concealed carry permits valid nationwide,<\/a> same as driver\u2019s licenses.\u00a0\u00a0 They\u2019re calling it \u201creciprocity\u201d but it\u2019s really not.\u00a0 Reciprocity is what happens when states mutually agree to honor each other\u2019s licenses.\u00a0 This is being imposed nationally.<\/p>\nNormally, I\u2019m first in line for gun rights. I should be thrilled about this, right?\u00a0 I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I\u2019m a principled conservative.\u00a0 I believe in subsidiarity first.<\/p>\n
The right to possess a gun is a fundamental constitutional right.\u00a0 The right to carry it in public is not so clear.\u00a0 At this point, if the several states want to honor each other\u2019s permits to carry, they can (and many already do, if you go through the hoops when you get your Minnesota permit to carry).<\/p>\n
But just as each state gets to decide the minimum qualifications to pass a driver\u2019s license exam, each state sets its own concealed carry laws.\u00a0 What works in Montana may not work in Chicago.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a problem for Congress to solve.\u00a0 That\u2019s the essence of federalism.<\/p>\n
And, of course, since it\u2019s people traveling between states, then Congress will want to regulate it under the Interstate Commerce clause, set national standards, maintain a data-base of permitted carriers, register the serial numbers of their firearms, all administered by the non-partisan and scrupulously honest staff at the AFT or IRS or \u00a0. . . .<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Congress is working on a bill to make concealed carry permits valid nationwide, same as driver\u2019s licenses.\u00a0\u00a0 They\u2019re calling it \u201creciprocity\u201d but it\u2019s really not.\u00a0 Reciprocity is what happens when states mutually agree to honor each other\u2019s licenses.\u00a0 This is being imposed nationally. Normally, I\u2019m first in line for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65368,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions\/65368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}