It is no longer a matter of debate. Democrats want to take your money and your guns. They speak openly about both with enthusiasm as if it is good for us. Their gun laws are not good for Detroit, or Baltimore, or Chicago, so has America’s largest territory seen that and turned a corner?
Puerto Rico has taken a big step forward, making it easier for law-abiding citizens to possess and carry firearms.
On December 11, Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez Garced signed the Puerto Rico Weapons Act of 2020. The legislation overhauled the territory’s gun laws in a manner that will make it easier for the island’s residents and visitors to exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Changes include a common combined form of licensing, (slightly) lower fees, and reciprocity with any US State that issues carry permits to its residents.
Prior to the enactment of the Weapons Act, Puerto Ricans could apply for a possession license, or a much harder to obtain carry license. The Weapons Act combines the two licenses into a single license. Moreover, this single license will be shall-issue.
The Island’s gun laws are still stricter than many US states, and much more so than New Hampshire. But the new law is a step in the right direction. As the Daily Caller notes in its coverage, it is something from which a few US jurisdictions could learn.
Crime vs. The Left’s Common Sense Gun Laws
Puerto Rico’s crime rate is high, though down slightly from its 20-year average. As of 2016, violent crime (murder/homicide rate) was 18.51 per hundred thousand. For contrast, gun-crazy wild-west, constitutional carry New Hampshire’s is 1.73.
Democrats would like to embrace the policies of states where that number is much higher. Baltimore, for example, is more dangerous than Puerto Rico. New Hampshire Democrats want the Granite State to be more like Baltimore. Why?
It might be a parallel effort to their green narratives. More murder means fewer people and to their thinking that “saves the planet.” Just not for anyone violently murdered as a result of their anti-gun policies.
We do, of course, know why. Power. You can speak openly with enthusiasm about taking other people’s money, but if you want to do that forever, they can’t be armed. The oppressive tax and spend regulatory state cannot operate without a police state. The police state cannot function if everyone has firearms.
In utopia, only the ruling class has firepower. The guns have to go. But we’ve got the constitution thing and a Second Amendment written to prevent the very thing the left wants.
But you knew these common-sense facts with voting age-friends. And let’s keep the lefty tyrants from spinning our governor into embracing any of their nonsense until November and then vote the Democrats out of the majority.
