They are giving authority to police to >dictate who can or cannot obtain a gun permit.
Like wtf, fuck the police, I don’t trust them with >shit.
Give that power to like, idk, some sort of jury and maybe we’ll talk about gun control. But I ain’t trusting cops with the discretion to hand out gun permits. They’ll give it to a white young-adult that’s racist as fuck and threatened people, but will simultaneously refuse to give a permit to a black store owner seeking for a gun to defend against a potential white mob trying to attack his store.
Fun fact: NC “recently” (idfk 1-2yr ago) got rid of their Pistol Purchase Permit required to buy a handgun, because it was found that the Sheriffs (who had the authority to approve the permits) were using the law to discriminate. Iirc around the time I read 60% of denials were to black people. That state and others still gatekeep the CCW permit behind the exact same system. Just evidence to your point.
That said, a jury can be, and often is as we’ve seen, racist too. A NICs check oughta be enough, if you can’t trust someone to carry one you can’t trust them to have it at all imo. Hell even a NICs check, I personally think nonviolent felons should have a path back to firearms ownership, and don’t care if someone is an unlawful user of marijuana.
Manditory safety training, depending on price and time, imo is a barrier to entry for the poor and trivial for the rich. It’d have to be well thought out.
Permits? Bad. Registry? Literal fascism, it’s time to “go.” Idfc if it’s jury, idfc if it’s private companies not the feds, no.
No actually I think more women should carry them and learn the laws regarding defense in their locale. Know plenty myself that already do.
And women seem to agree with me, which is why they’ve been one of the fastest growing groups of new gun owners in the past few years.