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This law is going to be struck down as unconstitutional almost immediately.
If they're going to ban open carry, they need to remove all fees and procedures (prints, etc) for obtaining a concealed carry permit. Otherwise, it only serves to disenfranchise poorer people.
Odd that it could be struck down as unconstitutional since CT banned open carry when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were passed.
Edit: It was actually Rhode Island that did although Connecticut did pass gun control measures in the early 1800s.
The right to bear arms for self defense is in enshrined in the Connecticut Constitution, with no explicit or implied exceptions.
The US Supreme Court ruled last year, that, quote, "Americans have a constitutional right to carry a firearm in public places, arguing that a century-old New York law requiring a 'proper cause' to carry a gun outside of the home is a violation of Second Amendment rights."
That case they ruled on is from when New York tried to do the same thing (setting a precedent).
The law is in outright defiance of the latest Supreme Court interpretation, and the Connecticut Constitution.
Let's not pretend the Supreme Court gives a shit about precedent even if it is recent. Conservatives killed that idea.
Aren't poorer people the ones who do more crime?
Not sure. How many poor people were working in the financial sector when the banks misrepresented the value of mortgage backed securities and sold them to pension funds?
The topic is gun violence.
Fine. If you narrowly define crime as that which involves a gun I am fairly confident you will find that it relates to income levels.
“Crimes” of despair added in maybe, maybe not. Things are criminalized that enough money means not really (epstein’s island), privacy to snort/smoke/inject drugs of choice, solicit sexual services; bribes, embezzlement, tax evasion; and not all crimes are equal, nor should be criminal.
There are multiple orders of magnitude more poor people, and per capita they commit more gun crimes than the rich.
Surely this is due to desperation and lack of opportunity and minimal access to mental health care. But we're not fixing any of that, are we.
Maybe the rich can afford to have their gun crimes committed for them?
But we’re not fixing any of that, are we.
Of course not. Perhaps because it would work?