Do you have a Georgia Firearms License, allowing you to carry a concealed weapon? Could you pass the fingerprint background check and get one if you wanted to? If so, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence considers you a dangerous person.

The Vitter Amendment was submitted in 2009 but a new similar bill has been introduced in 2015 – expect the same hysterical response.

The silly anti-gun Brady Bunch sent out at least seven emails in the two weeks before the Vitter Amendment was voted on in late July. The Vitter Amendment was an amendment to the Department of Defense funding bill that would have allowed people with a gun license from one state to carry a gun in other states.

Right now you can drive in every state in the US with a driver’s license issued to you in your home state. You still have to obey local traffic laws, and the Vitter Amendment said you had to obey local gun laws when in other states. But the gun control fanatics went crazy opposing this amendment.

This is a quote from a July 9 2009 Brady Bunch press release on the Vitter Amendment: “This legislation would force states, your state, to allow dangerous individuals to pack heat in public.” So they consider you a dangerous individual if you have a Firearms License! Here is more from a July 17 press release: “Very dangerous legislation that would force states, your state, to allow dangerous individuals to carry loaded guns in public could be voted on as early as Monday, July 20. And we must stop it!”

This amendment failed by a 58 to 39 vote in the US Senate. No, 58 US Senators voted in favor of your rights. Only in the US Senate is a 58 in favor to 39 against vote a defeat! The amendment had to have 60 out of 100 votes to pass.

But the Brady Bunch was ecstatic! On July 22, after the Vitter Amendment lost although it got 58 yes voted out of 97 cast, the Brady Bunch crowed “You helped stop the gun lobby’s legislation that would have forced states to allow dangerous individuals to carry loaded guns in public.”

Yep, now law-abiding citizens like you and me who have gone through a fingerprint background check to get a concealed carry permit can’t cross a state line and be legal. No doubt someone planning on robbing a convenience store across the state line will stop and leave their illegal handgun in the car because this amendment failed.

It is not rational to limit law-abiding citizen’s rights to reduce crime. By definition, criminals break laws. All gun control laws do is disarm law-abiding citizens and make them vulnerable to criminals.

Both Senator Isakson (R GA) and Senator Chambliss (R GA) voted in favor of this amendment to protect your rights, as did all but two Republican US Senators. There were 37 Democrat votes against your rights and only 10 Democrats voting in favor of your rights.

Thank Senator Chambliss and Senator Isakson for voting to protect your rights. And also thank Thurbert Baker, Georgia State Attorney General, for signing a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder expressing his opposition to reinstatement of the federal ban on semi-automatic firearms.

Baker is one of 23 state Attorneys General, the top law enforcement officers in each of their states, to sign this letter. That is amazing. The top law enforcement officers in almost half our states oppose renewing the assault weapons ban. Kinda makes claims that banning these guns will reduce crime look stupid, doesn’t it?

So far US Attorney General Eric Holder is the only one talking about bringing back this useless ban. Most elected officials realize it is a useless law and voting for it will hurt them politically. But, unfortunately, there are unelected folks like Holder that can affect our gun rights.

On a good note, HB 45, the Blair Holt Firearms Licensing Bill, is going nowhere in the US House. It was introduced in January by anti-gun Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL), got no co-sponsors and was assigned to committee where it still sits, dying a slow death. Bills that are so stupid they don’t even get one co-sponsor usually don’t have enough support to ever be voted on. It probably will never see the light of day.

Keep a watch on our elected officials but keep a closer watch on those unelected bureaucrats that control our lives.