Governor "Jolly Ned" Lamont feeling emboldened by his re-election has laid out his anti-Second Amendment agenda for his second term. Nothing more than yet another round of unconstitutional/intolerable acts that will all be challenged in court, joining the multitude of pending lawsuits already filed. This post speaks to just one proposal, making open carry in the state of Kommiecticut illegal. While it sounds like just another solution in search of a problem.... it is actually much more. I say it is evil.
Gov. "Jolly Ned" (he HATES that name) Lamont's gun control proposal receiving push back. GASP!! |
Very few people, myself included, actually open carry in the state. It is currently legal because by actually following constitutional principles, something is legal until it is outlawed. Kommiecticut has never had laws against open carry. That said, waltzing into a crowded shopping mall openly strapped will result in frightened hoplophobes calling the Po-Po. The Po-Po will arrive, guns drawn and arrest that individual, confiscate their firearm and pistol permit, and charge them with breach of peace and other bogus minor charges. That person will then spend big bucks to get a lawyer, go to court, have all charges summarily dismissed, and get their permit and firearm back. All they are in the end is hundreds of dollars poorer and publicly humiliated. I open carry in my home, on my property, walking my dog on my back country road, or hiking in the woods. Otherwise I am concealed and no one is the wiser.
So here is the dirty little secret. Because of what I just explained, the intention is to create a trap, that will do more than just steal your money and humiliate you, YOU WILL NOW BE AN ACTUAL CRIMINAL! Have the audacity to open carry and real criminal charges and penalties will be incurred. So no one in their right mind will attempt such a thing. What the REAL intention is, will be to nail to the wall any gun owners with a bulge in their jacket, or if they were to bend down to pick something up and maybe that nearby hoplophobe "thinks they see a firearm" or the breeze blows your shirt open exposing your concealed firearm and you can bet LE is coming for you. They cannot stand the fact that so many permit holders like myself carry everywhere every day.
Does any of this affect the criminal element. Absolutely not. If a criminal does get caught with a firearm illegally, those charges normally just get plead down or away. No... the intent is ALWAYS to target the peaceable gun owners of this state. Because you see, we have all been damned and condemned for every crime committed with a gun and every mass shooting, simply because we have the nerve to exercise our God given right to self defense instead of depending on the state for such things.