Why the United States Should Nationalize Concealed Carry Laws
Currently, under federal legal precedent it is legal for states to allow concealed carry with a permit, or even with no permit at all, says Laurie Ekstrand, established author. By nationalizing concealed carry laws, all states would have to have the same regulations governing concealed carry, making things much simpler than in the status quo. Because this would require permits to be issued and background checks to be conducted before concealed carry would be allowed, things would be much safer. This would also impose strict regulations on who can carry a concealed weapon and where they can carry it, thus making the chances of accident or misuse much slimmer.
Some opponents of this legislation may argue that because this bill encourages gun sales, it also encourages crime. This, however, is untrue. According to the FBI and the US Department of the Treasury, in 2005, gun sales were up 2.6%, while gun crimes were down 2.4%, with the overall trend since 1998 being that firearm and ammunition sales were up 27.7%, while firearm crimes were down 7%. These statistics clearly prove that just because more guns are sold, there are not more firearm crimes. But, if you're still not convinced, look at Florida for example. David Kopel, Research Director at Independence Institute comments on Florida's concealed carry experience: "What we can say, with some confidence is that allowing more people to carry guns does not cause an increase in crime. In Florida, where 315 thousand permits have been issued, there are only 5 known instances of violent gun crimes by a person with a permit. This makes a permit-holding Floridian... 840 times less likely to commit a violent gun crime than a randomly selected Floridian without a permit." If the rest of the country behaved like Florida's permit holders, the United States would have the lowest homicide rate in the world.
Furthermore, the Lott-Mustard Report proved that allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons does not increase gun crime or fatal gun accidents and may actually decrease them. As you can see, for the reasons presented above, such as the fact that allowing more people to carry guns does not cause an increase in crime, or that fact that an increase in gun sales has not been should to cause an increase in crime, nationalization of concealed weapons laws would make our country much safer and would make things simpler. For this reason, I urge you to support the nationalization of concealed carry laws.
Published by C Tripp
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6 Comments
Post a Commentusually the ones that commit crimes using a firearm do not legally own it or have a ccw so why do they always blame all these violent firearm crimes on the people that have followed the rules, have a ccw, and legally own their guns?
Unfortunately, the likelihood of nationwide reciprocity would be onerous standards and arbitrary exclusion. We do not need more government regulation of one of our basic rights.
Standardize RECIPROCITY %28As in Driver%27s licenses%2C etc%29 - OK. But not CC laws. Such laws can only serve to make it easier later for restrict%2C and ban guns.
This is not about gun control, it's about standardizing the laws for CCW at a national level rather than the wide range of laws at the current state level. Gun control and CCW are two different things.
Backdoor gun-control.
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Two things:
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[1] In NO PLACE of the U.S. Constitution, nor in any of the amending article, is the United States given the authority to regulate the exercise of individual rights.
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[2] The Second Art. of Amend. specifically states: The Right of The People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall NOT be Infringed.
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Ergo, any thought to demand ANY KIND OF PERMIT is without a doubt an INFRINGEMENT of that Article of Amendment.
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The writer should have simply said: ENFORCE THE LAW OF THE LAND!
No, what the government should do is get out of the gun control business all together. The Second Amendment is suppose to RESTRICT government from INFRINGING upon our RIGHT to keep and BEAR arms. It has no business regulating our RIGHT. Instead of INFRINGING on our RIGHTS it should be arresting those who abuse their RIGHTS, the criminals.