(WV Governor) Manchin signs ‘Castle Doctrine’ bill

[Lasher]

CHARLESTON — Lifetime National Rifle Association member Joe Manchin ceremoniously signed West Virginia’s version of the Castle Doctrine with a blunt warning Thursday to would-be home invaders.

“Don’t mess with us,” the governor cautioned while signing the bill backed strongly by the NRA in its national campaign to put such laws on the books in all 50 states.

For two years running, retiring Sen. Shirley Love, D-Fayette, pushed the measure, varieties of which are law in 20 other states.

“This has been a long time in coming,” he said as Manchin summoned supporters to a table where he used ceremonial pens to sign the historic measure.

“It’s a bill that could affect all West Virginians. Hunting, the right to bear arms, the Second Amendment have been a heritage of West Virginia because our motto says, ‘Mountaineers are Always Free.’ And it shows the Mountaineer with his rifle.”

http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_101220344.html