Above: Here's life with everybody carrying guns.
If someone says they want to be able to openly carry a firearm in a modern city without being considered a public safety hazard, tell them that openly carrying a firearm in a modern city - unless you are a uniformed police officer - IS a public safety hazard, whether the law says so or not. It might as well say so.
- Guns in the open: State should not pre-empt cities - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial
The mythical times of the Old West, where cowboys strode the streets with six-guns strapped to their belts, are dead, but gun-rights advocates in the Legislature are doing their best to revive them. They want to pre-empt Utah cities and towns from making it unlawful for people to openly carry guns. We wouldn’t bother to shoot at this farcical idea except that it already has passed a House committee by a 10-3 vote. ...
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