National Carry Reciprocity has Political Benefits for Republicans

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 38, recently amended to be the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017“. The vote is expected to occur today, 6 December, 2017.

Voting for and passing the bill in the House, and then in the Senate, is a smart political move on the part of Republicans. Democrats oppose the bill for partisan ideological purposes. Opposing an armed population is in Democrats (Progressives) DNA. That opposition never made any political sense.

Every state in the United States have laws that allows for the issuance of permits for the carry of concealed weapons. It is in the interest of people in those states who have concealed weapons permits for those permits to be valid in the rest of the United States.

People who can legally carry concealed weapons have been found to be exceptionally law-abiding. Evidence exists that the carry of concealed weapons decreases the violent crime rate a small amount. At the worst, the evidence shows the crime rate is not increased.

The leadership of the Democrats comes from states that have resisted the restoration of Second Amendment rights …Read the Rest

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