I'm against a National Concealed Carry law. States rights.

1. The Commerce Clause and/or General Welfare Clause, probably.

2. No, it wouldn't follow because of the Second Amendment, imho. The Constitution sometimes allows Congress to do something, while barring Congress from doing the opposite. Maybe a poor example, but the only one that now occurs to me: Congress can help fund PBS, but couldn't ban PBS from broadcasting or dictate the content of the broadcasts.

3. I don't think a national CC act raises hard questions of federalism, but I could be looking at this from the wrong angle. (It wouldn't be the first time.) There definitely is a states' rights issue here, and I have to say I'm not sure how it would shake out.

A national ban on CC not only raises state's rights issues, but Second Amendment issues as well.

Jim

"Most Constitutional protections for individual rights are contained in the Bill of Rights, which constitute the first ten amendments to the Constitution. These amendments were adopted shortly after the adoption of the Constitution itself, in response to state concerns about the Constitution’s lack of protections for individual rights. The protections of these amendments were originally interpreted to apply only against the federal government, but the Supreme Court has since ruled that most of them were made applicable to the states by passage of the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause after the Civil War."

There is that illegally proposed and ratified, rush it through , 14th screwing up the original idea again.

See Jim your individual rights are protected by your State Constitution. All you have to fear is the Federal government run by all them other States, which has been the historical problem in Alaska.

"Alaska: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be denied or infringed by the State or a political subdivision of the State."

Thanks Jim !! Good example on PBS.

I could be mis-remembering..but it seems to me that when he was asked about the general welfare clause....Jefferson replied that it only applied to the enumerated powers. I am sure the SC and Congress has ignored that statement in its historical context of an answer, rather than actual text in the Constitution

I wonder if people who vote in democrats that write these state laws, and then look to republicans and conservatives (at the federal and court level) to save them understand their mistake?

That's rich if they don't!

To answer your question. Jim doesn't.

Or he does and just doesn't give a crap.