Reply #11: so, what did you miss? [View All]

[iverglas]

You copied it, you pasted it, you replied to it, but you didn't understand it?

I stated:

In any event, given that the only practicable bar to being "lawfully" armed in a whole lot of places in the US these days is having a criminal record,"...

Was it the practicable bar bit you didn't get?

How about "lawfully" armed?

Well, what is "lawfully armed"? Why, as you point out, outside Vermont and Alaska, it is carrying a concealed weapon with a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

And what is the only "practicable bar" to carrying a concealed weapon with a permit to carry a concealed weapon?

Well, it would be having a criminal record, which is what would prevent one from having a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and would therefore mean that if one went about "armed", one would not be doing so "lawfully".

And so, as I said, the only practicable bar to being "lawfully" armed in a whole lot of places in the US these days (i.e. those places with those "shall issue" laws, plus Vermont and Alaska) is having a criminal record.

So perhaps you would care to back up the allegation you made, that my statement was "untrue", with something? Money and mouth in the same place?