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Pass Constitutional Carry to Reduce Violent Crime, Homicide
After every shooting, Democrats team up with billionaire-funded anti-gun lobbyists like the Brady Campaign and astro-turf groups like “Moms Demand Action” to push for more restrictive gun laws. But the anti-gun lobbyists seem to be on a losing streak lately – in addition to losing two historic Supreme Court Cases in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, they’re getting clobbered by grassroots organizations like Campaign for Liberty and the National Association for Gun Rights, which successfully blocked every piece of anti-gun legislation in Congress.
So with the anti-gun lobbyists on the run, Campaign for Liberty and the National Association for Gun Rights have gone on the offensive – they’re successfully fighting to reduce onerous gun control laws on the state level.
Their signature piece of legislation is constitutional carry, also known as unrestricted carry, which legalizes concealed carrying of a firearm without any government permit. Recently Arkansas, Kansas, and Maine, all passed constitutional carry, joining four other states with similar laws on the books.
Of course, the anti-gun lobbyists and their astro-turf operatives are freaking out, trying to scare voters into forcing a repeal of these laws. They trot out the usual lies: that more guns means more violence, more crime, more murder. But the latest available data on violent crime and homicide tells a different story – it shows that constitutional carry states all had below-average violent crime and homicide rates:
| State | 2012 Violent Crime Rate | 2012 Homicide Rate | 2013 Violent Crime Rate | 2013 Homicide Rate |
| Alaska | 604.1 | 4.1 | 602.6 | 4.6 |
| Arizona | 428.6 | 5.5 | 405.8 | 5.4 |
| Vermont | 142.3 | 1.3 | 114.9 | 1.6 |
| Wyoming | 201.3 | 2.4 | 197.7 | 2.9 |
| Constitutional Carry Average | 344.1 | 3.3 | 330.3 | 3.6 |
| National Total | 387.8 | 4.7 | 367.9 | 4.5 |
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Jonathan Gillispie December 4, 2015 , 10:09 pm Vote0
Great points. I’d actually would love to see a SCOTUS case where they took the model from Kansas, Maine etc and mandate it throughout the nation. Hey if same-sex marriage is constitutionally guaranteed right then what argument is there against owning a gun without any need for permit? And go as far as to requiring govt and public property to allow law-abiding citizens to carry guns on their premises. Of course private companies like Walmart and Starbucks should be allowed to continue to bar guns on their premises as per property rights (regardless how stupid the policy is which it is of course). But public property has no limitations – that includes PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Just a SCOTUS case like that coming up and they striking down EVERY gratuitous gun law and regulation in the country and people being able to buy and carry guns wherever they wish. Leftists everywhere (including two of my sisters unfortunately) would lose their heads. NYTimes headline: Supreme Court lets psychopaths carry guns into schools. Salon.com: Ammosexuals and NRA can now carry guns into public schools says SCOTUS. Crooks and Liars: Supreme Court will have much bloodshed on their hands. Democrat Socialists of California: Children in schools should be very afraid. And just imagine what kind of dissent Ruth Bader Ginsburg would put out; she’d be vicariously attacking the SCOTUS majority and be blathering angry rant after angry rant much like Antonin Scalia after this past summer’s same-sex marriage case. And it’d be delicious leftist tears ahoy on twitter I’d be happily drinking up.
D. A. Price December 5, 2015 , 12:47 am Vote0
I love that the #2A does not define the power of the state, but rather limits it entirely. A militia is anyone, it is not a standing army or state sponsored collective, there was not supposed to be a standing army without Congress’ say-so. Well-regulated means, well trained and really good at shooting and maintaining their arms. Keeping means possession, and bearing means holding. I love the concept of the Constitution and it’s intent, but, it is being dismantled and sadly losing it’s teeth because of corrupt degenerate politicos. The people get the government they deserve, it’s why AnCaps are leaving the United States, or at least minimizing their political risk. I think AnCaps need to go to the Moon, or Mars, or anywhere else we can terraform and start from 0 with no state and true freedom and wealth. I’m rambling. I live in Commiefornia, and it would be nice to have every gun owner open carry on the same day periodically so the state who was started to serve the people is reminded who they serve, and that they serve. Ho hum, fantasy.
Lee Roesner December 5, 2015 , 12:15 pm Vote1
It may be about gun control for the ignorant but “well intentioned” few, but its about way more then “saving innocent lives” for the state. For many of them, the few, it’s all about moving another inch toward “absolute control” over the masses. Period.
Control over your kids education, your health insurance, your retirement…the movies you watch, yes, even your weather, and as well, your ability to defend yourself…ultimately against them. It’s an effort to remove all “choice” in anything critical to the quality of your own life…except to kill your baby, of course, especially when baby parts are a money maker for the state.
And it’s why logic, numbers and empirical evidence alone are of absolutely no use in this argument as they are already aware of it. The ultimate end game for the political class is absolute control: socialism, communism, marxism is alive and doing well, and this “trend” is what needs to be recognized and brought forward in grand display.