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Pagan wrote:
Our constitution doesn't say anything like that. I fail to see why it's a protected right to open carry, yet is a privilege to cover it with my jacket, a "privilege" the state has denied me for three years even though I have no criminal or arrest history. When did we start slicing and dicing our rights? Did we decide that we have the right to be Christian but you have to pay a fee every 5 years in order to practice Judaism?
Pagan wrote:
I am. Other states have constitutions that say "nothing herein shall prohibit the regulation of carrying concealed weapons".I am not oppossed to background checks for a CHP, but that is not restricting excercising of a Civil Right, IMO. But any kind of regulation making purchasing or carrying a weapon in plain sight more difficult should simply be done a way with.
Our constitution doesn't say anything like that. I fail to see why it's a protected right to open carry, yet is a privilege to cover it with my jacket, a "privilege" the state has denied me for three years even though I have no criminal or arrest history. When did we start slicing and dicing our rights? Did we decide that we have the right to be Christian but you have to pay a fee every 5 years in order to practice Judaism?