tedtan
Well-Known Member
While I don’t doubt you, I suspect that the videos you’ve seen are a bit skewed, as a video of someone with a concealed handgun leaving that gun concealed and walking away from the situation rather than engaging doesn’t exactly make for an exciting video.I've sure seen a lot of videos that prove there's way more people who aren't like that with guns than those that are.
Poorly worded and incomplete laws not being applied and enforced properly. This is one reason these laws need to be national rather than state or local. They won’t be perfect, but a consistent law applied universally will leave far fewer loopholes.If so, then why did the Highland Park shooter have two priors, one which involved threatening someone, yet he was still able to purchase and continue to possess 4 firearms?
The two are not mutually exclusive, though.You're suggesting our lives should depend not on preventing sociopaths from getting guns in the first place but on a system of teenagers reporting what they see on social media? Remember they're too busy collecting bounties on those suffering a miscarriage
I’m sure there are plenty of crimes committed by those legally carrying.Are you arguing that people who legally carry never use their weapon to commit crime?
For example, in Texas, we have a “permitless carry” law that went into effect last September that says that anyone who is legally allowed to own a firearm can carry one in public. It is not quite a “constitutional carry” law, but very similar.
There is also a federal law that says that it is illegal to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of an elementary, middle, or high school. There is an exception to this law for those who hold a license to carry a firearm issued by the state in which the school exists, so a person who is in law enforcement or a holds a license to carry is not violating this 1,000 foot law. However, I’m sure that plenty of people who carry under the “permitless carry” law drop their children off at school in the morning and pick them up in the evening while carrying. The “permitless carry” law does not supersede the federal 1,000 for law, so this is a case of a person legally carrying a gun (while not within 1,000 feet of the school property) committing a crime while on, and within 1,000 feet of, school property.
Is that the kind of crime you’re talking about, or are you meaning more along the lines of a person carrying legally shooting people illegally? I’m sure the latter occurs, too, but its more a case of “constitutional carry” or “permitless carry” laws allowing almost anyone to carry rather than legally carrying with a license/permit.