‘Trucker Lives Matter’ Takes The Right to Self Defense on The Road

By Jenn Jacques

For transportation professionals, the right to keep and bear arms ends behind the wheel. But a recently formed organization is looking to bring their rights into overdrive.

The ‘Trucker Lives Matter‘ group was launched by the South Florida-based non-profit transportation trade group The Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC), which represents members of the transportation industry nationwide, including truck drivers. The group, who declares it’s time to “Make the Roads Safe Again”, is driving home the point that citizens’ right to bear arms should not be shut down because of their profession.

Approximately 50 male and female truckers are murdered per year, and SBTC president James Lamb said, “I believe the fact that over 15,000 truckers immediately joined TLM within just a few days of our launching this movement shows that truckers believe their lives do indeed matter and it’s high time we ‘make the roads safe again’.”

Lamb is also taking legislative action, similar to NRA’s “national reciprocity” efforts, and challenging the various existing state laws that currently prevent truckers from carrying firearms nationwide to protect themselves.

Lamb’s bill asserts Federal authority through the Constitution’s “Commerce Clause,” which allows Congress to preempt the states’ regulation of guns entering, exiting, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms