble, he wasn’t trapped by a smart host, and he didn’t misspeak a word here or there. It sounded as if Bloomberg had crafted the words.

This is what Jeb Bush thinks about your gun rights!

Imagine being a homeowner in Ferguson, Mo., last year – watching your city burn – and being unable to buy a handgun to defend your family with because of a government mandated 72 hour waiting period.

Imagine being a homeowner in Boston, stunned as police chased a terrorism suspect around your city for 4 days, and you being left defenseless because some politician decided that you needed to wait 3 days to pick up your firearm.

In all of these scenarios, understand that the criminals are not going to wait around for 3 days to buy a weapon to carry out their plans to assault you or those you love.

You may be thinking, “So what, I’ve already got all the guns I need.” You and me both.

But what about everyone across the country who doesn’t? What about your children when they grow up? What about your granddaughter when she moves across the country for her first job as an adult?

Of course, Bush’s plan to change the mental health laws is designed to make it appear so reasonable that no one would oppose it.

But nothing is more dangerous, nothing is more subtle, than the gun control threat we face from a changing in the mental health code.

You see, under current law for someone who’s deranged to lose their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, they have to be “adjudicated” defective.

Adjudicated means that a judge or jury of your peers needs to be convinced to end those rights.
All of your due process rights are able to be used in this process. You can have an attorney present, produce evidence, confront evidence and witnesses being used against you, etc.

If the government is able to substitute “adjudication” for “declaration” then anyone authorized by the government can, unilaterally, declare you unfit to own firearms!

You can see now why this is so dangerous. This doesn’t affect the size of the magazine in your Colt .45 or whether or not you can own an AR-15. This just flat out leaves you prohibited from owning ANY firearms.

You’d have more rights contesting a traffic ticket than you would the seizure of your constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms if Jeb Bush’s mental health plan became law at the state or federal level!

Just last year Wyoming Gun Owners, with your support, fought and successfully defeated the passage of a bill that would do exactly this right here in the Wyoming legislature!

Background check expansion legislation was introduced in the Senate by Fred Emerich in 2014 and would do exactly what I’ve described above!

With our agressive activism, gun owners mobilized enough to prevent this bill from becoming law here in Wyoming!

Clearly Jeb Bush and his pal Michael Bloomberg want to see this same type of law enacted state by state all over the country!

Jeb Bush and Michael Bloomberg caught while working on the same team

Don’t be lulled off guard by his talk of the 10th Amendment. This simply means that he’d happily see the state government crackdown on your gun rights as opposed to the federal government.

More and more this is exactly what the gun grabbers are doing in response to the stinging defeat they were handed by gun owners on Universal Background Check Legislation proposed in 2013: and now they are taking their fight to state legislatures all over the country.

We’ve been able to stop them so far here in Wyoming.

Now we need to ensure that Wyomingites know all about Jeb Bush’s state-based gun control scheme and that Bush knows that Wyomingites won’t put up with it. Please help us get the word out by:

  1. Calling Bush’s campaign boss David Kochel and owner of the political consultant firm Redwave in Iowa. Call (515) 421-4404 to leave David a message. Make sure he knows you’re calling from Wyoming, that you’re a voter, and that Jeb’s statement on the Late Show tells you all you need to know about his views on the 2nd Amendment.
  2. Contacting Jeb’s national apparatus by leaving him the message on his facebook page. click here
  3. Sharing this email with every gun owner you know in Wyoming – make sure they have the facts about where Jeb stands.

More shenanigans in Wyoming

September 11, 2015

Yesterday on your behalf, I testified at Cheyenne’s city council on the record and against an egregious scheme that will place power in a small group of politically appointed bureaucrats.

This so-called Human Rights Advisory Council measure was led by (Phony Republican) Cheyenne city councilman Dicky Shanor.

The push for these shady local councils – is modeled directly after the similarly named “United Nations Human Rights Advisory Council” – and they first started popping up in San Francisco and neighboring California communities during the mid sixties.

Today these United Nations styled Human Rights Councils span America from coast to coast. And wouldn’t you know, they all have one thing in common…the United Nation’s demand for the confiscation of guns from American citizens as a “human right” for safety.

These councils use a variation of the Delphi-Method to lobby the public as well as influence state government. By using specially picked political appointees that appear as everyday concerned citizens, they push to advance support on a host of progressive ideals, including gun control.

Cleverly this is how politicians can push an agenda — then hide behind a citizen panel, when they ask for your vote at reelection time.

Too bad for them, we’re on to them!

In Wyoming, it’s always the usual suspects like Dicky Shanor pushing the progressive envelope. These Liberal-Progressives work within the confines of the Republican party because they just can’t get elected as Democrats.

Republicans like Shanor, and a Party that refuses to hold their own accountable — is the very reason we must be so critical of the recent statewide Republican fund-raising campaign dubbed – “Grow The Party.”

It should be noted that Shanor was the prior Chairman of the Laramie Republican Party.

And it’s just as it seems, Republican ‘Elitists’ like Shanor quickly find the revolving door into Wyoming government.

It’s flat out sickening that councilman Shanor used the usual tactics to make it difficult for the public to participate in the proceedings by having the hearing at 12 noon, and to schedule the hearing in the smallest room possible with people literally lining the hallway.

All while 20 feet away, the much larger Cheyenne city council chambers were empty. You just can’t make this stuff up!

Besides being a lawyer and city council member, phony Republican Shanor also works as the Chief of Staff of another Phony Republican, Jillian Balow, Wyoming’s Superintendent of Education who testified in both the House and Senate committees against the Repeal of Gun Free Zones in Wyoming.

Like the old saying goes, “Birds of a Feather flock Together.”
Jillian Balow and Dicky Shanor

So yesterday, it came at no surprise, that Dicky Shanor was leading the charge to implement an unscrupulous Marxist government scheme.

The good news is…

On it’s initial introduction we made sure Shanor’s move met hard scrutiny from gun owners.

But here’s the warning…

While the measure was temporarily tabled in yesterdays sub-committee—->Despite the opposition, Shanor stated, in open committee, that he will rework the language and bring it before the council again.

This is why I will be keeping a close eye on every move of Cheyenne’s city council as they act to repackage and reintroduce Shanor’s United Nations scheme.

Remember, as I am at the ready to aggressively push back at Wyoming’s progressive anti-gun politicians—->where ever they may be. This will continue to be possible only because of your financial support.

If you are a regularly reader, but have not become an active supporter – please consider chipping in $10 or $20, so WyGO can remain the strong voice for gun rights in Wyoming.

For Freedom,

Anthony Bouchard
Executive Director
Wyoming Gun Owners

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Wyoming Senators: Silence is anything but golden!

June 4, 2015
We lost by a mere 16 votes, but thanks to your grassroots activism, U.S. Senate Leadership took it in the shorts.

First, the scary stuff…

Obama’s declaration of victory on the passage in the Senate by a 67-32 vote:

Immediately signing the wrongly named USA Freedom Act, Obama stated, “my administration will work expeditiously to ensure our national security professionals again have the full set of vital tools they need…

Now the back story…

While Senator(s) Barrasso and Enzi voted NO on the so-called USA Freedom Act, other Republican Senators who also voted NO, admitted that they did so because the measure “didn’t go far enough” to spy on Americans.

Several hours of floor debate revealed the real imbalance in Congress — only one Republican Senator shined by standing up and pushing real freedom.

Samuel Adams said it best ~ “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

If you want to see this played out in modern politics — watch Senator Rand Paul setting the brushfire on the Senate floor, by clicking here.

The good news is that every single poisonous amendment was voted down, despite the foolish utterances by phony Republican Mitch McConnell.

McConnell proposed four amendments to address what he called the bill’s “serious flaws.”

You just can’t make this stuff up!

McConnell even suggested that Obama’s failed foreign policy was somehow equated to the Senate’s refusal to accept his dangerous amendments that would have further violated the privacy of Americans.

As I watched Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell during this historic defeat, I must admit…it was truly a rewarding experience to see him to burn in the flames.

And you can be proud of being a part of the grassroots brushfire.

But, at the risk of being redundant, Barrasso and Enzi voted correctly while remaining silent.

While thankful that they both voted right, we are at a loss that the Wyoming delegation didn’t stand with Rand Paul in the vocal debate.

Like most politicians, our Senators love to receive accolades for their display of rhetoric in front of Fox News cameras — but where it matters most on the Senate floor, they remain closemouthed.

If the Wyoming Senators want us to believe they were standing on the proper side of the fence — they should have been setting their own brushfires of freedom — instead of leaving the fight to Republican Senator Rand Paul, who single-handedly pushed back at the entire establishment.

For Freedom,

   Anthony Bouchard
Executive Director
Wyoming Gun Owners


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