Hopefully FReeper Palin Smith will have a video of the exchange up on YouTube soon.
2nd Amendment in CT Ping.
The word “but” doesn’t appear anywhere in the 2nd amendment.
“continued to stare at me for the rest of the Q&A”
Sounds like you’ve made an enemy. “A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” - Paul Newman
I believe that free citizens have a right to keep and bear arms without a concealed carry law infringing on your rights!!! Non criminals of course!!!
Pardon me if this is redundant or not your distrct, but if he ever becomes a statewide candidate, then you know this clown likes to infringe on the 2nd Amendment.
As far as I know most states with conceal carry enact reciprocity based on the standards of other states. For instance, the new Wisonsin law creates reciprocity for those with Utah permits (any adult U.S. citizen can apply for a Utah permit), but not those with Minnesota permits.
It is not a hard standard to write into law.
I am a gun owner myself and I support the Second Amendment. Under the Constitution, Americans have the right to bear arms, and it should remain that way.
That was a comment by my former congresscritter Joe Schwarz, a RINO. Schwarz voted against conceal carry. Four years before Schwarz made that comment, he said the Second Amendment did not grant an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Schwarz was fired in 2006 in the primary by Tim Walberg. I like to say that I had something to do with that.
Roraback is also a radical environmentalist, a big government, pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion activist who opposes the death penalty and thinks McCain Feingold didn’t go far enough. He’s to the left of Barney Frank — Connecticut Republicans have to be on crack to support him.
What gives me pause about a national reciprocity statute would be that statute would likely give to the federal government cause to push a licensing scheme into place for all states, thus ending Constitutional Carry (and likely even Open Carry) much as it did with drinking ages.
Looks like talking out of both sides of mouth.