Notes from the Resistance
53% of the 21 states with restrictive concealed carry laws have violent crime rates higher than the national average. 55% of states with a violent crime rate below the national average have permitless carry. [More]
And practically 100% of the violent crimes are committed by people who don’t qualify to carry under either scenario and have no business having access to the rest of us.
It’s an improvement, but before gun owners start cheering over “illegal possession” being a “win” for “law and order,” consider Illinois…
Check out some of the idiots in comments.
[Via Antigone]
The March 5 compromise comes after the House and Senate could not come to agreement on several provisions of the bill… [More]
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends upon what the meaning of the word “infringed” is.
[Via Jesse J]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
I am still holding out hope that a permitless carry bill of some stripe will pass the North Carolina General Assembly this spring. It will need a spending or fiscal component attached to it. We almost had it passed through the House of Representatives at the crossover deadline until opposition from the NRA caused Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) to pull the bill. [More]
Tell us more. Name names.
Louisiana becomes nation’s 28th state with constitutional carry law on the books: ‘landmark victory’ [More]
Let’s not go too over the top. It’s better than it was, bnut there are still plenty of presumptuous infringements.
“Mental health is already downhill,” said student Loran Jackson. “Why would you even try to put a gun in their hands when they’re mentally not thinking all right?” [More]
The only one in this story mentally not thinking all right appears to be you, Loran.
And the “goal would not be to take another human life,” Virginia, and if you decide to carry, take that language out of your vocabulary lest it come back to haunt you. The goal is to stop an attack, to live.
[Via Jess]
A comment left under my latest AmmoLand piece on the couple victimized by latter-day “pirates of the Caribbean”:
In an effort to travel to Puerto Rico with my weapon, I have thought of boating there. That is why I contacted my state:
Keith Davis
Deputy Commissioner, Operations
Department of Public Safety
Jackson, MississippiI did this to secure weapon reciprocity between Puerto Rico and the State of Mississippi, as per the law of each entity.
Initially he did respond, but has not returned my last email and did not follow through on his promise.So far, I have not traveled to Puerto Rico. I will not travel with out my weapon.
Until we change things in the minds of others who run these affairs, I am land locked.
With the passage of the Weapons Acts of 2020, Puerto Rico will now honor all state concealed carry permits once the NPPR Commissioner establishes memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with states and/or territories of the United States…
Here’s the Puerto Rico Concealed Carry Reciprocity Map. Mississippi being yellow means “Yes with restrictions,” which under States That Have Restricted Reciprocity with Puerto Rico” says “(permitless carry, at least 21 years old).”
You might want to tell Keith Davis and MS DPS “Thanks for nothing.”
As my shameless CYA disclaimer, I guess I have to add that I’m the last person in the world you want to take legal advice from, because when I don’t like gun laws, I’ve been known to endorse breaking them. Just publicly admitting that, where LE can (and does) read it, should be warning enough.
Item last, and tangentially related, I wish I’d remembered this when I wrote my article, but it’s been years and I didn’t, I call your attention to “How Gun Control ‘Worked’ in Jamaica” by longtime colleague Tina Iwalani Terry.
A bill introduced in the Georgia House this week could expand the presence of guns on private property. The bill would make property owners legally liable if a gun owner gets hurt on property where they aren’t allowed to carry a gun. [More]
That could make my cards obsolete:
So… does it have any chance of passing or is this pre-election posturing?
[Via Jess]
We have two citizen disarmament cases wending their way through two courts, but they both rely on essentially the same thing: superstition relying on ancient barbaric belief systems that say the people exist to serve rulers rather than the government exists to serve the people. [More]
We are supposed to be beyond rule by kapu, where offenders are severely punished for offending the gods, which judges and politicians increasingly portray themselves to be when they presume to deny unalienable rights.
Pro-gun permitless carry law closer to passage in Louisiana [More]
So naturally, Democrats and the porcine prevaricators at the FOP are resurrecting the old “blood in the streets” hysteria that reality never bears out.
[Via bondmen]
84% of states have a lower violent crime rate in 2022 than they did before permitless concealed carry [More]
So the “Dodge City blood in the streets over fender-benders!!!” crowd is wrong again?
Provides relative to the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons lawfully without a permit. [More]
Now that vetoing Democrat John Bel Edwards is out, it’s time for NRA A+ rated and endorsed Jeff Landry to strut his stuff.
[Via Jess]
There are no places evil can’t go. Limited, though, are your choices to stand up against evil and stop it. Ideas are being discussed everywhere about how to protect our schools. The insurance companies have threatened to drop school coverage on schools that protect children and staff by exercising the right to self-defense with a firearm. [More]
Which insurance companies? Name names.
Are they the only ones, or the only ones the schools are doing business with? What about state rules saying if you want to do business here you can’t discriminate?
From an email conversation I was having about cops, oaths, and pensions with Hershchel:
I had a similar experience with a “pro gun cop” who claimed to support 2A that I had been corresponding with a while back–
I asked him – since he knew who I was and knew I would not do anything criminal with it – if asked if I let him know I was peaceably carrying concealed and did not have a permit because it is my right to bear arms, would he arrest me?
After hemming and hawing and excuse making, I finally got him to admit he would “have to” enforce the law.
I recall writing this up on the old blog– perhaps even having the conversation in comments under a post — but it’s been years and I don’t have time to try and find it, assuming I even could…
Rather than grousing about the cost of red books, the correct solution is to seek legislative redress from the General Assembly by allocating funding for the program. [More]
Me, I’d just get rid of permits.
But you need them for reciprocity to carry in other states?
Like I said, I’d just get rid of permits.
The South Carolina State Senate is in the second week of debate regarding a bill that would allow handguns to be carried openly in the state. House bill 3594, known as “Constitutional Carry,” is supported by most Republicans in the General Assembly… [More]
What’s to debate?
And why “most” instead of “all”?
Who are the @$$holes?
[Via Jess]
After Media-Brutalized Gun Freedom Law, Violent Crime Drops In Florida [More]
Didn’t help this poor guy, though.
I see Forbes was one of the guilty DSM parties.
I remember when Steve was trying to con gun owners into thinking he was a pal. NRA, of course, fell for it, but they’ve covered their tracks by deleting their video “Steve Forbes – a New President to Put Forward a PositiveProgram.”
[Via Edmund M]
United States residents traveling to the Bahamas should exercise “extreme caution” in Nassau in the wake of 18 murders since Jan. 1, the State Department said in a new travel advisory. “Murders have occurred in all hours including in broad daylight on the streets,” according to a security alert that was posted on Jan. 24 by the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. [More]
Bahamas law does not permit the carrying of concealed weapons.
Neither does the cruise ship that gets you there.
Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry… As the bill is currently written, local and state law enforcement officers are not exempt from the insurance requirement. [More]
There is no new thing under the sun.
Democrats wold rather see you dead than armed.
And an ignorant constituency that will be most infringed on by this will continue to vote for Terri Hill in droves.
[Via Jess]
Now, even Californians who have submitted to extensive background checks and participated in hours of training can’t legally carry their firearms without running afoul of the list of banned places — which, let’s be honest, are just about everywhere. [More]
So…Kismet: How do you vote?
And lest you think hell has frozen over and the LA Times has done an about-face on guns, read the last pararaph.
[Via Lawrence P]
A recent Florida district court decision is being misreported or may be misinterpreted as holding that the Postal Service’s ban on carrying firearms — either openly or concealed, or storing them on USPS property — is unconstitutional. [More]
Well, it is.
Here’s one way to make it known.
West Virginia Senate OKs bill to allow veterans, retired police to provide armed security in schools [More]
It’s still way too “Only Oneish” for me. Character and judgment don’t change just because you cross an artificial prioerty line, and killers won’t care anyway.
I suppose you could argue it’s an incremental improvement, but when we saw cops get nationwide carry recogniton with LEOSA, how many made inviting those of us footing the bill to sit at their table a priority?
[Via Jess]
Data posted at the Gun Violence Archive website shows 2023 produced fewer homicides, suicides, and gun-related injuries than in 2022, which indicates expansion of permitless carry laws, allowing more people to carry firearms for personal protection, did not result in more bloodshed as anti-gunners predicted. [More]
Someone ought to write a book with that title…
Judge Says New Gun Ban ‘Openly Defiant’ Of Supreme Court Rulings [More]
And remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse!
Did Loosening Gun Control Cause A Nationwide Drop In Homicides? [More]
I’m not sure this factors into predator decisions on whether a person looks like a victim or not. Let’s be careful with claims. Just because the other side does it doesn’t mean they won’t point and scream when “our side” does…
For now I’ll take “they didn’t go up.”
File this under “Further Study Justified.”
[Via bondmen]
Frankel, D-Allegheny, said he is introducing the legislation – which would penalize gun owners who illegally bring firearms into TSA baggage checkpoints by revoking their permit to carry… [More]
Who thinks that’s all he wants?
[Via Jess]
