Home Guy wrote:
harry wrote:

RKBA is one of the reasons the citizens of USA have any freedoms
remaining. Though, rapidly shrinking freedoms.

So having guns hasn't helped?

Exactly.

Americans are seeing their rights and freedoms being eroded on a daily
basis, and their guns aren't making any difference in that equation.

On the other hand, laws regulating guns have been liberalized in recent
years and those that haven't have been struck down by the courts.

In 1987, for example, there was only one jurisdiction (Vermont) where a
citizen could carry a concealed weapon without the discretionary approval of
some bureaucrat. Today, 39 states have "shall issue" concealed handgun laws.
"Shall issue" means that if an individual meets the statutorily-defined
requirements for a license (able to stand up, see lightning, and hear
thunder), the licensing authority MUST issue the license - no discretion
involved. All in all, 49 states have some mechanism for concealed handgun
licensing. (The outliers are Illinois and D.C.)

Some states even issue concealed handgun licenses to non-residents (much
like hunting licenses - I wonder if there's a connection) and will do so
entirely by mail (Florida and New Hampshire come to mind). Tennessee and
Texas - to name two - will issue a license, and have, to those who are
legally blind. Florida has issued over two million licenses since 1987 (not
all of them to blind people).

George Zimmerman had one.