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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) The Utah House of Representatives and the Utah Senate have announced they will consider two resolutions regarding Critical Race Theory and Utah becoming a Second Amendment Sanctuary state during a special session on Wednesday.

The announcement from the Utah Senate comes after Utah Governor Spencer Cox left Critical Race Theoryand making Utah aSecond Amendment Sanctuary out of the special session agenda, saying in a letter to state lawmakers the two issues would benefit from more time, thought, dialogue, and input.

While Im sure someone might be able to point out differently, I cant remember these types of hot-button issues ever being put on a special session call. Its not that I disagree with the desire to act, but doing it the right way and at the right time will lead to better legislation, Gov. Cox added.

The Senate Majority Caucus said they are against Critical Race Theory being taught in Utah schools, saying in a statement to ABC4:

Everyone is created equal and should be judged by their character, not the color of their skin. For this reason, we oppose critical race theory being taught in schools. American history should be taught in a way that highlights our countrys highs and lows, triumphs, and mistakes. We do not want to erase or bypass history, but we need to prevent schools from endorsing discriminatory concepts.

The Senate Majority Caucus says they do, however, support making Utah a Second Amendment sanctuary state, saying in part, We are committed to protecting the Second Amendment rights defined in the U.S. Constitution by our Founding Fathers. Our most important duty as legislators is to preserve Utahns freedoms, including the freedom to bear arms without government interference.

The Utah House of Representatives announced they would also consider resolutions on Critical Race Theory and Second Amendment Sanctuary State.

In a statement to ABC4, Speaker of the House Brad Wilson said in part,

Utahns not federal bureaucrats must remain in control of what is taught in our schools to ensure students understand both positive and negative events in American history, and their duty to be engaged, respectful members of society.

Wilson continued, Similarly, constitutional rights should not be subject to the whims of executive orders. We are committed to working on legislation that reaffirms and safeguards the constitutional right of Utah citizens to keep and bear arms.

The Utah House Democrats released a statement opposing the Utah Senate hearing the resolutions, saying in part, We oppose holding an extraordinary special session to address the proposed issues not included on the Governors special session call. Democrats were excluded from discussions, we reject such divisive action, and we oppose the content of the resolutions,

Gov. Cox has authorized 22 issues to be considered by lawmakers during the special session. This includes budget issues involving federal funds available through the American Rescue Plan, bills passed in the2021 session, and new bills that include a prohibition on face mask requirements in schools and changes to electronic cigarettes.

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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City in January 2021. She's in favor of Second Amendment Santuary status for Utah.

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[Update: Second Amendment sanctuary wont be considered during this weeks legislative special session]

Lawmakers will meet Wednesday in special session, primarily so they can accept more than $1.5 billion in federal coronavirus relief money.

But a gun rights issue did not make it onto the agenda.

This is despite significant lobbying to persuade Gov. Spencer Cox to include a bill declaring Utah a Second Amendment sanctuary on the agenda for next week.

The idea would allow the state to ignore new federal laws or regulations on firearms that lawmakers believe violate the Second Amendment, which affords people the right to bear arms. It could extend to judicial rulings or executive actions by the White House.

Experts say even if lawmakers passed such a bill, it would be mostly symbolic because federal law trumps any state provision.

The state has no authority under the constitution to eliminate a provision of federal law, says University of Utah law professor RoNell Jones. The Supremacy Clause makes clear that if state law and federal law conflict, federal law prevails.

States have leeway over how they use their own resources to help, or not help, in the enforcement of federal law. But that does not extend to individual citizens.

A person who is running afoul of a particular federal law will still be in violation of that law, even if the state makes some statement opposing it. All of the relevant federal agencies will still be able to enforce the law against those citizens, and no declaration from the state can invalidate that law. The constitution does not give them that authority, she said.

The bill is championed by Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield.

I hope its on the call, said Lisonbee via an email to The Tribune. Utah needs to join the many other states that have passed Second Amendment Sanctuary bills over the past few years.

Lisonbee did not provide any specifics on what her proposed legislation would do.

Gov. Coxs office would not comment directly on the legislation.

Utah legislators appear to be hitting the gas on expanding gun rights in the state. Earlier this year, Cox signed a bill eliminating the need for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in public. That effort was stymied for nearly a decade by Coxs predecessor, Gov. Gary Herbert, through vetos or threats of veto.

Rep. Cory Maloy, R-Lehi, tried to pass legislation earlier this year to make the state a haven for the Second Amendment. That effort died after Republicans in the Senate decided the permitless carry bill was the priority as they looked to avoid a backlash from voters.

Maloy previously said lawmakers planned to study the issue over the summer and fall before bringing a bill to the 2022 session.

Lisonbee did not explain why she believed the issue was so urgent that she wanted it to be considered in a special session rather than wait for the 2022 General Session.

At least 10 Utah counties have taken steps to declare themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries, and nearly a half-dozen others are moving in that direction.

Lawmakers in Texas are currently debating several bills that would prohibit state agencies and local governments from enforcing new federal laws on guns. A bill in Ohio rejects federal gun legislation in the name of states rights under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

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Lawmakers will meet Wednesday in special session, primarily so they can accept more than $1.5 billion in federal coronavirus relief money.

But a gun rights issue may sneak onto the agenda.

Legislative sources tell The Tribune that there is significant lobbying to persuade Gov. Spencer Cox to include a bill declaring Utah a Second Amendment sanctuary on the agenda for next week.

The idea would allow the state to ignore new federal laws or regulations on firearms that lawmakers believe violate the Second Amendment, which affords people the right to bear arms. It could extend to judicial rulings or executive actions by the White House.

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MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) Alabama Rep. Shane Stringer is no longer a captain with the Mobile County Sheriffs Office, the office announced Friday.

According to the MCSO, Sheriff Sam Cochran made the decision Wednesday because of different political views held by his administration.

The MCSO statement did not specify those differing political views.

But Stringer later Friday morning issues a news release stating he is proud to defend Second Amendment gun rights despite losing (his) job over Constitutional stance.

Stringers new release states that Cochran fired him over the his stance on the issue.

The Second Amendment gun rights of Alabamians are under attack from a liberal federal government that is out of control and even from some factions right here at home, Stringer, who previously served as the chief of the Satsuma Police Department, said in a statement. After dedicating my life and career to law enforcement, losing a job because I stand in support of Alabama gun owners is certainly surprising, but nothing will discourage me from defending the constitutional guarantees promised to all of us as American citizens.

Sringer said Cochran notified him on Wednesday that he was being fired as a captain within the department because he is sponsoring constitutional carry gun rights legislation as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives.

Stringers House Bill 618 would allow Alabamians to carry or conceal a pistol without first obtaining a permit from their local sheriffs office. Some local sheriffs have opposed legislation such as Stringers because they have come to depend upon fees from the permitting process as a revenue generator for their offices, and others have expressed safety concerns, Stringers news release states.

The U.S. Constitution does not say you have a right to keep and bear arms as long as you pay what amounts to a gun tax in the form of permit fees, Stringer said. It says you have the right to keep and carry firearms, period.

Stringer said that despite Cochrans action, he remains committed to his legislation and to the Alabama law enforcement community.

As a state legislator, I swore an oath to God that I would support the U.S. Constitution, and this legislation does just that, String said. And whether or not I am employed by the Mobile Sheriffs Office, my heart and soul will always belong to the mission of enforcing the law and to my fellow officers who seek to protect the men, women, and children of Alabama.

Stringer joined the MCSO in 2018.

That same year, Stringer, a member of the Republican party, was elected as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing District 102. His current term ends in November 2022.

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Jordan Peterson addresses students at fhe Cambridge Union on November 02, 2018 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Photo by Chris Williamson / Getty Images)

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To prepare for writing about Jordan Peterson, I asked numerous people I know what they thought of him. They all gave the same answer: Who?

Friends, where have you been? Petersons 2018 book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, sold 5 million copies and has been slated for translation into 50 languages. His YouTube channel has 3.68 million subscribers.

According to the man himself, he is so famous that a waiter recognized him in a restaurant and thanked him for changing his life, which cannot be said, Im guessing, for any other clinical psychologist in the world, or possibly any other Canadian.

This is quite an achievement for one whose work is crammed with references to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, the Bible, ancient Mesopotamian deities, Jesus, and Jung, and which, under a lot of sexist, conservative, mythological/biblical/evolutionary/animal-behavior folderol, basically tells men to grow up and grow a pair. Work hard, be responsible, demand more of yourself, make your bed. Peterson dragged that simple message out for 370 pages of unbelievably clotted, dreary prose, proving once again that your creative-writing teachers were wrong: Nobody cares about the quality of the writing if the message is what the reader wants to hear. Apparently there are a lot of men (most of his fans are men) who want to be told exactly how to stop making such a mess of their lives (Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back) and also that human beings are a lot like lobsters, programmed for hierarchy and combat. You can buy Hail Lobster T-shirts, pillows, limited-edition neckties, and even smartphone covers on his website. Scientists have said hes got lobsters all wrong, but whatever. I will never feel guilty about eating a lobster roll again.

You might think 12 rules were enoughby Rule 12, Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street, Peterson seemed to be reaching a bit. He obviously didnt think so, because his new book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, offers a dozen more and weighs in at 432 pages. Preorders made it reach Amazons Top 10.

Why would so many people want to be hectored by an unpleasant know-it-all whose most recent contribution as a public intellectual was advocating an all-meat diet? The rules are mostly familiar self-help platitudes, which Peterson drags out for dozens of pages each by bringing in everything from his patients and family to Isis, Osiris, and Tolstoy.

Rule 7: Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Rule 10: Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Rule 12: Be grateful in spite of your suffering. There are plenty of cats out there for you to pet.Current Issue

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There have always been men who want to be told exactly what to do to get what they wantin this case, women. Men, you may have noticed, have had a harder time getting quality girlfriends now that women dont have to marry to survive. They have to make more of an effort to be boyfriend material, let alone husband material, and this is not easy for the ones who think a beautiful, complaisant helpmeet should be handed to them on a platter. At worst, these young men become incels, raging at both feminists and alpha men who corner all the pretty ladies. Peterson shares their pain. Hes said some unwise things about how enforced monogamy would solve the problem, by which he did not mean the government doling out wives, as is sometimes claimed, but restoring social pressures to marry. (Good luck with that.) But he is also their drill sergeant: Clean your room. Be good at your job. Life is tough, but remember Rule 11: Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.

Not surprisingly, Peterson takes a dim view of feminism. Basically, he believes all women want to have babiesthey just dont want to have them with a manbaby. This contradictionpatriarchy is good, but men are flubbing itleads him into all kinds of strange places. Famously, he contends that symbolically, men represent order, women chaos. Really? Shouldnt that be the other way around? Who, after all, is cleaning and tidying, cooking, reorganizing the fridge, remembering to pick up the dry cleaning and send out birthday cards and put the parent-teacher conference on the calendarusually while holding down a job as well? Compare the apartments of single men and women in their 20s: Which sex is sleeping on sheets that havent been changed in three months? Maybe men were orderly in the distant past, for example when they served in the Roman armyall that building of forts and organizing of equipment Julius Caesar wrote about, to say nothing of keeping ones armor and weaponry polished and ready for action. But today? Theres a reason why a young man who fails to launch is described as living in Moms basement. Good old Mom. She probably still does his laundry.

I have no doubt that some people have been goaded into self-improvement by Peterson. He is quite right that peoplewomen as well as menneed meaning and purpose in their lives, need to find things they care about and to try their hardest to be good at them. Caught between the belief that they deserve to move forward without having to compete with pesky women, and the fact that the milestones of adulthood, like marriage and parenthood, may be economically out of reach, men can find it hard to resist cheap cynicism. But like it or not, we are social beings, so Rule 1: Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Fortunately for the sarcastic among us, carelessly leaves a lot of wiggle room.

When it comes to stern and sober life advice, the best book is still Marcus Aureliuss Meditations, which has been guiding people through the struggles of life for at least a thousand years and is, moreover, well-written and short. Its advice can be summarized as follows. Rule 1: Try as hard as you can to be a good, responsible, serious person. Rule 2: Be aware that much of life is out of your control. Rule 3: In any case, soon you will be dead.

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