Would you carry an unloaded one? CBS’s 60 Minutes is Very Concerned over guns being loaded
The showdown over the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
Of all the political and cultural issues that divide red states from blue ones, none is more volatile than guns and who can carry them.
Conservative rural states like Arizona and West Virginia allow almost anyone to carry a loaded firearm in public, while in urban states and big cities, it can be a felony.
But a piece of legislation quietly churning its way through Congress may change all that by making gun permits more like driver’s licenses, transportable across state lines. If you are allowed to carry a concealed weapon in your home state, you would be allowed to carry it in all of them.
Loaded.
Robyn Thomas, the executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, says forcing states to accept any and all gun permits would make the weakest laws in the country the new norm.
Robyn Thomas: Someone who lives in Nevada, who’s able to carry a loaded, concealed weapon in Nevada could now bring that loaded gun into Los Angeles, into San Francisco, and carry their loaded weapon, even though in San Francisco that’s not someone who would get a permit.
Steve Kroft: So this law would essentially usurp the gun laws in cities like New York and Chicago and Los Angeles.
Robyn Thomas: Absolutely.
Loaded (and, shockingly, the 2nd Amendment takes precedence over State law)
Scott Yarbro: For me, it’s just a way of life. It’s like when I get up in the morning and I get dressed, I get my wallet, I get my watch, I get my keys, I get my phone. It’s the same thing to get my gun.
But in most big cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York, guns are a cause of fear and concern, not comfort. And law enforcement has lined up against strangers from far away places walking around their cities with loaded guns in violation of their own laws.
Loaded. Though Scott supports this.
The central tenet of Concealed Carry Reciprocity is that the Second Amendment gives people the right to carry guns anywhere they want but that idea is more aspiration than factual.
Steve Kroft: Is there such a thing?
Robyn Thomas: Absolutely not. In fact, the Supreme Court has ruled on the Second Amendment in 2008. And what the Supreme Court said is that you have a right to have a handgun in your home for self-defense. And it absolutely does not include a right to carry a loaded, concealed weapon in public. And right up until the Supreme Court says it is your right, that is a fallacy that they’re pushing, in the hopes that it will become the truth. But it simply isn’t the truth as of right now.
Loaded. I missed the part in the 2nd where it says specifically that you can only have a gun for home defense (which liberals try and stop, as well)
But Tim Schmidt of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association thinks it should be.
Steve Kroft: The Bill of Rights doesn’t say that anybody could walk around with a gun in their pocket or a gun in their hostler– a concealed weapon. It doesn’t say that.
Tim Schmidt: Steve, with all due respect, it actually does. It says you have the right to keep and bear arms and it shall not be infringed. Telling me where I can and can’t carry a gun, telling me where I can and can’t protect my family and loved ones, that’s an infringement. Yes, that’s gone on for a long time in our country, but we’re finally fixing it.
Kinda the point of “keep and bear arms”.
Loaded ones.
If this passes, I might just have to get my concealed carry permit, just for when I visit the parents in NJ. Of course, since people can’t see a concealed firearm, it takes the fun out of watching liberals freak.
