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.