{"id":68300,"date":"2021-05-24T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68300"},"modified":"2021-05-24T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:32:05","slug":"68300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68300","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Legislature Votes Overwhelmingly for Constitutional Carry in 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

HB 59<\/a>6 was passed on 5 May, 2021. It is fairly good Constitutional Carry bill with a 21 year old age limit and a requirement to reveal to peace officers your condition of being armed.<\/p>\n

Voting was 73 to 2<\/a>6<\/a>\u00a0for final passage.\u00a0\u00a0From the advocate.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A bill that would allow citizens 21 and older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit breezed through the Louisiana House on Wednesday.<\/i><\/p>\n

The measure,\u00a0House Bill 596<\/a>, won approval 72-28 after a short but spirited debate.<\/i><\/p>\n

It next faces action in the state Senate, which approved a similar bill last week by an equally lopsided margin.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Eight Democrats voted for the bill, with 64 Republicans. 70 votes are needed to override a veto. The eight Democrats voting for the bill were:<\/p>\n

Rep. Brown, Chad [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Carter, Robert “Robby” [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Carter Sr., Wilford Dan [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Cormier, Mack [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Johnson, Cazerrick Travis [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. LaCombe, Jeremy S. [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Thompson, Francis C. [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. White, Malinda B. [D]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One Republican voted against the bill:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Rep. Stagni, Joseph “Joe” A. [R]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two Republicans and a Democrat were absent and did not vote:<\/p>\n

Rep. Cox, Kenny R. [D]<\/p>\n

Rep. Hilferty, Stephanie [R]<\/p>\n

Rep. Villio, Debbie [R]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly after the vote on Constitutional Carry, the House voted unanimously for HB 124.\u00a0 HB\u00a0124 removed the ban<\/a>\u00a0on carrying knives from people who have a concealed carry permit.\u00a0 It passed 94 – 0.\u00a0 It did not make sense for people to have the right to carry pistols, but not knives.<\/p>\n

Constitutional Carry is a reasonable approximation of the state of law when the Second Amendment was ratified, in 1791. At that time, no permit was required to carry weapons, openly or concealed.<\/p>\n

Governor\u00a0John Bel Edwards has promised\u00a0<\/a>he would veto a Constitutional Carry bill. Then the Senate passed SB118, which is similar to HB596. It passed with a strong majority,\u00a027 for and 11 against<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both House and Senate votes are enough to override a governor’s veto. An override would require a 2\/3 majority, 70 votes in the House, and 26in the Senate.<\/p>\n

For a number of reasons, veto overrides are often more difficult to obtain than the original votes suggest. Legislators may wish to go on record as voting for something, knowing the governor will veto it. Then they vote to uphold the veto.\u00a0 There is also party loyalty involved. Many are unwilling to override a veto of a governor of their party.<\/p>\n

It is still good strategy to attempt a veto override of a governor of the opposite party. It shows the base you are serious; it shows principle on the part of the legislators.<\/p>\n

For Democrats, it might show a willingness to go against the party, when their voters are more conservative.<\/p>\n

While an override may be a long shot, it may be work in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Legislature Votes Overwhelmingly for Constitutional Carry in 2021 HB 596 was passed on 5 May, 2021. It is fairly good Constitutional Carry bill with a 21 year old age limit and a requirement to reveal to peace officers your condition of being armed. Voting was 73 to 26\u00a0for final passage.\u00a0\u00a0From the advocate.com: A bill … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68301,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68300\/revisions\/68301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}