why we need unconditional carry

I've noticed several replies mentioned that "felons" may not buy guns. The law they refer to defines felon as anyone who has been convicted of a "crime" punishable by more than a year in prison. I'm so glad the government doesn't let felons like the one in the picture buy guns.
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why we need mandatory reciprocity

Because the Constitution says so.

Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
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I don't like the Constitution, but it is the law. If you don't like it, we have an amendment process for that.
 
Based on the cyrillic character before the numbers, I'm guessing that's a political prisoner in a gulag, and he's being ironic.
 
The problem with "reciprocity" is that it preserves and confirms the validity of a licencing system on a right.

We don't need a bill or a Constitutional amendment; we need an affirmation of the right to bear arms. That'll come in the courts.
 
The problem with "reciprocity" is that it preserves and confirms the validity of a licencing system on a right.

We don't need a bill or a Constitutional amendment; we need an affirmation of the right to bear arms. That'll come in the courts.
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BINGO!
 
Double bingo.

Short (intermediate?) term, I agree that the full faith and credit clause should result in national reciprocity. Long term, I also agree that there should not be any need for reciprocity because the language of the 2nd Amendment leaves no room for licenses.

"... the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

It just doesn't get any clearer than that.
 
We already have the right... We just need to get the executive and legislative branches to have no choice but to acknowledge that they have limits to their power... they simply cannot legislatively and through imperial decree (executive order) make guns go away....
 
You don't like the Constitution?

That's rather un-American. Are you an American citizen?
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Yes, I am a natural-born U.S. citizen.

As I said before, the Constitution supported slavery at one time. Does being a "real American" mean you have to agree with everything your government does?
 
Absolutely not! But the American way is to go along with the majority, once they have had their say. However, I will have to say it is a messy, inefficient system, compared to, say, a monarchy. A monarchy is a system of government in which the son becomes head of state after his father, which would never happen in this country.

Would it?
 
Because the Constitution supported slavery? This is why you don't like it? Or you don't like that part of it? I don't agree with everything my Country has done, yet to me, The Constitution is perhaps one of the finest things ever put in writing. I'll even say it is major cornerstone of this society, which I'll take over any other out there. Does it make one "un-American" to disagree with parts? Nope. But to say you don't like it as a whole...well I guess the Constitution allows for that as well :D
 
the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

It just doesn't get any clearer than that.
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Yet SO many forget those all-important first words, and before we get into the bit how everyone is de facto in a militia, no they are not. The whole quote, can therefore be argued to limit this right to those in the organized States' militia who (especially at the time), had more power than the Federal government - and should in today's world as well, regardless of new rulings.

This argument has come up here a hundred times before
 
Because the Constitution supported slavery? This is why you don't like it?
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No, that is not true. I dislike the Constitution because in article 1 section 8 it gives Congress an unlimited power to tax. We need a Constitutional limit on how high the taxes can go during peacetime.
 
We constantly judge the past by the standards of our time and yet it would be difficult for any of us to understand the standards that they lived with and why they were the way they were... Lots of things happen in history, and if appologies need to happen then everyone pretty much needs to appologize to everybody. I am aware of no race, color or lack of color, of any people on the face of the earth that have not been enslaved at one time or another or in some way treated as a serious underdog.

The Constitution was a product of the beliefs at the time and despite its good and its bad parts it has led us to being the most advanced society this planet has ever seen.... and previous to the last two decades enjoying some of the greatest freedoms on earth.

Certainly like all nations at some point near or far others will judge our nation for the beliefs we had in given time periods, should we hope they will be charitable or maybe they should condem us for not understanding what future beliefs will bring as we seem to like to do to our ancestors..
 
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No, that is not true. I dislike the Constitution because in article 1 section 8 it gives Congress an unlimited power to tax.
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OK, so let's throw it out and start from scratch. Who wants to guess how the new one will be written, and how it will work?

Few things frighten me more.

Except maybe sharks.
 
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