I am personally for stronger background checks
But I am from the south a place where May issue laws deprived minorities of equal access. I believe if you meet the requirements the state/local city should not be able to subjectively decided who can or can't get the privilege to concealed carry (note i said privilege to CCW its not a right, yes you do have a right to keep and bar arms and I believe that right extends to open carry and or locked transport but CCW is a privilege)
In NC for example our handgun permit process was designed to allow local sheriffs to totally decide who can buy a handgun.
Again if a person is:
Non prohibited person
Passed training and legal test
Passes background test
they should be granted a CCW. They should not have to list a reason of be subject to the lack of due process subjective and arbitrary process of sheriff/police chief deciding.
You can set the places where CCW is permitted thru the legislature like almost every state has. For example in my state courthouses, inside schools, athletic fields, events that charge admission (movies, skating ring ect...however their are some exceptions).
Always remember Reagan became a gun control advocate in direct response not to crime and violence or innocent children no because the black panther party.
And also remember DiFi did not become one until the hedge fund shooting. she proudly carried a revolver. the shooting of her political friend was done by a police(fmr) man not a regular civilian. But CA law still has all kinds of exemptions for forme police and police for personal guns including letting them bypass CA strict approved handguns list.
Now for real solutions to gun violence we have to look to the root causes. The root cause for the majority of urban mothers are mostly cultural. I know its not PC Im a young black male myself but it true.
The culture that celebrates ghettoness, violence, gang life, has the most broken families, some of the highest poverty and unemployment, under perform academically.......... Young black males disportionately make up the numbers of those injured and killed in "gun violence" as well as the perpetrators.
The thing is the Man in the white house right now My President Barack Obama has a platform to dramatically shift this culture. Talking to grads at Morehouse (historically Black all male private college in Atlanta) is good but the people that needed that message weren't the distinguished graduates but rather the children in grade school at juvenile hall and jail/prison. I hope in the presidents last term he does the most un PC thing possible and appoints a task force to focus on solutions for Young black males. Heck even to be pc lets call it urban issues (crime, poverty, broken families, education)
showing young black men an alternative path the the street/drugs/gangs and helping them aviod that with positive options and programs designed to engage them. that would save so many lives.
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