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I'm so grateful to live in a civilised country

Like the venerable Kirk said, some deaths are worth our right to bear arms. Arm up and get ready, y'all, fascism doesn't go quietly.

hey talk about history and tradition in these rulings

Then restrict permits to muzzle loaders only.

I'm a gun person and even I'm taken aback when I see someone open carrying. I don't carry, open or concealed, for a myriad of reasons. Mainly I'm gigantic and trained to fight, but also I'm not a fucking paranoid nut case. The only exception is when I go hiking or camping. Never needed it and hope I never do.

But then you hear idiots talk about "I wish a mfer would give me a reason!"and I realize I'm in the pretty small minority.

Well the California one is from the 60's and was a direct reprisal to the Black Panthers. I think most historical carry bans applied to concealed carry. The only historical carry ban I can think of was some small "Wild West" towns would make you check your guns when you rolled in, but I'm not sure if that applied to folks that lived there.

Pretty much. After they gutted the first half of the amendment, it was only the right to “keep & bear,” and open carry is simply “bearing arms.”

No. Not specifically SCOTUS. This has been a team effort. Conservatives have been working on this for decades. SCOTUS is just the final step. The blood will be on the hands of all republicans whose votes allowed this to happen.

We typically don’t. Someone exercising open carry in public (especially in a non-rural town/city) are generally viewed as a cosplaytriot who has totally confused being a prepared badass with being a paranoid dickhead.

They may argue this, but that’s the general attitude.

The new rule is everything has to be consistent with the nations “history and tradition” so they’re probably just gonna roll all those back 😬

I'm down for Panthers, just without segregation.

Even in the Wild West, you were supposed to check your guns when you entered town.

What, you expect good faith from those scheming assholes?

They're charlatans who pretend to channel the dead Founders. Except (A) The founders didn't agree on much; (B) Many of them spoke at length about the need to keep laws updated to meet modern needs; and (C) The conclusions reached by this bullshit process of divination are always exactly in line with the demands of modern conservative politics, and have little to do with the original intent, to the extent that such a thing can ever have been said to exist.

What a coincidence.

I'm a gun owner with a license to carry, though I rarely do.

Open carry bothers me, because it's carrying an implied threat. If I'm carrying (usually because I'm going to the range and think the gun is more likely to be stolen from my car than my hip), I don't want to be carrying a threat. If I accidentally cut someone off in line, I want them to let me know instead of being afraid I'll shoot them. If I'm being unreasonable, I want someone to speak up.

No, because it normalizes the very neurological disorders that people who want to open carry have. If you can’t go out in public without displaying a weapon, talk to a shrink.

I own a gun and I’m afraid to open carry because of the liability. A gun weighs so much more when you’re around people you don’t know. You don’t ever not feel it on your hip. And I think that’s a good thing. You should feel that weight. Because it’s a responsibility.

reagan also railed against sagaftra and secured his own agreement, at the expense of the other actors.