Posted on 11/19/2016 10:33:48 AM PST by monkapotamus
Radio talk show host and entertainment icon Howard Stern used the considerable reach of his SiriusXM platform on Tuesday to voice his support for a national interstate concealed carry reciprocity law.
This law has been NRA’s number one legislative agenda item for several years. And with the election of Donald Trump as president, as well as pro-gun majorities in both houses of the U.S. Congress, the prospects for such a law have never looked better.
Trump has formally endorsed the concept of interstate reciprocity in a position paper published on his campaign website and in a number of other public statements. According to his position paper:
The right of self-defense doesn’t stop at the end of your driveway. That’s why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states. A driver’s license works in every state, so it’s common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state. If we can do that for driving – which is a privilege, not a right – then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege.
Howard Stern and his longtime co-host, Robin Quivers, echoed those sentiments in their own comments. “When you think about it,” Stern said, “somebody is a legal and responsible gun owner – let’s say in Massachusetts – why when he crosses the border is he suddenly an outlaw?” As Quivers elaborated on how current law requires state-by-state licensing for concealed carry and how Trump’s proposal would protect licensees traveling interstate, Stern interjected, “Makes total sense,” and, “I support that.”
Quivers also pointed out, correctly, that the majority of concealed carry licensees “are the most law-abiding people in the country.” She continued, “So why not give them the right to carry wherever they are?” She and Stern additionally invoked the analogy of a licensed driver and noted (with typically colorful Stern show language) that requiring drivers to be licensed in every state through which they traveled “doesn’t make any sense.”
Howard Stern has previously expressed his support for the Second Amendment on his show, insisting that law-abiding citizens should be left to decide for themselves how many firearms and of what type they should own, as well as how much ammunition they should keep on hand. Robin Quivers has expressed a similar opinion, noting that when it comes to criminals and their firearms, “They don’t have any rules there.”
The views Stern and Quivers expressed on Tuesday also reflect those of a majority of the American people, who believe, according to a 2015 Gallup poll, that the United States would be safer if “more Americans carried concealed weapons.”
You can BET this will be attached to a “must register your firearm-just like you registered your car” outpouring in 5...4..3..2..1..
WHAT! And let the little people worry about their own affairs and self defense? Who would have thought such a thing?
Howard is all over the map. Loved Reagan back in the eighties, went with Clinton in the nineties, supported GWB after 911 and then went against him over Iraq. Went with Oabama and Hillary over abortion. Now he’s with Trump on the 2nd Amendment.
Howard Stern is simple to figure out.
Whatever current most strongest personal drive is controlling him, that is what shapes how he makes decisions.
Obviously that hour his drive for self-preservation was dominant.
This should have been enacted decades ago.
Hard to believe those in government have been infringing upon the rights of millions of law abiding Americans.
Enough!
Trump needs to realize that rights don’t require government permission nor fees?
Really? For decades the government oppressors have defecated on the Constitution. The right to carry for any law abiding citizen should be a given, but that is not what the controlling oppressors want. Right now they want to control and limit American rights and throw people in cages who disobey them.
I wonder how this would play out for the long suffering denizens of “may issue” (read: almost no issue) states like New Jersey and Maryland, among others?
I’ve been wandering in the no CCW desert for 60 years.
Add to this, the SCOTUS argument for nationwide same sex marriage would apply to the 2nd amendment as well.
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