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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 1770548" data-attributes="member: 5151">Too small of "baby steps", such as this, tend to not work very well at all. Most people are complacent about letting government control their lives. Many people who argue for "constitutional carry" will have no problem finding another permit as acceptable, much like people have no problem requiring a prescription for a natural substance. I argue that anybody who holds a position in support of any form of permit, licensing, registration, or other documentation to be enemies of the Second Amendment.The NRA's fine lawyers had two chances to actually defend the Second Amendment in Heller and McDonald. Instead, they chose to expose the Second Amendment to further erosion by refusing to argue that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a natural right and therefore an immunity of being a United States citizen and argued that the Second Amendment granted a "right" to keep and bear arms from the government and is therefore subject to "due process" with existing prohibitions presumed Constitutional unless decided otherwise by the Supreme Court except in the case of a single handgun within a person's home for their self defense inside that home.Perhaps a better alternative would be to put together an initiative petition to strike the final clause from Article 2 § 26 of the Oklahoma Constitution. After all, as the Oklahoma Constitution currently stands, outright prohibition of bearing arms in a public setting, concealed or unconcealed, without first being summoned by a governmental power, qualifies as "constitutional carry".Cost of such a petition? ~$250,000 just to get it on the ballot, plus campaigning...</blockquote>

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