{"id":88639,"date":"2022-12-14T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T15:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88639"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T15:49:50","slug":"88639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88639","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska senator confident permitless carry bill will pass<\/a><\/p>\n

One wouldn\u2019t picture Nebraska as being anti-gun. Then again, it\u2019s not really. It\u2019s just not as pro-gun as some might imagine.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, like many places, a couple of urban areas have a lot more say in matters than they should. Just enough to block permitless carry from passing last year, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n

Well, the lawmaker behind that bill is back with it again, only this time,\u00a0he thinks it will pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

he new legislative session is just weeks away, and one state lawmaker believes that some controversial bills have a good chance at passing.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tom Brewer said that includes his gun rights bill, which would bring permitless concealed carry to Nebraska.<\/p>\n

The proposal\u00a0fell just two votes short<\/a>\u00a0of the 33 needed to overcome a filibuster last legislative session.<\/p>\n

Brewer said in a column last week that November\u2019s election made the Nebraska Legislature slightly more conservative, so there are finally enough votes to advance several priorities.<\/p>\n

After the last session, Brewer told Channel 8 in June that this bill would be his top priority going into the next session.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe very first bill that I will drop in the next session will be constitutional carry,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat the decision today has done has helped us to better shine a light on why it\u2019s important, and to take away some of the concerns folks had about legalities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Constitutional carry, permitless carry, they both amount to the same thing. They mean that law-abiding citizens don\u2019t have to ask for government permission to carry a firearm.<\/p>\n

And they should pass it.<\/p>\n

Critics will claim that constitutional carry will benefit bad guys. Some have started trying to frame it as \u201ccriminal carry.\u201d What they miss is that the bad guys are already carrying guns. It\u2019s only the law-abiding being hamstrung by permit requirements, which in Nebraska includes mandatory training for a carry permit.<\/p>\n

That creates still more delays, all while the bad guys are just ignoring the law.<\/p>\n

So permitless carry doesn\u2019t empower anyone but the law-abiding.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my sincere hope that Nebraska passes his measure. No one should have to take a particular class in order to exercise a constitutionally protected right, and the Second Amendment is about the right to keep\u00a0and bear<\/em>\u00a0arms.<\/p>\n

Permitless carry is just a step in the right direction, to be sure.<\/p>\n

But do they have the votes? That remains to be seen. I\u2019m not as familiar with the politics of the state as I\u2019d like to be before speculating on it, but falling just a couple of votes shy last year is a promising sign this year. If they can get those two votes, then permitless carry is a done deal in the state and the people of Nebraska will no longer be required to jump through hoops just to get a carry permit.<\/p>\n

Especially since there\u2019s little evidence that training requirements yield any actual benefits except to make anti-gunners feel better.<\/p>\n

Then again, screw poor people who want to defend themselves, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nebraska senator confident permitless carry bill will pass One wouldn\u2019t picture Nebraska as being anti-gun. Then again, it\u2019s not really. It\u2019s just not as pro-gun as some might imagine. That\u2019s because, like many places, a couple of urban areas have a lot more say in matters than they should. Just enough to block permitless carry … 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":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88639","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=88639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88640,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88639\/revisions\/88640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}