New York Times - hates MO constitutional carry
By Matt Vespa. September 17th, 2016
It's now law. In Missouri, you no longer need a license to carry a firearm in public. They're the 12th state to adopt such a law known as constitutional carry; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) represents a state with such a law. To those who love freedom and the Second Amendment, it's a great day for the expansion of constitutional rights. For anti-gun liberals, it's a day for hysterics, which was perfectly captured by the editorial board of The New York Times:
The measure has drawn no great national attention, but it certainly provides further evidence that gun safety cannot be left to state lawmakers beholden to the gun lobby. Democrats opposed to the Missouri bill called it a "perfect storm" of lowered standards for the use of deadly force and an invitation for people to be armed without responsible controls. The measure was enacted by the Republicans, despite strong public opposition and warnings about the threat to public safety from the state Police Chiefs Association. Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the groups fighting the gun lobby, noted that stand your ground laws result in disproportionate harm to communities of color.
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In the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has called for extensive gun safety measures, including a ban on the assault weapons favored by mass shooters, closing background-check loopholes, ending the gun industry's outrageous protection from civil damage suits and denying guns to risky suspects on the government's no-fly lists. Donald Trump, endorsed by the National Rifle Association, favors more armed civilians ready to engage in what he calls a defensive "shootout." This is one of the most pathetic measures yet of his pandering, when he should be leading, on an issue of vital importance to the public.
If there's any measure endorsed by Everytown, it's bad--and pro-gun rights advocates should pour everything they've got into defeating whatever policy proposal that Everytown leeches itself onto in the future. ....... 
The broken record continues to play, with absurd scare mongering! "Expansion of gun rights will lead to more gun deaths". That of course is simply not the case. Gun homicides have gone down hugely since 1993. In fact, they've been cut in half. Violent crime is still down, save for a few pockets in Democrat run urban areas. We only have to think of Vermont, which has long had constitutional carry, to realize that there are no reports of huge blood baths! The Times is typical of way too many media attitudes.
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