Commentary

Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill: 2nd Amendment Rights Don't End at State Lines

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, December 07 2017

In drafting the Constitution, our Founding Fathers faced a difficult dilemma. On one hand, the fledgling nation was composed of geographically and demographically disparate states. Protecting that diversity and individual state authority at the expense of the centralized national government in the Articles of Confederation, however, had quickly inflamed interstate animosities and stoked economic warfare. In their hypervigilance against an overbearing national government, the Founding Fathers had effectively neutered it and rendered the new nation's government unsustainable. …

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