H.R. 4547: National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Bill, Part I.

John Longenecker

Representative Cliff Stearns (R-Fla) has introduced House Resolution 4547, which calls for a nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry permits from other states, much like driver’s licenses are respected and honored by each other state.

This is huge.

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When citizens are carrying concealed weapons, where they are CCW, as we say, several profound things occur, which are not often enumerated by the anti-gun crowd.

Chief among these is a more profound respect for government, more of a cooperation, because the officials respect more the sovereignty of the governed than they do on both coasts.

They don’t seem to have problems with this. In right-to-carry states, the populace there has not regretted placing its trust in its own citizens. After decades of false predictions, which ordinarily should have called attention to itself, dire forecasts such as road rage, hot-head shootings, accidental shootings and other calculations never materialized in spite of issuing hundreds of thousands of concealed carry permits throughout 38 states.

Also, the lies of so-called romantic or lover shootings were exposed, what with many, more weapons now within easy reach as CCW does. You know: the figures that said (falsely) that the odds were in favor that household members were so-many-times more likely to be shot by someone they knew and lived with. Hm. Didn’t happen. Those figures sort of remained the same, since most shootings occurred not during a spat, but during commission of a crime, anyway. Another statistic that doesn’t apply to honest citizens, but the criminal.

So-called accidental shootings were a fraud, too. They never were above 100 children per year, because the inflated stats called lying under oath and lying to police officers in the report ("It was an accident...") an accidental shooting; saying you didn’t mean to shoot the victim doesn’t count as an accidental shooting, and as such, in CCW / right-to-carry states, stats didn’t even twitch in the direction of any increase. Real accidental shootings remained low. Very low, just like they really do everywhere else, by the way.

One of the greatest things to emerge in the right-to-carry debate is that the hyperbole and hysteria of the anti-gun crowd is proven after decades now to be ..let’s see..not a lie, what’s the right word . . . more of a fraud.

Right. All of the gun bans never changed any stats, from before the ban, during a ten year ban, and afterward. And who obeyed the law, anyway? The law-abiding complied, not through loopholes, by in compliance. It was yet another useless law that never touched a criminal.

Out of more than 22,000 gun laws on the books, please point to one that stops crime. Just one.

Now, here is some gun law that does work: 47,000 persons a year are killed by guns. More accurately, 47,000 people a year die from crime-on-crime shootings, suicide and some truly accidental shootings, usually during a crime. Check it out at the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report and with Professor John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime.

On the other side of the question is the would-be victim, people like you and me and your loved ones. Taxpayers, lovers, friends, you know, honest folk; these people are shown to stop a crime, namely against them, more than 2.5 million times a year, according to the same authorities.

Please visit the links above and think of one thing: though the household plans for illness, unemployment, dental care and auto insurance, just how the family will respond in time of violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.

In 38 states of the union, it’s not that tough a problem, but where it’s really needed most – Kalifornia, New York, Washington, D.C, and San Francisco, as we shall soon see – it’s frustrated the most.

Why?

Indeed.

It’s time for nationwide concealed carry.

My thanks and appreciation to Representative Stearns.

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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net