Posted on 02/18/2011 9:27:00 AM PST by marktwain
Recent events have made it painfully obvious that murderous trouble can erupt at any time and in any place. It is a clear and present danger.
We can no longer afford to pretend such dangers do not exist.
It is irresponsible to continue to imagine that police can be everywhere, or that they can respond with sufficient speed to prevent a homicidal rampage.
Police are second responders. The first responders are always we, the people, on the scene as events unfold.
The time has come to insist upon robust restoration of our right to defend ourselves, to keep and bear arms when and where arms might be needed in public places, to forestall these serious known threats to our safety.
It is time to press forward for nationally recognized right to carry.
It is time to honor and respect the plain meaning of the Second Amendment.
The forces aligned against our civil right to arms are disgracefully using an assassin's heinous crime to foment hatred and attack us. They are plotting in secret to diminish and impair our cherished rights. Now is not the time to simply rebut their power-hungry vitriol and ignorance.
Now is the time to advance a vigorous pro-rights agenda, because it is the righteous response to the problems their anti-freedom efforts have helped to create.
We must at last free people from the governmental chains that bind them, and replace those chains with the fullest expression of rights that are so fundamental to the American way of life.
An uninfringed right to keep and bear arms is the moral high ground.
Efforts to ban or infringe on these precious rights in any way is both immoral and dangerously reckless, putting innocent people in harm's way.
Remove the obstacles to the constitutionally guaranteed right to defend innocent life against whatever evil may confront us.
It is time to secure national carry rights for all law-abiding adult Americans.
National carry must be accompanied by a reinvigorated private effort to educate our children and ourselves in the social utility of firearms, and their safe and legal uses.
The purposes and constitutional roots of this most fundamental right must be reintroduced into the nation's classrooms.
Incentives must be brought forth to rebirth a culture of marksmanship, and to once again become the nation of marksmen the Founders envisioned. It is not enough to simply argue back against those who would deny or restrict our rights with their many and nefarious schemes.
It is time for national carry rights for all law-abiding adult Americans.
Alan Korwin, Author, Gun Laws of America www.gunlaws.com
Editor's Note: See Korwin's model legislation at: http://www.gunlaws.com/ModelLegislation.htm
I’m not so sure about this. It essentially tries to codify a “natural right” in the constitution. This is asking for trouble, because natural rights are not modifiable by the law. If a law is written for them, the assumption should be that the law can be changed, modified and/or corrupted.
Lots of efforts have been made in past to codify free speech, and today there are literally hundreds of exceptions to free speech, that have evolved over time.
In this case, even before the ink was dry on the law “permitting” carry, there would be calls on who should be excluded from that law. Convicts in prison, or on parole? The insane, to some degree, and what about PTSD? Child and spouse abusers? Illegal aliens? Foreign visitors?
Suddenly what had been a “natural right” is eroded. And if it happens at the federal level, it applies to everyone, be they in rural Alaska or Manhattan.
That sounds like a gun control fantasy.
The last effort to federalize such an issue was Roe v. Wade. What a nightmare.
The national government doesn’t need to pass some kind of national carry or reciprocity law. What they need to do is pass a resolution (or law, not sue how this would go) saying that the states, in their current situation, are violating the people’s 2nd Amendment right and need to back off. The states have no more right to require permits for carry than the federal government has.
1934 and 1968, already happened.
What they are talking about is a step to returning to the “natural right” condition. Doing this at a national level removes any state restrictions. First step is forcing nationwide recognition of carry permits just like driver's licenses are now (they were not always). Then you declare it a national right not subject to state intervention and invalidate all state restrictions. etc. The end result is to achieve your “natural right” condition, but not all at once.
“It is time to press forward for nationally recognized right to carry.”
It is time to start removing state and city gun control laws that prevent the carrying of a firearm. Not to pass new gun control laws.
the players will end up meeting in the middle and compromising on NY,NJ and Il style 'law'...
sorry, but id rather keep my flyover rules and avoid liberal/commie crapholes, thank you very much...
I have very mixed feelings about this. I think the rampant federalization of everything is more of a threat to our liberties than the fact that some states don’t honor them. It’s far easier to vote with your feet when the problem is a state than when it’s the federal goobermint. (Motto: “We put the goober in goobermint!”)
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