Sunday, April 15, 2007

New WarOnGuns Poll: CCW Permits

The new poll is in the left margin.

Here are the results of last week's poll (click on image to enlarge):

3 comments:

me said...

damn, you sure know how to make it hard. It's both. I've openly asked before if anyone had questioned the rulings of late in our favor. Just leading us on to attack when we're not expecting it kind of thing.

As for the CCW, they're a step in the right direction probably, and until someone steps up and challenges it after being popped it's better then before, right?

David Codrea said...

Is it better than before?

Before what?

We've now ceded to the state the authority to license a right, which means in addition to approving it, they can deny or revoke it. In other words, this has reduced an unalienable right endowed by our Creator to a mere privilege bestowed or withheld by "The Only Ones," and we see every day on this site how flawed and capricious they can be.

Yet we have given our agenda-driven rulers the power to decide for us when and where and how they will permit us the means of defense, and by "we" I mean all of you who accede. I refuse to play, and don't cede to anyone the proxy to represent me in this.

Liberty is not licensed.

me said...

I agree, but it is a step back in the right direction. incrementalism in our favor for a change.

and don't get me wrong, I agree 100% with what you said, but without the money to fight them in the system they made while everyone was out at the ball game or watching American false idol, well, chances are the first guy to challenge it will Just be another Wayne Fincher.

I'll do it if I feel the need and gamble. With the new wording in the Ohio law, specifically this section Sec. 9.68. (A) The individual right to keep and bear arms, being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally protected right in every part of Ohio, the general assembly finds the need to provide uniform laws throughout the state regulating the ownership, possession, purchase, other acquisition, transport, storage, carrying, sale, or other transfer of firearms, their components, and their ammunition. Except as specifically provided by the United States Constitution, Ohio Constitution, state law, or federal law, a person, without further license, permission, restriction, delay, or process, may own, possess, purchase, sell, transfer, transport, store, or keep any firearm, part of a firearm, its components, and its ammunition. it looks like there could be a nice challenge mounted as state laws can't trump the constitution, and they've admitted that it is a right in this section.

The question now becomes, how many in the gun community would help someone out who exercises that right, either through monetary support or voicing their opinions, or in other ways?

The sad fact is there are too many people who just want to be left alone and not ruined by the tyrants we have let run wild for decades now. Until there is outright shooting in the streets people won't get involved if they're left alone.