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The next block we should chip away at after Peruta:

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These are just my ramblings and wisps of thought after the 9th circuit's decision on Peruta and may issue, so please withold judgement on the validity of my idea, and simply assist on perfecting the rough idea I'm beginning to develop instead of simply dismissing it as a complete lark at the outset. When I say, "This might" or "probably", it would be beneficial to receive input on why the idea is, or is not sound.

"What a load of crap", or "You don't know what you're talking about" do not serve to develop my rudimentary ideas and form them into something more coherent.

Now that the 9th circuit has confirmed that we, the people don't need to provide a good reason to exercise our rights outside our home I suspect this will be headed for SCOTUS to rectify it with other Federal Court's decisions that we do, and settle the issue once and for all.

I predict that it will probably result in the demise of "may issue" entirely, as the opposite would throw a monkey wrench in the gears of everything and result in more questions rather than settling the issue. (Convince me that this fact doesn't play a role in SCOTUS' decisions. When making a decision to resolve a problem, you can't tell me that the court doesn't take simplicity into account. If someone asks you a question, don't you often answer them with a reply that will make them shut up instead of giving them something that will inevitably result in being asked 1000 more questions?)

So, if we don't need an arbitrary "good cause" to exercise our rights outside of our homes.......

How big does this circle of freedom extend?

After all, SCOTUS answered the question of 2A applicability in our home. This left the question of whether or not rights exist past the threshold of our front door in limbo.

A decision stating that I retain the right to bear arms outside my house makes me wonder:

How far outside my house?

After all, this bubble of freedom just grew from my doorstep to beyond......

Does it stop at California's border now? After all, they don't have reciprocity with Missouri, therefore my rights must stop at the edge of the bubble of California's border, right? But this seems rather odd...why is there this strange bubble when the folks on the inside of it have the same right as those on the outside? After all, Californian's have the right to carry outside, I have the right to carry outside.....why can't I carry in California when the exact same right exists on both sides of this strange little bubble?

We need to swing the hammer at reciprocity issues next. National reciprocity should be our goal based on the expansion of this "freedom limit" that has just spread from our doorsteps....and now stops at state borders.

After all, now that I, as an American, don't need a good reason to carry outside my home, how is it permissible to limit this to various states, and not others? Where's the border of this freedom?

Any input will be appreciated. Ideas on how we can expand both this idea, and our rights would be great.
 
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IMO the case and opinions refer to privileges, not a right. This only gives the gov more time until the scope of SCOTUS changes, and it will change. We need to fast track to rights before that happens.
 

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IMO the case and opinions refer to privileges, not a right. This only gives the gov more time until the scope of SCOTUS changes, and it will change. We need to fast track to rights before that happens.

Yea I read the decision and am dismayed at the tortured constitutional wrangling they did to leave so much open for future restrictions.

They state too that OC isn't necessarily a right and can be banned as long as there is CC. CC requires a permit so they don't get that rights don't need permission.
 

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T...So, if we don't need an arbitrary "good cause" to exercise our rights outside of our homes...
As WW and SVG have stated, getting a license in order to carry (OC or CC) has nothing to do with exercising a RIGHT, despite the 9th Circuit's tortured "logic".

Bearing arms is not a RIGHT if one needs a license to legally do it.
 

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OP national reciprocity should be done at the state level. I would like to see my state a shall accept state, much how it was done with Drivers License.

Do you think that would work? Some states have stricter requirements. So you'd have to get all the states agree on the requirements.

Maybe the way should push for states to give out of state permits more often. That way the citizen chooses what States they want a permit for.

I understand the shall accept part but that basically takes the power of the citizens in that state away. So if you have a state that citizens want some requirement then its null and void because guys will go to a different state where there are no requirements.

My point is MA citizens should have a right as a state to determine their own process and procedure. If a Texan wants to come here then let them apply (and get, maybe a shall issue license?) Go through the process MA determines.

Kind of like the Utah license. You still have to take a Utah course but you just apply in the mail and you get the out of state license. I don't know what or how many states do this, but if they all did then it'd basically be reciprocity while still leaving the power to the citizens of a state.

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Do you think that would work? Some states have stricter requirements. So you'd have to get all the states agree on the requirements.

Maybe the way should push for states to give out of state permits more often. That way the citizen chooses what States they want a permit for.

I understand the shall accept part but that basically takes the power of the citizens in that state away. So if you have a state that citizens want some requirement then its null and void because guys will go to a different state where there are no requirements.

My point is MA citizens should have a right as a state to determine their own process and procedure. If a Texan wants to come here then let them apply (and get, maybe a shall issue license?) Go through the process MA determines.

Kind of like the Utah license. You still have to take a Utah course but you just apply in the mail and you get the out of state license. I don't know what or how many states do this, but if they all did then it'd basically be reciprocity while still leaving the power to the citizens of a state.

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It's done with driver's licences, some states allow licenses to be issued at 15 my state doesn't , while in my state you will get in trouble if caught operating a car alone at 15.

The state rules and regs don't disappear because one state is more lax, those rules and regs are expected to be followed.

I personally don't like it all but would think that is a better way to go than a unconstitutional federal interference for state licenses.

With my state all they care about really is the background check, so I think it would be a perfect state for a shall accept policy, as long as people who are 18 from states that allow them to conceal realize that's a no no in Washington.
 

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Peruta recognized "keep" and "bear" as separate...and declared both to be RIGHTS.

The 9th Circuit covers several states...though it was only deciding a California statute's validity. I'd be interested to see whether the 9th's recognition of the "right to bear" can be used by a non-resident of California applying for a license to carry while in CA.
 

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OP national reciprocity should be done at the state level. I would like to see my state a shall accept state, much how it was done with Drivers License.

I am a believer in states rights, so I won't argue reciprocity should be nationally enforced.

What I will argue is what there should be no need for reciprocity to travel our nation armed without need for license and without fear of arrest or harassment. The 2nd amendment demands that every single citizen who is not justifiably unable to lawfully carry a firearm must be allowed to carry a firearm in some reasonable manner, without license, in every State, County, and City of our nation.

The only valid reason to disallow any expression of our rights, as layed out in the Bill of Rights, is justified public policy. For instance, the regulation of large protest parades through city streets is a valid public policy violation of the 1st amendment to ensure the safety of all involved and affected. Therefore any regulation at ALL of our right to keep, and to bear, arms must have similarly valid public policy justification behind it, and this goes to every state of the nation because the Bill of Rights are the law of the land, period. A state that has no RKBA law of its own still has the 2nd, and no state can have an RKBA more restrictive than the 2nd. States that don't want to live by the Bill of Rights shouldn't have become part of the USA.

Valid public policy? Select fire weapons registered. Weapons that don't look like firearms registered. Supressors registered. Violent felons disallowed from owning firearms. Mentally unstable individuals disallowed from owning firearms. Individual states allowed to disallow any of the above registered items entirely. And a few other more minor things like airplanes and courtroom restrictions.

What can't be disallowed because absolutely no public policy could sufficiently justify it is a simple unlicensed method for carrying a firearm by any State, County, or City. According to the 2nd amendment all responsible adults should be able to walk out their door with a handgun and be able to travel anywhere in the US they like without concern that they are breaking any laws.

What the OP is getting at is as close to the above as possible within the screwed framework currently available to us after many incorrect SCOTUS decisions. So national reciprocity is not about restricting states rights, it would be about bringing states in alignment with the Bill of Rights through the only method currently available us.

This is all just my opinion of course.

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The RKBA belongs to the people, not states. States do not have any rights when it comes to firearms. I, on the other hand, do.

I didn't say that the RKBA belongs to the states. I said I believe in states rights. As in the right to do what they please as long as it doesn't violate the rights of the people or the powers duly allotted to the federal government by the collective will of said people.



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NO the 2nd amendment does not, there is absolutely nothing in the 2nd about the people being responsible adults.

You are reading things into my statement that aren't there and ignoring prior statements that clearly indicate that "responsible adults" was intended to be inclusive of all people that are not justifiably banned from firearm possession due to valid public policy concerns.

But even if you didn't get that, it is obvious I didn't say only responsible adults should have that ability. I merely said responsible adults should have that ability. This statement does not preclude any other group of people from also having that ability. 3rd grade English. You sound just like one of those people that throws a fit every time someone uses the word "mankind" instead of "humankind".

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You are reading things into my statement that aren't there and ignoring prior statements that clearly indicate that "responsible adults" was intended to be inclusive of all people that are not justifiably banned from firearm possession due to valid public policy concerns.

But even if you didn't get that, it is obvious I didn't say only responsible adults should have that ability. I merely said responsible adults should have that ability. This statement does not preclude any other group of people from also having that ability. 3rd grade English. You sound just like one of those people that throws a fit every time someone uses the word "mankind" instead of "humankind".

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NO I didn't I pulled the section directly from your post.

According to the 2nd amendment all responsible adults should be able to walk out their door with a handgun
 
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I am a believer in states rights, so I won't argue reciprocity should be nationally enforced.

What I will argue is what there should be no need for reciprocity to travel our nation armed without need for license and without fear of arrest or harassment. The 2nd amendment demands that every single citizen who is not justifiably unable to lawfully carry a firearm must be allowed to carry a firearm in some reasonable manner, without license, in every State, County, and City of our nation.

The only valid reason to disallow any expression of our rights, as layed out in the Bill of Rights, is justified public policy. For instance, the regulation of large protest parades through city streets is a valid public policy violation of the 1st amendment to ensure the safety of all involved and affected. Therefore any regulation at ALL of our right to keep, and to bear, arms must have similarly valid public policy justification behind it, and this goes to every state of the nation because the Bill of Rights are the law of the land, period. A state that has no RKBA law of its own still has the 2nd, and no state can have an RKBA more restrictive than the 2nd. States that don't want to live by the Bill of Rights shouldn't have become part of the USA.

Valid public policy? Select fire weapons registered. Weapons that don't look like firearms registered. Supressors registered. Violent felons disallowed from owning firearms. Mentally unstable individuals disallowed from owning firearms. Individual states allowed to disallow any of the above registered items entirely. And a few other more minor things like airplanes and courtroom restrictions.

What can't be disallowed because absolutely no public policy could sufficiently justify it is a simple unlicensed method for carrying a firearm by any State, County, or City. According to the 2nd amendment all responsible adults should be able to walk out their door with a handgun and be able to travel anywhere in the US they like without concern that they are breaking any laws.

What the OP is getting at is as close to the above as possible within the screwed framework currently available to us after many incorrect SCOTUS decisions. So national reciprocity is not about restricting states rights, it would be about bringing states in alignment with the Bill of Rights through the only method currently available us.

This is all just my opinion of course.

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The BOR is the restriction on the federal government. These rights are secured as natural rights. Reciprocity is a licensing scheme that would turn a natural right into a permitted one granted by government.

The argument by the courts should be that it is wrong for any government to infringe upon our natural rights. This bugs them because it leaves them out of the loop so they will develop complex case law and political schemes to keep them in the loop.
 

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Do you think that would work? Some states have stricter requirements......

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The above from a fella who has a LEOSA "permit", or can get one. Jealous? No, disgusted that "former cops" are more valuable, in the eyes of the "state", after they leave the cop business than I am.

Anyway,

I categorically reject the premise that "adults" have a right to keep and bear arms. It is written "the right of the people", not "the right of adults." Another thing, there can be no reasonable "good public policy" consideration(s), that is anti-liberty speak.....gibberish that the liberals spew forth every time they get a wild hair to try and portray themselves as "reasonable" people.

A nation of laws, if one exists anywhere, anymore, is not proactive in the punishment of its citizens before a violation occurs. As is evident by the vast number of proactive laws that exist. "Good public policy" must be limited, extremely so, to public roads (tax payer financed spaces/structures), equitable water usage, a few narrowly worded environmental "considerations", and tax policy, that is it.

Liberty demands that we, and the state, do nothing until someone harms another by their acts. I refer you to TJ's famous quote about too much liberty vs. too little of it.

The Constitution must be read in conjunction with the Federalist Papers and their counterparts' works, the Anti-Federalist Papers. Toss in a few private letters and transcripts form Congressional debates, back in the day, and learn what liberty is, not regurgitate what you think liberty should be.

A bunch of anti-liberty crap....."good public policy".....

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What I will argue is what there should be no need for reciprocity to travel our nation armed without need for license and without fear of arrest or harassment.
Correct. This is the way it should be. No licenses.

The 2nd amendment demands that every single citizen who is not justifiably unable to lawfully carry a firearm must be allowed to carry a firearm in some reasonable manner, without license, in every State, County, and City of our nation.

Wrong. You are interjecting your own bias in defining the 2A. The right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Itchy Ian and Responsible Ron have the same rights. If we stuck to the intent of the 2A, I guarantee you our gene pool would be improved.

The only valid reason to disallow any expression of our rights, as layed out in the Bill of Rights, is justified public policy. For instance, the regulation of large protest parades through city streets is a valid public policy violation of the 1st amendment to ensure the safety of all involved and affected. Therefore any regulation at ALL of our right to keep, and to bear, arms must have similarly valid public policy justification behind it, and this goes to every state of the nation because the Bill of Rights are the law of the land, period. A state that has no RKBA law of its own still has the 2nd, and no state can have an RKBA more restrictive than the 2nd. States that don't want to live by the Bill of Rights shouldn't have become part of the USA.

That kind of thinking got us to where we are now. Crappy laws and lots and lots of infringement. The Court has declared rights can be removed from criminals. That action is taken after the crime, not before it. The current laws today are pre-crime and unconstitutional. And "justified public policy" is determined by whom? It's already been proven that public policy isn't created by the public (see: Colorado, Connecticut).

Valid public policy? Select fire weapons registered. Weapons that don't look like firearms registered. Supressors registered. Violent felons disallowed from owning firearms. Mentally unstable individuals disallowed from owning firearms. Individual states allowed to disallow any of the above registered items entirely. And a few other more minor things like airplanes and courtroom restrictions.
Why? Why do any of these things need to be registered? What's the point of registration? The only thing I agree with here is the restriction on violent (or repeat) offenders and mentally unstable.

What can't be disallowed because absolutely no public policy could sufficiently justify it is a simple unlicensed method for carrying a firearm by any State, County, or City. According to the 2nd amendment all responsible adults should be able to walk out their door with a handgun and be able to travel anywhere in the US they like without concern that they are breaking any laws.

Again, incorrect and unneeded defining commentary. You know, I wish responsible adults could exercise their 1A right to free speech, but alas, Facebook, texts, online forums, and Twitter show that this is impossible. Should we require people to pass a D.S.G. test before engaging in the 1A? BTW, D.S.G. is decency, spelling, and grammar.
 
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<snip> Again, incorrect and unneeded defining commentary. You know, I wish responsible adults could exercise their 1A right to free speech, but alas, Facebook, texts, online forums, and Twitter show that this is impossible. Should we require people to pass a D.S.G. test before engaging in the 1A? BTW, D.S.G. is decency, spelling, and grammar.
I would advocate that lies be heavily restricted in normal conversation.....except when your wife (if your are married) asks you why you are late coming home. I usually fall back on "the Taliban got me" defense. ;)
 
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