This year, the state's Republican governor and a conservative legislature have proposed more than a dozen bills to expand rights to carry and use guns and knives. According to the Arizona Republic, proposed laws would allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, end requirements that guns manufactured and kept in Arizona be registered, and allow university professors to carry guns on school grounds.
Although the Arizona Republic notes that the number of bills on the subject is not unusual, weapons-rights supporters believe this year -- with a conservative governor, a Legislature sympathetic to their cause and more freedom to address issues other than the budget - may be their year to lift many limits. It also is an election year, and gun rights have always been a popular campaign platform among conservatives.
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4 comments:
Good for Arizona. Law abiding citizens do not commit gun crimes, and criminals are not deterred by even stringent laws.
You only have to look at Washington DC, with the highest gun violence statistics and the strictest gun laws to understand the negative effect of removing guns from law abiding citizens.
For those who worry about increasing accicdental death among kids with looser gun laws, more children under 14 are killed in swimming pools than in firearm accidents.
Perhaps Arizona and other states should start restricting pool ownership instead.
Kudos to Arizona legislators!
Brickbats to Arizona legislators from those of us with less faith in the rationality of our fellow man (and woman).
Makes me less likely to spend winters in AZ.
But let's not get into a debate here about gun ownership. It's RVTravel, not an NRA magazine.
Best way for a crazy or angry person to kill is with a gun. Arizona is stepping back into the 19th century. I love Arizona but will avoid it in the future.
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