camo556
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- Aug 29, 2021
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Rights can expand, they don't contract.
well.. Rights do contract. People definitely have less privacy now than 100 years ago.
But.. the idea that banning concealed carry was ok misreads history. People should read Halbrook before commenting.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/01/the-right-to-bear-arms-by-stephen-halbrook-book-review/
Prohibitions on concealed carry came from the south and were also generally limited to the south. They were also initially struck down. Restrictions on CC were controversial. And a lot of states didn't ban it - ironically, in the North.
People making these silly arguments about CC and NY winning haven't read Halbrook (who is 3-0 and authored an amicus brief), haven't read Kopel's brief, and most importantly didn't listen to orals. The majority debated how far to go in the opinion, how badly NY would lose, not whether NY was losing. NY was especially ineffective here because they did not seem to have a fallback and not understand their audience. I dont know what they were smoking that day.