MT: S.B. 127 Gutted & Tabled in Committee

By Iain Graeme

Montana Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans Betrays our Nation’s First Principles!
In a shocking display of wilful ignorance concerning our Nation’s First Principles, Senators Usher and Lamers vote for an amendment that gutted Senate Bill 127.
S.B. 127 would provide the citizenry with a grantor of a judicial proceeding and the right to appeal for appropriate relief from the courts. It affords individuals who use or threaten to use force in self-defense reimbursement of reasonable costs and expenses involved in their legal defense.
Simply put, the bill strengthens the legal protection for individuals who are compelled, through no fault of their own, into a position of having to exercise their God-given right to defend their life, liberty, property with arms from external coercion.
Additionally, this legislation provides a prudent check upon the power of government by giving prosecutors or other government officials, who might be driven by foreign ideological beliefs that do not comport with the nation’s First Principles, a necessary pause before they proceed with pursuing a course of action against a citizen that would result in vulgar a miscarriage of justice.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Laura Smith (D, D 79) proposed three amendments that effectively gutted the original intent of the

Source: Gun Owners of America