As expected, the DC Court of Appeals panel has struck down the restrictions on Concealed Carry, that the DC City Council put in place after their virtual complete ban was struck down.
These people will never accept that the 2nd amendment means they can't enact gun restrictions. They're going to have to be spanked every time they try, again and again.
As always, the reason to allow concealed carry is clear. Even if it was permitted, most people wouldn't bother carrying. But a few would. And some criminal who is considering a crime, would know that it's legal for the people in the crowd to carry a concealed gun. And he would know that most of them probably don't have a gun anyway... but he won't know which ones do. So he knows he would probably be met with a bullet from an unexpected direction.
It's enough to get a criminal to change jobs.
Concealed carry is the best way to prevent crimes from happening in the first place. And it works without a shot being fired. It's not perfect, a few really insane criminals might go ahead and mug that old lady anyway, or kill that guy they don't like anyway. But many of them won't. Of the 300,000,000 people in the U.S., victims, and even lives, will be saved.
Liberals are dead set against any such plan, of course.
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Appeals court blocks strict DC concealed carry permit law | Fox News
Appeals court blocks strict DC concealed carry permit law
Published July 25, 2017
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has blocked a District of Columbia law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits.
A divided three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the law requiring people to show "good reason to fear injury" or another "proper reason" to carry a weapon infringes on residents' Second Amendment rights.
D.C. officials can ask the full appeals court to review the ruling.
Under the law, reasons to get a permit might include a personal threat, or a job that requires a person to carry or protect cash or valuables. Lower court judges have disagreed on whether the law is constitutional.
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