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Couple of states hitting the news, Virginia and Colorado.<\/p>\n
Little background – in the most recent major gun case before the Supremes Virginia governor Youngkin actually gets bonus points for the day.<\/p>\n \u201cI swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that absolutely includes protecting the right of law-abiding Virginians to keep and bear arms,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0said Governor Glenn Youngkin.<\/span> \u201cI am pleased to sign four public safety bills which are commonsense reforms with significant bipartisan support from the General Assembly, and offer recommendations to several bills which, if adopted, will make it harder for criminals to use guns in the commission of a violent act.\u201d VA Governor’s site<\/a> As Youngkin said, the bills he vetoed either duplicated Federal law or would have done nothing to actually penalize lawbreakers and would infringe on citizens rights unnecessarily. Good day for you, Youngkin.<\/p>\n And then we get to the Former Free State of Colorado, the best example of Californication I know of.<\/p>\n Once they could no longer require a “special need” before allowing residents to carry guns in public for self-defense, politicians in those states worried that residents would start exercising that right. Deeming that outcome intolerable, legislators banned guns from long lists of “sensitive” locations, making it highly impractical for people to legally carry guns outside their homes even after obtaining the requisite license.<\/p>\n Senate Bill 24-131, introduced last month, would ban guns from “sensitive places” such as parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, zoos, museums, libraries, “public gathering[s],” medical facilities, banks, stadiums, amusement parks, bars, pot shops, college campuses, and houses of worship (without “express permission”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But there’s a twist:<\/p>\n Notably, the bill applies to “adjacent parking areas” as well as the “sensitive” locations themselves.<\/strong> It makes an exception for “firearms stored in locked containers in vehicles.” But on its face, that seems to mean a carry permit holder who visits, say, a bar, a museum, or a government office would already be violating the law when he pulls into the parking lot unless he had previously locked up his gun, which he would have to do in a location that is not deemed “sensitive.”<\/p>\n Kopel describes the bill as “ridiculously overbroad.” For example, he says, “it bans licensed carry from the entire parking lot of a shopping mall” if the mall contains a single “tavern” or “one small branch bank.” He also notes that “a woman who goes jogging or walking in parks in early mornings would be prevented from defending herself.”Reason.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bad enough that these lists of “sensitive spots” are exploding, and that typically the laws can be enforced while appeals wend their glacial way through the courts.\u00a0 Having a right to self-defense isn’t much of a right when the places they define are half the damn landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Diana Ross not included)<\/del> the Court ruled that gun cases should be decided using historical precedent rather than Democrat feewings or what someone thought the law ought to be in light of schools shootings, astrology, and what-all. So many precedent-less cases have been reversed… but the Court also said states can employ historic precedent to enact restrictions, and the subject-dictatin<\/del>g\u00a0 Democrats have been twisting themselves into knots trying to make carry and self defense far more onerous than before. Let’s take a look at Virginia:<\/p>\n
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