Posted on 01/05/2023 3:56:32 AM PST by marktwain
Why everyone needs to open carry. An armed society is a polite society.
Happy to be of service, Dean. No one is right 100% of the time. Well, no one but me anyway.
Best,
L
***Open carry of firearms has been the most protected part of the right to bear arms.***
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below. then followed by over 800 paragraphs trying to prove blacks were not citizens and had no such rights.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
Thank you for the correction. It is much appreciated.
There's a caveat, though...government gets to define "peaceable".
Believe me I wish OC were legal here. In fact the General Assembly is working on a new AWB right now. And it’s absolutely awful. Magazine capacity limits, a change to the FOID to add an “assault weapon certification” and a whole bunch of other bad stuff.
Our gun club is running a phone bank lighting up phones at legislators offices to see if we can stop this thing in its tracks.
L
Not quite there yet.
However, we have been moving to a place where the government defines and re-defines words to its advantage at will. Moving toward 1984, if you wish.
There is starting to be some push-back.
Those in power are desperate to stay in power.
Technically it’s legal if you are a licensed hunter, fisherman, or trapper and actually engaged in those activities. Otherwise, nichts.
While open carry is protected in Colorado and somewhat common in some areas, it is decidedly not allowed in the City and County of Denver. Just FYI.
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