Nice Job, AZ.
“All we’re doing is handcuffing good people, restricting their constitutional, God-given right to carry and perhaps their ability to defend their families,”
Way to go, Arizona. Keep it up. Lastly, note this:
The gun rights bills follow a string of new, less-restrictive gun laws passed last year. They were helped make possible by the elevation of Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, to replace Janet Napolitano, a Democrat who vetoed efforts to loosen gun laws until she resigned a year ago to join the Obama administration.
The fight for 2A rights are NOT won and lost on the federal level, or even broadly on the state level. They’re won by awareness in small local elections, putting people with your views in the pipeline and eventually helping them to a place where they’re making positive changes.
I agree with the passing of the bill but there is a flaw that I found. The course that is required to obtain the CCW permit is the only course that offers gun safety. The loss of the CCW permit would also be a loss to the instruction of the course.
I have taken the program and many in the class never held a firearm before, much less proper maintenance and safety. The class was extremely useful on educating the standard citizen on safety and protocol. I feel that while the CCW permit need not be missed, the educational program will be.