Apparently concealed carry needs to be banned both because it will cause lots of murders and also because handguns are hard to handle and shoot accurately
No idea how anecdotal evidence is a rebuttal to "this group of people commits less crime than the public as a whole"
Like I said: Stuck in the 90s
VPC complains about "high-capacity pistols" with 10 round magazines:
VPC complains about "semiautomatic assault pistols" that people are "hosing down" neighborhoods with:
VPC is worried about the many people who will apparently carry S&W 500s if concealed carry is allowed:
VPC complains about hollow-point ammo, which the police overwhelmingly use because it's less likely to injure bystanders than other types:
"Handguns are in fact the least effective firearm for self-defense for all but a small group of individuals, such as police officers, who are well trained and maintain their skills with regular and intensive practice."
Source: Some gun guy in 1998
Weird argument to make if you just complained about hollow-point ammo
No idea how suicides are relevant to the ability to carry a handgun you already own in public
Anecdotal, and specifically avoids comparing that number to the public at large
No idea why they thought using multiple examples from New York would help their argument
VPC says "widespread devastation and death" will ensue if New York joins the 40+ other states with shall-issue carry:
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"Because the government has the burden, the lack of evidence would cut in favor of Plaintiffs’ challenge. But this case ends early under the Ninth Circuit’s pre-emptive carve-out for longstanding restrictions, described next."
"It also means that a citizen may not bring an otherwise protected weapon, for example an AR-15 rifle, into a school, the Capitol, a courthouse, a church, or other sensitive places where a legislative body has prescribed reasonable regulations."
"If judges accept Young’s invitation to uphold firearm restrictions without further analysis, a longstanding firearm restriction may be left stuck in the past, only because it has not been challenged before the present."
One judge asks Deerfield if the law's amendments (to ban the specified guns) is a repeal and replace. Deerfield says it isn't. Judge asks which parts of the original amendment are still intact.
Deerfield claims that it doesn't ban ownership of "assault weapons" because you just have to keep them outside the city.
Brady: "Americans’ Second Amendment rights must be drawn so as to not infringe on the right of every individual to live, which necessarily includes a right not to be shot."
"Treating the Second Amendment as blanket permission to carry guns in the public square—as Petitioners urge—would render the social contract illusory."