This is the bill I struggled through the other night. I understand that we should be knowledgeable of our laws, but they sure don't make it easy for the common layman who doesn't possess a law degree. As a matter of fact lawyers themselves at times disagree with meaning.
Indeed. And this is part and parcel of The High Road creed, to ask such questions and figure out how to enlighten ourselves.
As I said above, it's slightly complicated in that the verbiage of the statutes from the state online source is not yet updated with this. So we have to bounce back and forth between the amendments in H3594 to the applicable statutes to see where and how they fit it.
I've said this before: I'm not a lawyer. However, I do understand enough in general to know that to get a better idea of what the laws MEAN requires reading them in the full context of the statutes in which they are actually written. Speaking as an engineer, it's kinda like technical manuals and operating procedures for a lot of equipment I work on: what these say to do in any given procedure is predicated on understanding the context in which the procedure is written because the context explains such things as prerequisites, plant conditions, etc. which are required to perform the procedures.
Just going by what people SAY without going to the source documents themselves, especially with respect to both the law and engineering, is a recipe for disaster. How often, for example, do we read/hear of news reports that are way off in left field in their reports on such matters?
A big question here is the applicability of the permitless carry part. I'm a SC resident and have been carrying as far back as when I was still a resident of my birth state, Indiana, a few decades ago. Going through these changes and gaining clarity on the subject is critical to making sure I don't screw up and maybe find myself in a legal bind some day over something I stupidly did not know or understand.
Which is why I may ask (like I did above with
@Insignificant bill) where specific verbiage may be found to support this or that statement. It's important to know what the source actually says and in what context it's saying it.
