I am 100% all for open carrying a sidearm.
Are you really? Because that sounds a lot like what the politicians say about firearms in general right before they try to restrict our rights.
#1- I believe people should still have to go through background checks with credible references phsyc[sic] checks etc before being handed a permit. (you dont[sic] want felons or crazies running around with pistols)
I don't know why this keeps being thrown out. Why should you have to submit to a one-time background check to carry. We have to take a one time driver's test, and see how many people out there now drive irresponsibly? No one-time background check is going to prevent anyone from committing a crime in the future, and a constant monitoring of people who carry would be unethical, illegal, and too expensive for too little benefit.
And for felons and 'crazies', why can't they carry, again? Why does someone with a treatable medical condition lose the right to self-defense? Why does someone who has never committed a violent crime, but nevertheless falls victim to the government's manufactured definition of 'felon', lose the right to self defense? What if the government decides jay-walking is a felony? What if the government decides getting angry is a psychiatric condition?
#2- I believe every permit owner should have to take a saftey[sic] course on the basic workings of a handgun. and they should have to be a certain age 18 is what I think. (basically for the same reason you cant drink until your 21 RESPONSSIBILITY!![sic] and i believe you should have to have basic saftey[sic] for just that reason basic saftey[sic])
You can't be serious. When I turned 16 I was responsible enough to DRIVE a deadly weapon?Then at 18 I was magically responsible enough to carry the ability to violently end a human life? Then when I turned 21 I was finally, magically, responsible enough to hold my liquor? I believe that every gun owner and carrier ought to take safety classes or otherwise learn to use the weapon they have chosen. I believe the government should monitor the ones teaching the classes to make sure they are not taking advantage and leading people astray. I don't believe they should choose for me what classes to take or what I can do before or after I take them. Responsibility has everything to do with the individual and nothing to do with how long he has been alive.
#3- I believe people should have to add all firearms legally to their permits and should have to add guns to their permit whether or not it was bought at retail or private seller
because you never know where or from who your buying a pistol from.
What possible good could come of this? I want to hear one example of where lives were saved because someone registered a gun that they otherwise lawfully acquired.
I dont[sic] agree with people walking around with hammers cocked and ready. one in the chamber is fine but you shouldnt[sic] be hot all the time.
I guess I'm out of luck. I will have to carry condition 3 or risk a ND to comply with your absurd abstraction of what is and isn't a safe way to carry. I promise you that my cocked and locked 1911 is just as 'safe' as, or 'safer' than, any Glock. The most important safety is the one between your ears, and yours seems to be in need of repair.
these are just a few of my opinions. A scumbag criminal will not open carry and a handgun is like a fire extinguisher you need to have one but hopefully wont ever have to use it. police officers are not always the fastest ones to the scene. please respond to this post and please keep it friendly. also if there are any other new yorkers on thiis site please let me know and lets get some open carry rallies going!!!!!
You lost me at 'a scumbag criminal... is like a fire extinguisher'. I appreciate you taking the time to post your opinions, but they are mostly ill-informed and poorly presented. I hope you took the time to read my replies, and I hope you take them to heart and reexamine your position.
