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These sorts of bans are silly. Anyone who wishes to carry, will do so. Unless you're going to stop and frisk people, and we know how that goes, you can't tell they're carrying.
Yes, some dumbasses "print", whatever. We gonna expect cops to deal with that fairly?! "He appeared to be carrying ~marijuana~ a gun! So we shot his ass."
People like me, a legal gun owner probably won't break the law on this one. So who does that leave carrying in the space we wished to restrict? Scofflaws, at best.
I have no idea what problem this tries to address.
Well. Kids keep being murdered in schools. We've tried "thoughts and prayers" and "more guns", and that really hasn't solved the problem.
I think folks are just trying to limit access to guns except in specific conditions. You know - trying something different.
Omaha had the “something different” up until just a couple of years ago. We already PROVED it didn’t work. It’s a failed policy.
Legal CCW in public spaces is the something different / something new.
Legal concealed carry has been the norm for the majority of the existence of this country. What the hell are you talking about?
Okay so wouldn't that imply that there's something else going on causing the shootings since the school shootings haven't been like this since for the majority of the existence of the country? How many school shootings happen at the hands of ccw permit holders? Most of the time it seems they're not even using concealable weapons.
Yeah, I don't think CCW and school shootings are really overlapping issues, except maybe in the most general sense of the perceived need for a gun. CCW most closely relates to gun crime and violence on the whole.
No, it hasn't and that's a matter of historical fact. In 1990 only FIVE states had legal Concealed Carry and that didn't reach 25 until nearly 2000. (See Figure 2) Regardless of that we aren't talking about the whole country we are talking about Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha passed a city wide ban on Concealed Carry somewhere back in the 1960s so it had been 100% illegal there until 2006 when Senator Ernie Chambers from Omaha was term limited in the Nebraska State Legislature. That was the year that the State of Nebraska was finally able to pass Concealed Carry legislation.
Actual history, you?
From 1776 to 1870 there were no statewide concealed carry bans anywhere in the US (Kentucky was the first). Even then open carry was not restricted. It wasn't necessary since concealing a gun was considered dishonorable and something criminals would do.
94 years, not 24 years. And the majority of states had it much longer.