With Beebe gone, Darr signs secret gun list bill
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 22, 2013 at 2:40 p.m.
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LITTLE ROCK — A bill shielding from the public the identities of 130,000 Arkansas residents permitted to carry concealed handguns was signed into law Friday by Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Darr while Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe was out of state.
The move, which immediately makes the list exempt from Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act, comes a day after Beebe said he would allow the measure to go into law without his signature on Monday despite his opposition. Beebe was in Washington on Friday for the National Governors Association’s winter meeting.
“Having been an outspoken advocate for Second Amendment rights, I felt passionately that there should be no delays in signing this bill into law,” Darr said in a statement issued by his office.
A spokesman for Beebe did not immediately return a call Friday.
Arkansas law had already exempted all but the names and ZIP codes of concealed carry permit holders from release under a compromise struck between lawmakers and media organizations in 2009. Beebe said he was opposed to the proposal because it went against that compromise, but decided against vetoing it because of the overwhelming support it had in both chambers.
Overriding a veto takes a simple majority in Arkansas, and Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature. Governors in the past have allowed measures to go into law without their signature as a way to show their objection without vetoing bills.
Sen. Bruce Holland, R-Greenwood, proposed making the entire list secret in response to a New York newspaper’s decision to publish the names and addresses of concealed carry permit holders following December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and 6 adults.
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Jackabbott says... February 22, 2013 at 3:37 p.m.
This is undemocratic. Hiding from the public is the mark of tyrants, has been throughout history. These people are going backwards and passing silly, goofy legislation and now trying to cover their tracks.
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dimebag says... February 22, 2013 at 3:54 p.m.
print my name, i don't care that anyone knows i have a conceal carry permit. my roomate in college had a sign over our apartment door. this apartment guarded by shotgun 3 nights a week, you guess which 3.
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LR1955 says... February 22, 2013 at 5:03 p.m.
This went through the House, the Senate, and the Gov office, about as democratic as you gonna get. Go get yourself a CCL FERDIE and join the frucus!
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BillSmith says... February 22, 2013 at 5:59 p.m.
Arkansas is fifth most religious state in the US.
As of 2012, the child poverty rate in Arkansas was an average of 26.8 percent, and ranked as the second worst in the U.S.
Arkansas ranks 4th in Teen Birth Rate per 1,000 Population Ages 15-19, 2010.
As of 2005 Arkansas ranked 14th in infant mortality rate.
In 2011 Arkansas ranked 9th in adult obesity rates
The South has the highest percentage of people who are too heavy.
In 2007 Arkansas ranked 6th in the Nation of states with the most obese children, we tied with Texas.
Arkansas ranked 45th in 2011 on per capita income.
Texas ranked 32nd in per capita income.
Arkansas ranks 38th in spending per student at just more than $10,000
Ahead of Texas with $8,746.
Can you believe we beat Texas?
Arkansas ranks 6th out of the 10 states where the most people go hungary.
My Question is what are all these Christians doing to elevate these conditions?
Guess what 3 abortion bills, soon to be 4 gun bills
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inquire says... February 22, 2013 at 6:20 p.m.
You really can't expect much of substance out of Mark Darr. He's our tea party Lt. Governor. The one who ran on a platform of overturning the affordable care act. He ran for an office that he didn't even comprehend. Overturning federal legislation does not fall under the job description of state Lt. Governor. Both he and those who voted for him are ignorant. Being the tea party fiscal conservative that he is, he also bought a McMansion that his salary would not pay for and was up for foreclosure a few months back.
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... February 22, 2013 at 6:20 p.m.
If people go hungary does that mean they get no goulash?
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DontDrinkDatKoolAid says... February 22, 2013 at 6:33 p.m.
"Hiding from the public is the mark of tyrants, has been throughout history." Would that include Law Enforcement Officers? Didn't think so.
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... February 22, 2013 at 7:12 p.m.
So do they make McMansions out of hamburgers with a sign out front that says 25 trillion served?
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... February 22, 2013 at 7:20 p.m.
I think I figured this out. If you don't vote for who inquire does you are ignorant, and it is the banks' fault when people buy more house than they can afford UNLESS they are a conservative. I wonder if his house had a basement?
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DEMOCRATREPUBLICAN says... February 22, 2013 at 8:52 p.m.
Way to Go Darr. You da man.
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DEMOCRATREPUBLICAN says... February 22, 2013 at 8:55 p.m.
National Inquire, why do you laugh when a Republican loses his house, but a democrat that used his houses equity like an ATM loses his house, he needs a government assistance refinancing with reduced principle compliments of the taxpayers. And I thought you cared National, I really did.
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inquire says... February 22, 2013 at 9:03 p.m.
I am in favor of everyone, regardless of party, buying the house they can afford. We did, and that's why a copy of the deed is in the lock box and we were never under water a single day. I am so sick of you people trying to lay opinions on me that I do not have.
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... February 22, 2013 at 9:24 p.m.
inquire-you blamed the banks for everything until a conservative lost his house. You also said everyone who voted for Darr was ignorant; we know for sure that is nothing but an opinion. So we are as sick of your lies and hypocrisy as you are of everything else.
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inquire says... February 22, 2013 at 9:34 p.m.
Where is the log where you supposedly have such an accurate memory for every word I've ever written? You are a loud mouthed, smart mouthed bully. You might be surprised how many are sick to death of it. No one likes a bully, even if some cower before him. You have less and less of substance to say. You just bully people.
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... February 22, 2013 at 9:47 p.m.
You said in this thread that anyone who voted for Darr was ignorant. Jiminy Christmas how stupid can you make yourself look inquire? You hate me because I point out your hypocrisy. Of course you NEVER EVER point out things people have said before do you?
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T6 says... February 22, 2013 at 9:50 p.m.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm! Wonder why we didn't see this on any leftard sites? Guess it was deemed not as important as all things Obama.
foxnews. com/politics/2013/02/22/nasa-missile-defense-tech-leaked-to-china-sources-say/
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T6 says... February 22, 2013 at 10:22 p.m.
RedWings... ROTFL!!!! Thanks for the entertainment! Inquire makes it so easy for you, doesn't she?
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tuskerfan says... February 23, 2013 at 5:35 a.m.
The bad guys are the targets, not people with CCL's. A New York newspaper has no business linking law abiding citizens in Arkansas with a school shooting by publishing their names. The bill was going to be law anyway and the majority of Arkansans agree with it. The fact that Darr signed it into law is merely a political stunt and will probably do him more harm than good.
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BillSmith says... February 23, 2013 at 9:12 a.m.
Why another article on this topic? Overkill?
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lazybar says... February 23, 2013 at 9:35 a.m.
i would imagine that the ones who feel this was undemocratic are the same ones who feel obamacare was democratic.
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T6 says... February 23, 2013 at 9:38 a.m.
Lazybar.... You got that right just like Bush wars bad, Obama wars good!
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arta says... February 23, 2013 at 12:46 p.m.
Jack you aren't considering privacy laws. FOI can't supersede an individual’s right to privacy. FOI was designed to keep your government from covering up things we as citizens have a right to know. Just because you want to know doesn’t mean you get to know. Go to court if you need to find out some specific information on an individual and prove that need to a judge. The reason the New York paper pulled the list down was because they were going to get sued. A judge had already said that the paper could be held liable if someone’s home was invaded in the area they reported. FOI rules state you can’t provide the information if it compromises an individual’s safety.
If my kids are in public schools, you shouldn’t have the right to know where they live or anything else specific about them from government records.
84 to 3 house members disagree with you along with 24 to 9 from the senate and 31 other states that have put a similar law in place. That goofy law is dealing with the other goofy FOI law that is abused to the hilt!
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snapper1 says... February 24, 2013 at 5:08 a.m.
Religious?(WHO)?
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mkm157 says... February 24, 2013 at 8:43 p.m.
Darr is just a half step more intellegent that Rapert and that ain't saying much.
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NoCrossNoCrown says... February 24, 2013 at 10:50 p.m.
I guess Darrth Vader thought he would grow some nads by signing a bill thast would become law anyway....another stoopid frat boy move.....
Mark we all know you are Lt Gov,
you don't have to remind us of the mistake of putting you in that title.. #idiot
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SoonerHawg says... February 25, 2013 at 8:15 a.m.
As a right-leaning, too-much-"gub'ment"-involvement-is-a-bad-thing kind of guy, concealed carrier and supporter of this bill.....I am in NO WAY happy about this nitwit stepping in and doing something like this. It reeks of unethical, back-door politics that I am wholly against.
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If this was some left-wing legislation that I disagreed with, I would be ready to march on this guy's office. What an A$$hat!!!
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