by The anti-rights lobby has now coined a new word. It is “criminal carry”. I learned it when I saw this tweet by the Demanding Mommy herself, Shannon Watts.
Because passing Criminal Carry last session wasn't dangerous enough, gun lobby-backed lawmakers in Tennessee tried to lower the age to carry loaded handguns in public from 21 to 18, while also classifying permit holders as "law enforcement." đđđ
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 29, 2022
Of course, she has characterized permitless or constitutional carry by that epithet. As to the Demanding Moms actually stopping that bill in Tennessee, let’s just say that Mrs. Watts is never shy about taking credit when no credit is due her.
Given the right to keep and bear arms is an enumerated right, I’d like to take Mrs. Watts’ classification of one enumerated right to its illogical extreme by applying it to other enumerated rioghts.
So is it free speech or criminal speech that is protected by the First Amendment?
Is it the free exercise of religion or the criminal exercise of religion?
Is it due process of law or criminal process of law?
Is it a free press or a criminal press?
Is it the right to peaceably assemble or is it a right to criminally assemble?
The list could go on but you get what I’m saying. Someone may not like my right to exercise a constitutional right but to denigrate it diminishes all rights. Too bad Mrs. Watts is not smart enough to realize that.
FTR, military and veterans in the 18-20 age group already are authorized to carry in Tennessee.
What was stopped, was the great unwashed hillbilly mass.
And it wasn’t really the mommies, it was the Rhinos in the Tennessee legislature.
Criminal Carry is *exactly* what they have in Baltimore and NYC.
Only criminals carry, thats the problem.
Whats worse, ask anyone, a very large number of the carry cases in Baltimore are nolle prosse. You know that if a regular law abiding person gets in trouble by carrying, it will be all over the news. Criminals, not so much.
Liston is right, the RINO “guns are icky crowd” is still a problem. but we’ve been taking our gun rights back in Tennessee a slice at a time for years. It’s a battle we’ll win.
“Someone may not like my right to exercise a constitutional right but to denigrate it diminishes all rights. Too bad Mrs. Watts is not smart enough to realize that.”
The other option: she IS smart enough to understand that, and still denigrate anyway.
I know this is a 2A centric blog, so I wont deviate too far into Other Politics; suffice it to note that denigration and removal of all Constitutional rights have long been and still are goals of the left, not just 2A. When one falls, the others are that much more unstable.
(And 2A rights are the ultimate Doomsday Weapon against such other infringements as well)
I think she damn well knows what she is doing and saying, and it is intentional.
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