Constitutional Carry

I saw Joe Manchin on Special Report last night.  Manchin plays a good fiscal conservative game but don’t forget he was also a co-sponsor to pointless gun grabbing legislation after Sandy Hook.  With regard to military retirees taking the ONLY hit in the most recent budget deal, Manchin said straight faced, “We’re all against it.”  Uh, no you are most certainly not “all” against it.  It passed in both houses.  Not a single Democrat voted against the deal in the senate.  Which leads to another point about Manchin, how many times has he broken with “his” party?  Not very many.  But in today’s world, Manchin seems to be an old time Democrat.  That would be one who actually loved the country as founded.

Speaking of gun control, the three people familiar with this page know that Lex believes the second amendment gives him all the “right to carry” that he needs.  “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” is pretty clear.  Under that clear language in the constitution, I have the right to carry a weapon on my person without filing papers with the state or paying an onerous fee, both of which are pretty clear “infringements.”

That is why I have resisted applying for a concealed carry permit here in Indiana, which is a must issue state.  That means that you register with your local police department and pay your fee and you are a concealed carrier in the state.  I don’t want to apply for and pay for a right granted me under the constitution.

I think there is something called abandonment in the law.  I had a janitor that worked in a government building I was responsible for.  I should say, I had a janitor who didn’t work in a building I was responsible for.  As a result, the Marines had to pick up the slack.

When I started paperwork to terminate the janitor I was dumbfounded to find out that because we did the work the janitor was supposed to have done, the janitor was in compliance with his contract.  YGBSM.  No it’s true.  By doing the work ourselves, we had apparently abandoned the expectation that the janitor was going to do it.

I do not want to abandon my right to keep and bear arms by complying with a clearly unconstitutional law.  What if the state decides there are too many permits.  To reduce the number, the state raises the concealed carry fee to $10,000?  Once you've agreed that the state has a right to charge a fee, you've pretty much abandoned your expectation to be able to defend yourself with a firearm without first filing papers with and paying that fee to the state.  Besides, I concur with the unmistakable logic that if it’s truly concealed nobody will know you are carrying a gun.

The rub comes in if you have to use that gun.  At that point, I think I throw myself on the mercy of the court and claim it was him or me.  Look how well that worked out for white Hispanic George Zimmerman.

So GOOD NEWS.  More and more states are coming around to Lex’s way of thinking.  The Lex position on the right to bear arms is appropriately enough termed “Constitutional Carry.”  That is, the constitution IS my concealed carry permit.  Constitutional Carry is the law in VT, WY, AK, AR and AZ.  It’s in the news today because legislators in the state of OH have introduced a bill to make Constitutional Carry the law in that state.

I think a nationwide Constitutional Carry would pretty much put an end to the brutal knockout crime (it’s no game), car jackings, motorcycle gangs terrorizing families in SUVs etc.  Someone once quipped, an armed society is a polite society.  I believe that to be true.  Author and statistician John Lott wrote an entire book on the subject, More Guns, Less Crime. 

Can purple OH pull this off?  I don’t know.  Good luck Buckeyes.  Oh, and why isn’t TX on the list of Constitutional Carry states?

Today’s feel good video
This is pretty neat.  I bought this on i-tunes.  The video is much cooler.  Somebody told me this was acapella.  I said that’s BS.  They ain’t got no instruments.