Should People Be Allowed to Carry Guns Openly?
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Why not? They do carry guns openly without any permitting process in Vermont, one of the most socialist states in the Union, and there are no daily shoot outs,
as direly predicted by the left and their whining
progessive commie supporters.
In fact Vermont crimes of personal violence, car jackings, and burglary of occupied homes are almost non existent compared to other states, relatively speaking.
Yes.
[[Should People Be Allowed to Carry Guns Openly?]]
No, we shoudl all passively go limp and allow people to bash our heads in agaisnt a sidewalk- after all, we wouldn’t want to upset the thugs, now would we?
One of the best reasons is so a person will not be prosecuted for inadvertently letting their concealed weapon to be seen.
If you were a criminal about to snatch a purse, carjack someone or rob a quickie store and noticed law abiding citizens around you sporting their hoglegs....would ya take the chance?
How bout mom's or dad's walking their children to the bus stop with their legally displayed weapons holstered to their waist....would’ya try to snatch a kid?
What if you were in a gang of thugs about to pummel some innocent white guy to smithereens with bricks, chairs and golf clubs if you'd looked over to see bystanders carrying smoke wagons eyeballin ya....would ya?
All Americans who aren’t currently incarcerated should be allowed to carry firearms.
Residents of Idaho may carry a firearm openly, but very rarely do so unless engaged in hunting ungulates, coyotes, wolves, bears, and the like. A permit is required to carry a weapon concealed.
People are openly gay, why can’t they be openly armed?
This isn't rocket surgery. Open, concealed. Long gun or pocket pistol. Broad sword or a Howitzer...
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Anyone trying to restrict that Right under the guise of "public safety", "reasonable regulations", or some other fictitious boogeyman are taking away your freedom. Not just yours, but mine to.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've completely had it with those who are willing to accept their slave chains and demand that we do the same.
Although it is perfectly legal, I’d carry a 12 ga. shotgun with me everywhere I went, but I know that the LEOs would harass me to without mercy, so I don’t.
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Absolutely.
Of course. The big issue for me is concealed-carry without a permit. That’s the way it should be everywhere.
allow???
The article went off the tracks at that point...
Wrong question. The question should be rephrased as: Should the Government be allow to take away the rights and freedoms already protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights by prohibiting the carry of firearms?
Importantly, easing up on gun laws has a lot of momentum right now, but the gun control nuts are looking for an opening, and will likely be able to muster a lot of money from their left wing billionaire friends in a hurry, as well as MSM support, for an “anti-gun reaction”.
So if states are thinking about easing their gun laws, now is the time, or they may find themselves facing a barrage of anti-gun propaganda and funding designed to overwhelm their state legislature. Legislators are not terribly strong, and turning up the heat on them can often make them decide to pull “contentious issues” off the front burner. And once momentum stalls, who knows how long it will be before it can be regained.
Importantly, reciprocity agreements with other states are also very important, because it makes things much harder to change back to the way they were. They are in effect treaties, that have to be renegotiated. For example, if OK made a reciprocity agreement with AZ, then any Oklahoman who traveled to AZ and got a piece of paper the state is handing out for its reciprocity agreements, the Oklahoman could carry both openly *and* concealed, *in* Oklahoma, without further problem, even if the OK legislature changed its mind.
The simplest solution is to make ALL gun crimes federal crimes. IF you use a gun while committing a crime you spend 25 years in jail. And, if you fire the weapon while committing a crime you spend the rest of your natural life in jail.
PROBLEM WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF!
“Be allowed?” It’s your right. It’s the law of the land of our nation.
We had a case a couple of years ago where a man was arrested and jailed by Norfolk Police for open carry in a city park. Case went to the Virginia Supreme Court, where the ruling was that open carry is lawful by state law and municipalities cannot overrule the state law.
Of course. And swords if they want.