Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted and passed H.R. 38, by a vote of 231-198. All the usual suspects, i.e. NRA, NSSF, etc., are claiming a great victory. Stupid is as stupid does.
H.R. 38 is commonly known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017. What isn’t known by most people is that in order to get the bill to the House floor, it had to contain the “Fix NICS” portion designed, we are told, to improve the criminal background check system.
So what does all of this do?
First, let’s look at the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (CCRA). Most fail to understand that it should be an unquestioned (inalienable: unquestioned, unable to be taken away) right of any man to defend himself, and yet today’s American society does everything that it can to hand that inalienable right over to the power and control of Government. It makes little sense to me.
With this fact in mind, why is it that Americans are required by Government to be taxed on a piece of paper that grants them a privilege to own or conceal-carry a gun? We must also ask, that if it is an unquestioned right to self-defense, why can’t we cross state lines legally carrying a concealed or any weapon at all?
In addition, ignorants who think they are fighting for Second Amendment rights, are some of the first to stand up and make a lot of noise about state sovereignty. When it fits their narrative, in their minds the states have the right, as found in the Tenth Amendment (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.) to control their own fates in ways “NOT DELEGATED TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE CONSTITUTION.” And so, by pushing Congress to pass a reciprocity act, they have now delegated the United States to control concealed carry, and the states have now lost some of their sovereignty in deciding how it wants to regulate guns.
With Congress now in control, a group of fascist crooks who would sell their soul to Satan to continue their quest for being pagan sodomites, can alter and take away their GRANTED, which you gave them, privilege with the drop of a hat. LOVING SERVITUDE!
True Second Amendment supporters, not those who think the NRA is their gun rights gOD, would be pushing to make all states “Constitutional Carry,” (poor choice of a label) i.e. man does not need a writ of privilege from any government to protect himself at all times. Which brings us to an interesting part of this new bill.
Some states have always had or recently enacted, laws that strip away the requirement for a permit to carry a gun, concealed or otherwise. With the passage of H.R. 38, where each state is to recognize the piece of paper issued for concealed carry, what does that mean for the constitutional carry person coming and going across state lines?
Read what “qualifies” someone to participate in the Government’s new privilege: “A qualified individual must: (1) be eligible to possess, transport, or receive a firearm under federal law; (2) carry a valid photo identification document; and (3) carry a valid concealed carry permit issued by, or be eligible to carry a concealed firearm in, his or her state of residence.”
Constitutional carry assumes a person has a “privilege” to own, receive or transport a gun. There are already laws to deal with that. To qualify, that same person must have a valid photo identification document, a Government instrument, and “carry a valid concealed carry permit” issued in their state. Oops! According to the NRA and others, those who believe in the alienable right to keep and bear arms, just got punished. Whose side is who on anyway?
Seems that Constitutional Carry just got knocked down a peg or six and anyone wishing to be protected when they cross state lines must comply with fascist Big Brother.
So, you ignoramuses keep on turning everything you have over to the control of the Federal Government and soon you’ll have nothing. Follow the corrupt NRA, who is NOT the friend of Second Amendment people. They are the friends of making money and, like Government, will sell you down the river for a buck.
Secondly, it was basically the “Left” who insisted that “Fix NICS” be part of the bill or no deal. Many of the same people who think reciprocity was a good thing, also believe that a background check stops crime. In proclaiming victory, the NRA stated: “All Americans, including law-abiding gun owners, agree that violent criminals should not have legal access to firearms.” These are the same ones who stand and shout that gun laws only harm the lawful citizen, prohibiting them to self-defense, and yet they push something as stupid as a law they now claim will stop criminals.
Any “improvements” to the criminal background check system results in nothing more than more government control, which, it appears, Americans are falling in love with, and a further destruction of a person’s inalienable right to protect and defend themselves at all times.
We’re killing ourselves and loving it!
