Black gun owners in New Jersey have pushed back against a recent concealed carry law, with one firearms instructor saying the law, like many other gun laws, targets and criminalizes minority communities, according to PBS affiliate WHYY.
The instructor, Douglas Worthen, argued that the recent legislation, which heightens requirements for gun ownership, will block black residents from defending themselves, while one of the law’s changes, an increase in fees, will further deter marginalized community members from seeking a permit, according to WHYY. The bill would require gun owners who seek a concealed carry permit to purchase liability insurance and take training courses, while also increasing permit fees and restricting guns in “sensitive places” like schools, public parks, courthouses and bars, according to the legislation.
Worthen believes the “sensitive places” restriction will block people from defending themselves outside of their homes, according to WHYY. “Black ancestors … at one point couldn’t even possess any firearms at all. The infringement on people of color in this country has been around for a very, very long time. It still exists present-day, but just has a different form.”
The New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center reported in 2022 that black and Hispanic gun owners are more likely to carry a gun outside of their home, and the new law will not only limit that ability, but also increase the cost, according to WHYY. “When [people] see these fees, they get discouraged and are like ‘you know what, I’m not paying that,’” Worthen said.
Buying insurance, increasing permit cost, etc, will not deter few from carrying concealed. They will carry anyway, just as they are now. The only difference is they won’t have the legal permit. Concealed carry is just what it sounds like, concealed. If they act respectable during a routine traffic stop and break no other laws, allowing for a pat down, who will know? New Jersey coffers are the losers this time.
lmao. yeah right. what other rights do you need to have someone approve for you to exercise? get a permit and take a course before you exercise your right of free speech? freedom to worship, freedom to assemble? piss off!
Just wait.
DEMOCRATS will soon require a “registration fee” for attending a church.
A “permit” to write anything critical of their Nazi programs and policies.
They already have in place something called “hate speech”. I keep looking for something in the Constitution the democrats (and, YES, it was DEMOCRATS who came up with THAT Constitutional “protection”) used to clamp down on free speech they don’t like, but I just can’t find it. Anywhere.
They (democrats), if they had their way, would require fees and permits to use ANY rights that….wait for it……GOD gave us — not any slimy politician or cop. GOD.
Carry a gun. Learn about Jury Nullification, which basically says, just so you know, that when you are on a jury, you CAN DECIDE WHATEVER YOU WANT, regardless of what “the law” or the prosecutor says you must do.
It is so dangerous to their Nazi ideas that you are not allowed to speak about it in a court (you will be forcefully escorted from the courtroom for even MENTIONING IT— by armed men of the regime), but it IS IN THE CONSTITUTION and one of our GOD GIVEN rights. A right the government doesn’t want you to know about….
It is perfectly legal. PERFECTLY LEGAL and there is NOTHING THEY CAN DO when you use that right. NOTHING.
So, if you are carrying a gun without Nazi papers and permission and you shoot a carjacker, the police WILL CERTAINLY arrest you for murder. If I’m on the jury, you’ll be home for dinner and I hope you’d do the same for any other citizen.
Permission, my ace. The thug didn’t need your “permission” to kill my family. I don’t need yours to protect them.
More democrat BS.
Disarm honest taxpayers and let gangsters run rampant.
Oh. And TAX the hell out of the honest people, too. Welfare recipients and thugs don’t pay them, either.
I have “Jury Nullification” printed on a few things I see daily. That way I will always remember the term if ever needed.