I vote yes. It doen't make the library anymore dangerous, every day you are probably making contact with people who legally carry concealed and you wouldn't even know it most of the time.
I have been carrying for over 8 years and have never been revealed or had to use it.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Except that the Constitution, according to the most recent Supreme Court decisions, allows govenrments to regulate the use and carrying and type of arms. According to the Heller decision, the only place where the government may not prohibit the carrying and use of guns is in your home. Otherwise, the government may regulate the place where one may carry a gun. Further, private homes and businesses (not applicable in the case of libraries) may prohibit the carrying of guns. According to Justice Scalia:
. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
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The right to carry concealed should not be hinged on anything or stopped by anything or anyone. It is call concealed for a reason and if one has the permit to do so legally then it should not be infringed upon. IMO
Something the Dog Said wrote: Except that the Constitution, according to the most recent Supreme Court decisions, allows govenrments to regulate the use and carrying and type of arms. According to the Heller decision, the only place where the government may not prohibit the carrying and use of guns is in your home. Otherwise, the government may regulate the place where one may carry a gun. Further, private homes and businesses (not applicable in the case of libraries) may prohibit the carrying of guns. According to Justice Scalia:
. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
Just because a goverment has the right to do it, doesn't mean it is a smart thing to do.
Example: ban it? So if I was going to the library, I see the sign, walk back to my car, lock up my loaded gun in the interior. I could be seen doing this by someone who wants a gun and breaks into my car. Now instead of a responsible legal citizen carrying you have an unlicensed person with a loaded stolen pistol.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Since the government has the right to do so, then in my opinion, it is up to a local community to decide whether it is appropriate or not based on their local community standards. So I believe that Boulder is correct in having a discussion on the policy in their local libraries. Certainly if you do not feel safe being without your guns, then you have the right to go to another library or another community that suits your needs.
If you are concerned about leaving loaded weapons in your vehicle, then do as most responsible gun owners do and have a bolted down lock box securely mounted in your vehicle.
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