Monkeyleg
Member.
Wow, Senator Risser is a real idiot.
He really is. He's been in the legislature since 1954. They pretty much keep him around as a curio. He doesn't have any real power, and nobody listens much to what he has to say.
Scimmia, there was never a chance that Constitutional Carry would pass. It was always the scary bill that made shall-issue more acceptable.
The only way it could have passed is if there would have been the numbers of letters and phone calls and demonstrations that accompanied Tom Reynolds' bill to abolish that automatic gas tax increase. That's the level of public support needed to overcome legislative insider dealing. No legislator wanted that bill to see the light of day. It was only when Mark Belling did four solid days on his show on the bill, and told people to call their legislators, that the legislators felt forced to vote for the bill.
The only way to get that kind of show of force would be to get every gun owner in the state calling and writing. Unfortunately, as we learned the hard way during the 2001, 2003 and 2005 battles for shall-issue, there's not a lot of strong support in the gun community for CCW, certainly not the kind of support needed to push a Constitutional Carry bill through the objections of both Republicans and Democrats.