From an article in the Washington Post re public comments by the new mayor of D.C. Muriel E. Bowser.

“You have a mayor who hates guns,” she said. “If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2015/01/09/muriel-bowser-you-have-a-mayor-who-hates-guns/

Alan Gura has successfully litigated the Palmer case in D.C. re CCW, though D.C. has been dragging it's feet ("in the most restrictive way possible"), and the court has given the district various time extensions to implement CCW in a Constitutional manner. The mayor and vast majority of the city council would prefer that no one in the district be allowed to legally have a handgun in public (nor at home for that matter). Sound familiar?

I post this here because I believe this position of lip service to their sworn oath of office to protect and defend the constitutions while actually doing the exact opposite via lawmaking and enforcing, is that of many Hawaii legislators and bureaucrats, though they won't come out and say it directly in public, but rather it's expressed in their attempts to incrementally pass legislation that continues to remove our rights as guaranteed by the Second Amendment. So I'm hoping that such comments will further inspire us to spend a few minutes each day taking some action (perhaps calling or writing a legislator or bureaucrat, or casting a magic spell upon the judges of the Ninth Circuit, etc.) in an attempt to influence those who make the decisions about the legal status of our rights (of course they have no influence on our actual rights, just what might happen to us if we exercise them).

"....I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

WTF? kind of statement is this?... Blatant in the disregard for the oath sworn! What kind of people get elected when blatant disregard of the people, rights, and the constitution is so openly verbalized, yet no accountability or repercussion?!?!?!   SMH

"....I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

WTF? kind of statement is this?... Blatant in the disregard for the oath sworn! What kind of people get elected when blatant disregard of the people, rights, and the constitution is so openly verbalized, yet no accountability or repercussion?!?!?!   SMH

The kind that assure citizens that if elected they will guide government to make choices for, and for the benefit of, citizens, because citizens are too stupid/uninformed/naive/deluded to know what's best for them? Also, promise lots of free stuff.

As I wrote in another thread, this attitude is exemplified by the recent comments of (sworn oath of office to uphold the constitutions) former Hawaii Attorney General David Louie in claiming that the CCW question isn't about Constitutional rights, which are irrelevant, because this is a question of "public policy", and the government knows best in these matters, trust them.

I have received a copy of senator Gabbard's 2015 CCW bill, which isn't numbered yet and isn't on the Hawaii.gov website, but it appears on cursory reading to be very very similar, if not identical, to the 2014 version: SB2353, which is archived here:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2014/Bills/SB2353_.PDF.

I asked senator Gabbard (and senator Slom whom I haven't heard back from yet) what specifically I could do to assist in helping the CCW bills move through the legislature. Gabbard wrote that he would let me know as things progressed what I (we) could do to help.

"....I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

WTF? kind of statement is this?... Blatant in the disregard for the oath sworn! What kind of people get elected when blatant disregard of the people, rights, and the constitution is so openly verbalized, yet no accountability or repercussion?!?!?!   SMH

Comrade Stalin would be most pleased.

You can tell they are losing the battle, they are becoming more and more insulting.