Like I said, the banning of gun sales makes sense in a state of emergency as far as that is concerned.
No it doesn't!
Good grief, guys. Let's picture a
true state of emergency (not the light dusting of snow that has NC in such a dither), such as a severe earthquake that collapsed your home, or a flood or forest fire that forced you to evacuate your home. In a true emergency, your neighbors' homes are similarly affected:
everyone in the area has a collapsed house, or had to evacuate their home because it is about to collapse or be destroyed in some way.
Under North Carolina's existing law, when you flee your home, you must go unarmed. Leave the firearms behind to get destroyed along with the property. That's wrong and bad.
Under North Carolina's existing law, if your home is destroyed and your firearms along with it, you cannot go into a store and purchase the necessary tools to protect yourself from looters, bandits, and predatory criminals while the state of emergency continues. Aggressive criminals prowling your neighborhood, raping women and killing men? Too bad: under law, you cannot replace your destroyed firearms nor can you carry your existing ones to protect yourself or your family.
It's a bad law.
It's a stupid law.
It is -- above all else -- an
immoral law.
And let's not even get into the foolishness of declaring a "state of emergency" when none really exists, simply in order to shake loose a few federal dollars and give the appearance that the politicians are "doing something" about a "crisis."
A few inches of snow is not an emergency. It's weather. It happens. When houses start collapsing in a widespread area,
that's an emergency. Politicians needing a little money to throw at the voters, that's just business as usual.
pax