Delaware Should Restrict, or Better Yet Ban, Open Carry
Gun-humpers are prematurely ejaculating over their chance to carry guns to statehouses on Jan. 20, and they can do that for a very simple reason: Only three states ban all forms of openly carrying firearms. More than half the states, including Delaware, allow open carry with no restrictions at all.
Other states place limits on this privilege. Fourteen of them, including GOP strongholds Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Missouri, require gun owners to obtain a permit for some weapons.
If those Republican-dominated states can pass laws requiring permits for open carry, there’s no excuse for a solidly Democratic state like Delaware to fail to act. Heck, even House speaker Pete Schwarzkopf should be for it, as police organizations are generally in favor of gun control (police don’t like being outgunned).
Openly displaying weapons is an intimidation tactic, and it shouldn’t be allowed, period. If gun owners don’t like it, perhaps they can protest it — without their weapons on display.
Yeah. This is fucking ridiculous. The NRA caucus among the Dems was more or less wiped out in the last election (I think only Ennis, Nicole Poore and Bennet are the remaining NRA fellaters(?)).
Get it done, Dems.
I think the lyin’ liars have already put the lie to the ‘Law Abidin’ Citizens’ myth.
Could not agree more, “Open Carry” is an invitation to gun violence and attempts at intimidation. The politicians were well beyond their usual stupidity on this one. Ban open carry, it has nothing to do with the second amendment.
The states that limit open carry do so by two methods — requiring a special license, or banning/allowing specific kinds of arms. Others carve out exceptions, for example for hunters so they can move about without a special carrier for the gun.
An outright ban is unlikely; limitations could be doable.
Whenever gun owners say that the Second Amendment was written as a guarantee against tyranny they are talking nonsense. The Constitution does not include a suicide clause.
What they are doing is endorsing sedition under undefined potential circumstances, and we can see where acquiescing on that has gotten us.