EXERCISING THE RIGHT
South Dakota Passes Constitutional Carry
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed her first bill into law on January 31. It goes into effect on July 1, 2019 and authorizes the permitless carry of firearms, meaning that residents of South Dakota will not need to obtain a license from the state in order to carry a firearm on their person. This will make South Dakota the 14th state to allow concealed carry without a permit. NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox applauded the move and hailed the law as “a common sense measure that allows law-abiding South Dakotans to exercise their fundamental right to self-protection in the manner that best suits their needs.”
In signing the bill, Noem proudly exclaimed, “More than 230 years ago, the Founding Fathers of our country penned the Constitution that has since laid the framework for centuries of policies. They so firmly believed in the importance of the freedom to bear arms that they enshrined it into the Constitution’s Second Amendment…. This constitutional carry legislation will further protect the Second Amendment rights of South Dakotans.”
Registered Sex Offender Shot During Break-in
WITN reported out of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on February 1 about an encounter in which a man with a criminal past involving a sex crime attempted to break in to someone’s house. Thirty-eight-year-old Tyrell Johnson tried entering the residence through a back door around 6:30 a.m. The homeowner confronted the man and demanded that he stop. Johnson didn’t comply with the homeowner’s lawful orders, so the homeowner was forced to shoot him twice. The injured suspect fled the scene and drove to a nearby medical facility, where he was listed in fair condition. WITN reported that Johnson is a registered sex offender because he had a 2008 conviction for a second-degree sex offense. He was also convicted for manslaughter around the same time. Johnson was released from prison in August 2017, but was labeled a parole absconder, which means that he most likely stopped making his mandatory contact with his parole officer and could no longer be contacted.
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