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re: LA Constitutional Carry Bill is Back (HB68)

Posted on 4/20/17 at 7:22 pm to
Posted by Propagandalf
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2010
2528 posts
Posted on 4/20/17 at 7:22 pm to
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But both involve "keeping and bearing arms."


One is killing a managed species of animals. Tools used to do this DO include firearms but also include spears, arrows, knives, traps, etc. It is reguulated by a state authority and requires a licsense. It is not a constitutioanally proteected activity.

The other is a constituitionally protactud righte to possessesesses something.

I can't not wrap my head arund how someone cannot re-cognize how the requorements to obtane a license to kill animals draws any parallel with someone needing to fulfill requirements to xercise a right. One is a RIGHT...the other is a prevldge.

Where do I sign up for the rest of the Bill of Rights classes?

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Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5065 posts
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:55 pm to
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One is a RIGHT...the other is a prevldge.

Where do I sign up for the rest of the Bill of Rights classes?
Well, you could start with the Louisiana Supreme Court. They've explained that keeping and bearing arms is a right, but it's not an absolute right. Quite a few rulings have been handed down on this in response to appeals based on "strict scrutiny."

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Quote from link: "Finally, the Louisiana Supreme Court also held in 2014 that the legislature retained the ability to pass laws regarding the carrying of concealed weapons, despite the 2012 amendment to the state’s constitution. In ruling that the challenged statutes regulating concealed carry and prohibiting juvenile handgun possession except under certain circumstances passed review under strict scrutiny, the court held that “[t]he right to keep and bear arms, like other rights guaranteed by [the] state constitution, is not absolute.

The court concluded that “the drafters and ratifiers [of the 2012 constitutional amendment] did not intend to invalidate the existing law restricting the carrying of concealed weapons, or to restrict the legislature’s authority to pass laws on that subject".



Bottom line: Keeping and bearing arms is a right. Concealing guns in public is a privilege.
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