Posted on 12/23/2012 1:52:50 PM PST by GreaterSwiss
Nowadays, however, there are four states that require no permit at all to carry a gun, and 35 states have permissive shall issue or right-to-carry laws that effectively take the decision of who should carry a weapon out of law enforcements hands. These laws say that if an applicant meets minimal criteria one is not having been convicted of a felony, and another is not having a severe mental illness officials have no choice about whether to issue a permit.
Some states go even further by expressly allowing guns where they should not be. Nine states now have carry laws that permit guns on campuses; eight permit them in bars; five permit them in places of worship. In Utah, holders of permits can now carry concealed guns in elementary schools.
Among the arguments advanced for these irresponsible statutes is the claim that shall issue laws have played a major role in reducing violent crime. But the National Research Council has thoroughly discredited this argument for analytical errors. In fact, the legal scholar John Donohue III and others have found that from 1977 to 2006, shall issue laws increased aggravated assaults by roughly 3 to 5 percent each year.
The federal government could help protect the public from lax state gun laws. For starters, the Fix Gun Checks Act, proposed last year in Congress, would close gaping loopholes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and make a huge difference in identifying many people who should be denied permits under shall issue laws yet slip through the state systems.
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Nowadays, I dont think its beyond the realm of possibility...
That would only happen if you happen to be unlucky enough to be among the first Americans to be confronted by said jackbooted thugs. It will only take a handful of such incidents to ignite a nationwide response that will provide the nation a deep and enduring lesson about the real reason for the 2nd Amendment.
It will also result in the complete repudiation and extermination of all things leftist in this country. If the left wants to see their political philosophy and all its adherents banished to the four winds of the globe, I say Bring It. They'd be doing us all a favor, in my opinion.
Wait until Zimmerman gets properly let off in a pre-trial hearing. The NY Times and MSM will really love that!
Oh Noooos! Whites can just walk up to and execute blacks! /s
They want to disarm us sheeple - after all, guns mustn't "fall into the wrong hands." We can't be trusted with a super-sized soda. How in the world can we be trusted with a gun?
Liberals don't like federalism and they hate the Second Amendment.
You will note that all of these loud mouth Mayors and Governors all have armed local police, state troopers or private armed guards whereas they would like to leave the common citizen unarmed. People should be asking Bloomberg and his fellow hypocrites why they need armed protection and their citizens do not.
Is Obama a liberal?
Here’s a good question to ask the Politicians:
Why are you draining the citizens of their hard earned tax money to pay for security guards for yourself, and refusing to pay of security for our children?
Apparently you think you are more important to us than our children. If that is what you think, then you are brain dead stupid.
Declare yourself and the place where you work a “gun free zone” and prove that you really believe the crap you are trying to feed us.
I wuz walking the dog at a County park the other day and saw a practice session of SWATing a School Bus and a City Transit bus.
(Plus we've seen one of the local SWAT (we have both City and County) teams doing pt in the park (they looked like it would be time well spent to help reduce their drag on 0bamaCare).
The only “scourge” of concealed weapons is keeping the things that way. Open carry would be much more comfortable if not for the reactions of the bigoted.
Yep, it's going to be a choice between going out in a blaze of glory (eventually, after a few interactions)) or taking the blue pill presented by 0bamacare.
Ha! I call Austin Hanoi in the Hill Country....
Yep, and Phoenix is East East L.A.-..............
Your query reminded me of something. I was at my cousin’s bank the other day, waiting for him to do some business inside. On the door is a gun with a circle around it and a line through the circle. BUT, the bank has an armed guard inside at all times. Now, I wonder why the armed guard was employed if the sticker on the door was thought to deter crime in the bank? ... Yeah, I know, it’s the liberal mental disconnect. Magic Thinking gives liberals a thrill, but money is something just too precious to them to let their mental disorder (MT) endanger their monies.
Exactly. In fact, MSM Gregory’s children go to the same school as the Food Stamp President’s children do which has 11 or 12 armed guards at all times. He is one of the biggest MSM pimps mouthing off against having armed guards at schools.
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