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Old October 22, 2013, 09:25 PM   #54
Frank Ettin
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Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
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Originally Posted by K_Mac
...The bigger question, I think, is whether Government has any right to regulate how we bear arms...
That's a big question that will take time to be more fully answered in the courts. I strongly suspect, however, that based on well settled principles of constitutional jurisprudence, some regulation will be sustained by the courts.

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Originally Posted by dakota.potts
...do you believe it should be illegal...
The reality is the in places where open carry is legal, it will most likely remain so. That is, of course, unless it becomes sufficiently obnoxious to enough people to cause them to elect politicians who will enact laws banning the practice.

And in places where it is illegal, it will most likely remain so. That is unless the thought of the practice were to become sufficiently acceptable to enough people to cause them to elect politicians who would enact laws making it legal; or until a court so acts.

And perhaps we should take some time to reflect on the fact that legal practices found obnoxious by enough people have a way of becoming illegal. And so we have noise abatement laws and laws in some places prohibiting you from parking your RV on your property in a manner visible to a public road.

Public relations and understanding effective ways to influences the attitudes or people are important.
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