WOOHOO!!!!
A big thanks to anyone and everyone who had any hand in making this happen! This is really a great opinion not just because of the judgement to reverse, but because it was so well written, and so explicitly demonstrated that our Delaware Constitutional protection is merely a protection of a natural and pre-existing right.
whatevah wrote:They also believe that state parks and forests are "sensitive" (like a courthouse).
I couldn't believe the Dissent actually went along with that at all - or that anyone would be stupid enough to even try claiming such with a straight face. Forrests, parks, wildlife, etc, being comprised of
NATURE, are by the very definition of the word the
NATURAL e.g.
de facto state of being - there is no way for the default position, in its most general sense, to ever be so "sensitive" as to be set aside as a
special case for regulation!
Owen wrote:I read up to the descent and stopped. Can't stand to hear whining.
Some takeaways I see: we can carry in state parks of course (yes ommelanden, I looking at you! ), we can also open carry in school zones and recreation areas, just don't commit a crime. Yes, that means U of D too. Delaware has always been an open carry state!
Good stuff!
I had to browse over a good bit of the descent too, the repetitive whining just got too annoying
The part about the Delaware Safe Schools and Recreation Zones law isn't anything new or that was in question; they merely referred to the current state of being for that law to show that even schools weren't being regulated as restrictively as the supposedly "sensitive" natural areas.