Fellow Conservative,
This past week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California Attorney General Kamala Harris does not have grounds to intervene in Peruta v. San Diego – a suit challenging the California’s draconian concealed carry laws. Pending an appeal or Supreme Court intervention, that means that Californians are one step closer to being allowed to defend themselves in public!
In California, along with Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, state officials are allowed to force citizens to prove they have a significant reason to carry a firearm in public before issuing them a permit.
No one asked Rosa Parks why she needed to sit at the front of the bus and no one asked the Oliver Brown why his daughter needed to attend a White-only school in Topeka, Kansas.
The Second Amendment reads that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” It is called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs, and the fact that so many liberal states get away with de facto bans on carrying guns in public is an abomination!
The Ninth Circuit Court’s ruling created what is known as a “circuit split.” This is when different Appeals Courts arrive at conflicting conclusions regarding the same issue and it increases the likelihood that the Supreme Court will rule on carrying guns in public once and for all.
But we shouldn’t have to wait for five Supreme Court Justices to believe our civil rights have value…
California is just the latest state to lose in court. But millions of Americans living behind the gun control iron curtain still have their rights denied!
In 2004, Congress passed the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, a law that allows retired law enforcement to obtain a concealed carry license recognized in every single state.
This law has saved countless lives and allowed off-duty and retired police officers to continue protecting the people outside their state of residence.
But this law is discriminatory. No offense to police officers, but this program should be open to every law-abiding American who proves competency with a handgun.
No one is proposing just letting anyone carry a gun in public. Under LEOSA, retired police officers still need to prove they have a clean record and pass a marksmanship test.
But there is absolutely no reason that this program shouldn’t be extended to qualified citizens.
Think about it… Every state has different qualifications to receive a driver’s license. But even so, licensed drivers in one state are free to drive across country without having to receive a license from every state they drive through.
The United States desperately needs concealed carry reciprocity! Every qualified citizen has the right to carry a concealed weapon in public and it is shameful that this fundamental right has been trampled on for so long!
The Second Amendment shouldn’t stop at the state line. The Second Amendment applies to all American citizens across the country.
Yet, a minority of states have made it impossible for their citizens to exercise their constitutional rights and actively prohibit licensed Americans from carrying across state lines.
This must be stopped!
In the coming months, we are going to be pressuring Congress to restore the Second Amendment rights of Americans living behind the gun control iron curtain.
The VAST majority of Senators and Congressmen represent districts that allow any qualified, law-abiding citizen to carry a gun in public. The votes are there!
It is up to you to raise your voice and make this a policy issue!
Sincerely,
Joe Otto
Conservative Daily
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