Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumAmerica's Next Top Shooting Gallery
If that sounds like an exaggeration, then take a look at the radical, pro-gun proposal just endorsed by Governor Nikki Haley, the Tea Party favorite who is running for reelection this year, after a tumultuous first term. Crafted by state Senator Lee Bright of Spartanburg, one of Lindsay Graham's opponents in the GOP Senate primary, the Constitutional Carry Act would eliminate the states permit and training requirements for citizens who want to carry guns.
Thats right: If you were a resident of South Carolina and wanted to carry a weaponconcealed or otherwisethen under this law you could. No classes, no tests, no background checks, no questions. I have no problem with gunsI grew up in a gun-owning household, and Ive used firearms myselfbut this is insane.
Sen. Bright, explaining the proposal, told The State newspaper that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to carry firearms without any government restrictions. Permits, in other words, are unnecessary. And Governor Haley, offering her take, told reporters that criminals are dangerous, and that she thinks that every resident should be allowed to protect themselves from criminals.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/13/america-s-next-top-shooting-gallery.html
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Even an ardent 2A supporter like me, or, actually, ESPECIALLY a 2A supporter like me, knows that the "well-regulated" phrase of the amendment allows for such measures as requiring background checks and training.
The Senator is a Moran.
Richardo
(38,391 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Oh wait, they have among the lowest homicide rates in the country and Wyoming has the lowest robbery rate. I take it Chicago, New Orleans, and DC have constitutional carry cave outs? Oh wait, that isn't it either.
Although I have some problem with "constitutional carry" for the most part, fear of the place turning into a "shooting gallery" isn't one of them. Why? Because it hasn't happened anywhere else.
It is really a stunt to unseat Lindsay Graham. Nothing more and nothing less.
DonP
(6,185 posts)This weasel is just recycling the old "shootings over parking spaces" fear mongering crap that comes out every time a state adopted CCW, and then, when it never happens, they slip quietly away.
In Illinois we're still getting that stupidity, but when you ask them for any example of where that actually happens they slink away. Well, some are so dumb they point to Chicago murder rate, not realizing they don't have CCW implemented yet. But I expect them to conflate gang shooting with CCW anyway after its in place.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...what will you do? Retract this post? Apologize? Admit your predictions were wrong?
Honestly, the noise and thunder and moral panic and dire predictions of legalizing pot, legalizing same-sex marriage, and people routinely carrying concealed in public continue to fail to live up to reality.
Eleanors38
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ileus
(15,396 posts)What a dumbass writer.....I bet he's a guns kill people true believer.