Posted on 03/30/2020 5:27:38 AM PDT by marktwain
A group of small business truckers has sent an email to the Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The email asks that, as part of the national emergency involving the Chinese virus, the federal government declare the Second Amendment overrides state law and federal regulation forbidding truckers from exercising their Second Amendment rights.
From transportationnation.com:
The 15,000-member SBTC is calling on federal authorities to preempt state and local laws regarding the right to carry a firearm.
Therefore, in accordance with the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, we hereby request the U.S. Department of Transportation please issue a preemption order nullifying any and all state and local laws that restrict truck drivers from carrying firearms across state lines throughout America in order to enable them to protect themselves and their cargo as they engage in interstate commerce.
As this is now a matter of life and death, please issue same forthwith.
“The SBTC through its TRUCKER LIVES MATTER campaign has sought the unfettered ability of drivers to carry firearms for self protection nationwide since its inception in 2014,” Lamb tells Transportation Nation Network (TNN). “We have pointed to Department of Labor statistics that show the unusually high rates of murders on the road for workers in interstate transportation.”
This is a valid argument. It is vital that trucks keep delivering everything society needs to keep operating during the emergency. During social unrest, there will always be an element attempting to take advantage of the situation.
One argument between those who want the population disarmed and those who believe the population should have easy access to arms is a small scale, utilitarian one.
People who are voluntarily unarmed have a psychological interest in promoting the idea that having a gun makes a person less safe,
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Same sex marriage licenses enjoy reciprocity. Why not CC permits, etc.?
Could see hijacking a problem
Pen and phone time.
Because of the relative importance of the two issues?
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Life on the road is especially dangerous if you deliver toilet paper. They should probably have armed escorts.
I work in the Food Distribution industry - we are already seeing instances where drivers do not want to haul product into some of these “hotspots” specifically for that reason - Chicago, NYC, etc. have always been “dangerous” where people will “raid” your truck when you stop at a stop light, but now, the gangs are gradually “policing” their own neighborhoods and this will only increase as this drags on.
Just knowing that Truck Drivers nationally “could” be armed will likely deter some, and for those that don’t, the working end of .357 Magnum or a 12 gauge can convince the rest.
I think they MUST be armed. We don’t want history books to be talking about The Great Toilet Paper Heist of 2020.
Seriously, they should be packing at all times, even not during WuFlu. They’re crazy not to.
Second Amendment? Meet 10th Amendment.
10th Amendment, meet 14th Amendment.
I’ve never understood why truckers weren’t/aren’t allowed to carry in their trucks.
ARMED AMERICANS!
I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6...
So do drivers licenses.
Until the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal under the Constitution, states could and did refuse to recognize same sex marriage certificates from other states. Concealed carry permits are along the same lines as same sex marriage licenses were. States don't have to recognize them.
“Life on the road is especially dangerous if you deliver toilet paper. They should probably have armed escorts.”
Truckers know all about escorts, armed or not.
Key word, “were”. Eventually this will be tested in the SCOTUS.
All the truckers have to do is go on strike, refuse to deliver food or supplies to any state that doesn’t respect their God-given 2nd Amendment rights. Within a few days those pompous big-city liberals will give them whatever they want.
I’m sure Manhattan and Chicago can quickly figure out how to grow their own food if not.
I’d like to see the 2A applied to Congressional members when they force liberal causes down our throats in the guise of being a “stimulus” package the next go-around. I’d like to see it, but most likely a majority will grab the ankles and take whatever nonsense they throw into the next bill.
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