Pender: Gun carry right hasn’t brought ‘wild West’
I’ve seen two people who I suspected were just citizens and not law enforcement wearing holstered pistols. Neither caused an uproar, and neither of their pistols jumped out of their holsters and committed a crime.
About this time last year, there was furor about state House Bill 2, the “open carry” bill.
HB 2 allows someone to openly carry a firearm. It caused an uproar, and litigation to block it, even though the state constitution already had given Mississippians such a right since 1890.
In late August last year, with opponents warning it would bring “chaos” and “the wild West” and with no-guns-allowed signs popping up everywhere, the state Supreme Court upheld the law.
Since then, I’ve noticed … nothing.
Clarion Ledger
8/16/14
Magnolia Tribune
