Senate to vote on NATIONAL Right-To-Carry Reciprocity, Call Your Senator!

[vpchill]

Allow me to clarify now that my rant is over, I do believe in everyones right to bare arms. Yet I feel before we allow people to carry nationally we should create better laws and provisions in each state as far as what is required to own and carry a gun.

If anyone recalls the student gun running issues of a few years ago where students in GA were buying guns and the same guns were being sold in other states?? Two of my good friends were involved in that. How does a gun store owner allow a 21yr old college student to purchase 45 guns.. 21 at one time? Its just foolish and irresponsible.
I just feel more should be done locally before we start allowing people to carry from state to state.

[spywizard]

Allow me to clarify now that my rant is over, I do believe in everyones right to bare arms. Yet I feel before we allow people to carry nationally we should create better laws and provisions in each state as far as what is required to own and carry a gun.

If anyone recalls the student gun running issues of a few years ago where students in GA were buying guns and the same guns were being sold in other states?? Two of my good friends were involved in that. How does a gun store owner allow a 21yr old college student to purchase 45 guns.. 21 at one time? Its just foolish and irresponsible.
I just feel more should be done locally before we start allowing people to carry from state to state.

ahhh.. this legislation was driven, or started for truck drivers that move from state to state.. we as a people are very mobile.. I can conceal carry in 27 states.. what's the issue??

as for the wild west.. in the last 9 yrs here in Minnesota where a "right to self protect" type law has been on the books.... we have had 0 incidents where a licensed citizen has used a firearm in self defense..

#'s out today, violent crime and deaths are at a 25 yr low..

interesting, even with economy so bad..

[vpchill]

ahhh.. this legislation was driven, or started for truck drivers that move from state to state.. we as a people are very mobile.. I can conceal carry in 27 states.. what's the issue??

as for the wild west.. in the last 9 yrs here in Minnesota where a "right to self protect" type law has been on the books.... we have had 0 incidents where a licensed citizen has used a firearm in self defense..

#'s out today, violent crime and deaths are at a 25 yr low..

interesting, even with economy so bad..

Ok spy so I would say you are a responsible party. What about others who are not so responsible?

[mho]

Ok spy so I would say you are a responsible party. What about others who are not so responsible?

This is an invalid argument bro. You can't punish an entire group of law-abiding people for the actions of criminals.

[TITANIUM]

All he is trying to say, is reciprocity will make it safer for the law abiding sector.It will also make it easier for law enforcement to deal with not knowing the laws of other states.OK, here is a example, your drivers license is good in all U.S. states.That is reciprocity in itself.

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[thegodfather]

in a perfect world this would be acceptable.. too bad too much scum to give a liberal right to carry.. even if you abide by that states legislation

It is because the world is imperfect, and full of people who might want to do us harm, that LAW ABIDING CITIZENS should have their right to defend themselves no matter where they are within the United States.

VPChill, try to use an analogous situation to what you are saying. Say that 10 black people rob convenience stores. Should I conclude from that black people are too irresponsible to go into convenience stores because they might rob them, so now I will ban all black people from convenience stores? Of course not, that is an absurd argument. It is just as absurd to say that because of a few THOUSAND people who do irresponsible, criminal, and wreckless things, that we should penalize the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of law abiding responsible gun owners in the United States.

You take a driving test because driving is a PRIVILEGE and NOT A RIGHT. Owning a firearm is a RIGHT, that is why the government should not require training to own firearms.