Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Pass the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act

Matthew Larosiere has an excellent explanation of the proposed Concealed Carry Act at The Federalist. As Larosiere writes:
Calling The Concealed Carry and Reciprocity Act an affront to state sovereignty would be a great argument prior to the Civil War, but a little thing called the 14th Amendment renders the argument moot. The 14th Amendment forbids states from abrogating the people’s constitutional rights. All the Concealed Carry and Reciprocity act would do is serve to prevent a state from punishing people for constitutionally-protected activity, in a manner much less severe than the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
If you believe preventing people from being punished for exercising a constitutionally-protected right is against a state’s right, you must, by extension, find the Civil Rights Act a violation of state’s rights. The Civil Rights Act was comparatively much more forceful with the states. It actually overrode discriminatory state laws, while the Concealed Carry and Reciprocity Act simply prevents states from punishing interstate travelers for doing something specifically protected by the Constitution.
The Concealed Carry Act would not affect any States's laws, except that it would treat concealed carry licenses like drivers licenses. How would New Yorkers feel if every time a New York license plate showed up in North Carolina, they were arrested for not having a North Carolina license? After all, don't we have as much interest in ensuring that New Yorkers follow our traffic laws as they have in ensuring we follow their gun laws?  That would be considered foolish, and that is what happens many times when a concealed carrier travels outside his or her own State.

Read the whole thing.  As you will see, it really doesn't do anything.  There won't be blood in the streets, because the people who have concealed carry aren't running around creating blood in the streets now.  You generally won't know they are there, because they keep their guns concealed.  It really won't affect your life any more than when a New Yorker drives though our State.

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