Many people were wondering what President Trump would say to the NRA faithful in Atlanta during his speech at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting (NRAAM). They were hoping to hear the words of a person who believes in individual rights and especially the right to defend yourself and own and carry firearms. Well, President Trump came through and made many in attendnance very happy with his speech.
“The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end,” President Trump said. “You have a true friend and champion in the White House.” President Trump went on to say words that gave many in attendance and those listening live on the internet (like yours truly) hope that good things for the restoration of rights for the law abiding citizens of the United States may be forth coming. “I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” President Trump said. “Never ever.”
President Trump is the first active President since President Ronald Reagan to speak to the NRA at their yearly meeting. Even the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was excited about the speech and called it “a good way to end an incredible week.”
Hopefully we will see some action in this Presidents term that will help restore rights of citizens according to the Constitution of the United States, such as National Reciprocity and universal carry rights. Who knows we might even just let the Constitution be the law, what a novel idea.
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It’s only called constitutional carry if it follows the Constitution…
This week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx) introduced a bill (SB 446) that many are calling the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.” There is only one thing wrong with it—it is not constitutional in any sense of the word. You see, if it was the “National Constitutional Carry Bill,” then maybe they could call it that. But the problem is that too many people have been deprived of their rights for so long that they fail to see the bill for what it is.
As many states know already (and others are starting to learn), a true constitutional carry is one free of licensing and restrictions. The only restrictions on owning and carrying a firearm are those that are already in place at the federal level. Many states have a “license” for concealed carry or even ownership. But what they fail to see is that the Second Amendment was purposefully written to prevent any restrictions being placed on it. There was a very special reason that the founding fathers included the wording, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
You see, if the rights of the people were to be followed by the words in the Constitution, then no one should have to have a license or pay a fee for the right to own or carry a firearm. Now, I can hear all of the screaming from the anti-gunners—there would be blood in the streets, shoot-outs on every corner. But what those folks fail to do is simply read and look at the states that already have such rights. None of that terrible stuff has happened. Contrary to what the media and anti-gunners would have you think, states that have constitutional carry have not had any of those problems. So what is the problem with getting all states on board with a real constitutional carry bill?
Well, the typical things come to mind: money, power, and control. Take Florida, for instance; with more than 1.7 million concealed carry license holders at $102 each, the state makes over $85,000,000, even if they were all just renewals. That would be a huge loss to a state no matter who you ask.
