Thanks for the response, guys!
I understand the concerns, and before I opened the thread I researched schools in the area to make sure we wouldn't be stepping on that big toe. I recall an issue a few years back where Garden of the Gods, also a C-Springs park, was posted against open carry. It was determined that was not lawful, as there was no city ordinance prohibiting it, so the signs were removed about 3 or 4 years ago. I've OC'd at Garden of the Gods on numerous occasions without a hitch.
Memorial Park is also a C-Springs park, and thank you,
PikesPeakMtnMan for your quick survey. That's not to say there won't be signs the day of the Balloon Classic, but if that's the case, we'll obey the law and go find a hearty breakfast somewhere else.
I am sincerely hoping we don't find such signs, however. Now is not the time to cave into political correctness. Nevertheless, we can, while exercising our Constitutional rights, continue to be exceptionally polite! Seriously, folks, I think this even would help return some of the confidence of our citizenry in... our citizenry. Each and every one of us has the right to keep and bear arms, and by "us" I'm not talking about OCDO folk. It'd be a dang miracle if we showed up and EVERYONE was carrying! Ha-ha!
Oh, well - I can dream, can't I?
I close with the following:
The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms therefore, is a right of the individual citizen to privately possess and carry in a peaceful manner firearms and similar arms. Such an "individual rights" interpretation is in full accord with the history of the right to keep and bear arms, as previously discussed. It is moreover in accord with contemporaneous statements and formulations of the right by such founders of this nation as Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, and accurately reflects the majority of the proposals which led up to the Bill of Rights itself. A number of state constitutions, adopted prior to or contemporaneously with the federal Constitution and Bill of Rights, similarly provided for a right of the people to keep and bear arms. If in fact this language creates a right protecting the states only, there might be a reason for it to be inserted in the federal Constitution but no reason for it to be inserted in state constitutions. State bills of rights necessarily protect only against action by the state, and by definition a state cannot infringe its own rights; to attempt to protect a right belonging to the state by inserting it in a limitation of the state's own powers would create an absurdity. The fact that the contemporaries of the framers did insert these words into several state constitutions would indicate clearly that they viewed the right as belonging to the individual citizen, thereby making it a right which could be infringed either by state or federal government and which must be protected against infringement by both.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
REPORT
of the
SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
of the
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
Second Session
February 1982
Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1982
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