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Related: About this forumLouisiana passes Constitutional Amendment Right of each Citizen to keep and bear arms
73-27%
http://www.nola.com/politics/results/
That brings us to Tuesday's ballot. Voters will be asked to remove the constitutional language that says Louisiana can pass laws to prohibit concealed weapons. Voters are also asked to rig it so that any law proposed to limit gun rights is just about guaranteed to fail. In order for such a law to survive, it would have to survive the courts' "strict scrutiny," a standard of review that precious few laws survive.
Removing the language that says concealed weapons laws are OK wouldn't take away the Louisiana Legislature's ability to pass restrictions. But it might doom such restrictions to failure. It seems anti-democratic to declare that future lawmakers -- elected by the people -- can't pass laws they deem necessary to keep people safe.
If the amendment passes, will felons have a fundamental right to hide weapons on themselves? Will bringing your piece to a parade, a stadium, a school playground all of a sudden be allowed? Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro thinks the amendment's a pandora's box, that it's going to bring us all sorts of unpleasant surprises including, as he just wrote for The Times-Picayune, "a flurry of litigation in which criminal defendants will challenge the constitutionality of current criminal laws regulating gun possession."
It's his opinion that the amendment is a backdoor way to make Louisiana a state where nobody -- and he does mean nobody -- can be legally stopped from carrying a hidden gun. In that case, we'd have even more death and destruction on our hands. But we can tolerate that, can't we Louisiana? So long as our guns are OK.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/11/constitutional_amendment_no_2.html
Removing the language that says concealed weapons laws are OK wouldn't take away the Louisiana Legislature's ability to pass restrictions. But it might doom such restrictions to failure. It seems anti-democratic to declare that future lawmakers -- elected by the people -- can't pass laws they deem necessary to keep people safe.
If the amendment passes, will felons have a fundamental right to hide weapons on themselves? Will bringing your piece to a parade, a stadium, a school playground all of a sudden be allowed? Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro thinks the amendment's a pandora's box, that it's going to bring us all sorts of unpleasant surprises including, as he just wrote for The Times-Picayune, "a flurry of litigation in which criminal defendants will challenge the constitutionality of current criminal laws regulating gun possession."
It's his opinion that the amendment is a backdoor way to make Louisiana a state where nobody -- and he does mean nobody -- can be legally stopped from carrying a hidden gun. In that case, we'd have even more death and destruction on our hands. But we can tolerate that, can't we Louisiana? So long as our guns are OK.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/11/constitutional_amendment_no_2.html
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Louisiana passes Constitutional Amendment Right of each Citizen to keep and bear arms (Original Post)
bluedigger
Nov 2012
OP
As I remember even in the old west you had to check in your firearms from time to time.
gordianot
Nov 2012
#1
Good for LA, they proposed what they wanted and passed it 73-27, yay democracy.
Peepsite
Nov 2012
#3
So, a convicted criminal will not be brought up on illegal possession of a firearm?
Eleanors38
Nov 2012
#6
gordianot
(15,245 posts)1. As I remember even in the old west you had to check in your firearms from time to time.
The same goes for Saloons sort of like checking in your hat. Will avoid Louisiana.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)2. Just carry a bible over your heart to the parade.
Should stop most bullets.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)4. that was only a few places in Arizona and
maybe in Kansas, even then it didn't apply to people who actually lived there.
Peepsite
(113 posts)3. Good for LA, they proposed what they wanted and passed it 73-27, yay democracy.
Clames
(2,038 posts)5. Can't get more out of touch with reality than the author of...
...that article. Well, maybe a few of the usual anti-gun fellows here will give it their best effort but that is a mighty high bar even for them...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. So, a convicted criminal will not be brought up on illegal possession of a firearm?