SCOTUS to Hear Case on NY Carry
By George Devinny. April 27, 2021
It appears that The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association's case regarding carry outside the home is to at last be heard by the Supreme Court, after it has turned down countless 2A cases since the District of Columbia v. Heller. case in 2008. Thus far at least, it seems likely to take a long time with no decision until 2022.
From New York Times:
The new case is a challenge to a New York law that requires people seeking a license to carry a gun outside their homes to show a "proper cause." Two men denied licenses, along with the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, sued, saying "the state makes it virtually impossible for the ordinary law-abiding citizen to obtain a license."
For a start there should not even be a need for a license/permit at all for upstanding citizens, whose rights should be absolute and sacrosanct. Then there is the famous requirement for "good reason" or "proper cause" - which has always been the bureaucratic achilles heel allowing for refusals, all but on a whim. "Good reason" or "proper cause" should be simple - it is the innate right of self defense and should not have to be qualified by some decision as to whether an individual is under some specific threat, itself so often judged adversely by anti-gun administrators.
Also from New York Times:
In urging the Supreme Court not to hear the case from New York, Barbara D. Underwood, the state's solicitor general, said its law required people seeking licenses to give an "actual and articulable" reason for needing to carry a gun, distinguishing it from the more restrictive Illinois and District of Columbia laws.
Unfortunately following more mass murders with firearms and the Dem's plans to apply even stricter restrictions on firearms, any chance of striking down the New York law might be prejudiced by being perceived as undermining such further gun laws. On the other hand, it should be more than obvious that with police departments being under threat and large numbers of police leaving the force, there is ever more need for people to have their own means of defense, and not just within the home. In the best of cases over time, it has long been known that police response times can rarely if ever be fast enough to negate an armed attack and so personal responsibility for self protection has always been paramount, in all locations.
The Supreme Court should not be influenced by administrative anti-gun trends but instead look at the real world risks faced by good people, who in many large cities these days are under increasing threat from armed criminal elements. Of course it is not just New York State with a dismal record on CCW approvals - other states with similar poor records include California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island - they all need to be put right.
One of the popular terms heard a lot is "gun violence", itself a ridiculous misnomer but violence itself is certainly something which could be usefully tackled as an entity irrespective of what 'tools' are used - noting that homicides from edged weapons exceed those from firearms. "The gun" though will continue to always get the blame, if only because the objective is and remains the eventual removal of all civilian firearms. (Good luck with criminal guns).
It has to be wondered since some recent decisions whether Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will be pro 2A and also whether the usually perceived 2A friendly justices will be true to their integrity or whether they will bow to "woke" influences, which have become dangerously effective over the last year in particular.
(An NRA-ILA report on this subject can be found here.)
