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[TPaine7]

Last I checked, Alabama still had discretionary concealed carry. I lived there for many years. I didn't even bother to apply to the local discretion for CCW. I daresay I actually know the attitudes of people there better than you most.

The "civil rights era" isn't over.

"Discretion" is practiced in many areas still. You can't prove that you didn't get your license because you are black (or you donated to the sheriff's opponent, or he resented you dating his daughter, or he doesn't like people with British accents, or his wife left him...). Who do you think is more likely to meet the sheriff's discretion, the guy whose executive father donated to his campaign and plays golf with him weekly of the black mechanic with a perfect criminal record who lives in LA? Who do you suppose needs it more?

And it doesn't even matter if the executive and his privileged son are black, too. Classicism is unconstitutional just like racism. The Fourteenth Amendment calls for equal protection of the laws.