Some far left coast fucked up and worthless state has a travel ban against some states for some make believe discrimination against ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (or some such alphabet soup shit) persons or groups.  

Anyway, that got me to thinking.   Kentucky should have a state ban on travel to all states that do not honor the KY CDWL.    That would actually be objective and reasonable.    How can we push that agenda?

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Not a bad idea. But the states that have instituted such bans have much larger economies than KY does.

And, legislators in KY don't care about progressing gun rights. But they did pass several anti-abortion laws, so maybe from that angle? Most likely states with restrictions on gun ownership so as to "Save teh babies!" are the same states that don't consider babies humans and have a free-for-all on abortions.

Do you want to advance gun rights or do you want to advance an entire conservative agenda? They require different strategies and criteria. They will engage or enrage different opponents as well.

Also consider the love of sports in KY. The first time that UofL or UK can't go to a bowl game or, ironically, the UK shooting teams can't go win more national competitions there will be a shitstorm about the state schools not paying for travel.

It's certainly an interesting idea.  One could even push it further beyond honoring the KY CCDW to mandating allowing their own citizens to exercise their constitutionally protected rights.  "Honor the Constitution or 'F you'" makes more sense than "Allow (illegal immigrants/illegal drugs/etc) or 'F you'".  

You can't fly on an airline if your ID is from the "wrong state" and there is an absurd hodgepodge of what types of ID will work for what activities (travel, voting, buying guns, etc.)  If the nation can't even get their shit squared away on drivers licenses and IDs, I'd be shocked if they could do anything sensible with CCDW permits.  



Instead of just travel, how about no travel or trade with those states?  Like mentioned already, it could either cut our throats on trade (counting only sea ports from the top 10 largest, ban states account for 265,743,977 short tons of total trade in the US - KY goods have to come in and go out somewhere) and tourism, or it could be incentive to a) spread reciprocity b) make more stuff in the commonwealth c) increase local tourism.  I have an idea of which side of that equation we would realistically land on.

Or d) Completely isolate Ky. from the rest of the country and bankrupt the state. Doesn't sound too bad. Let's give it a whirl.

Well, in my opinion, that pretty much falls under "cut our throats on trade and tourism."  That would be the either part of the either (bad) or (good) posed in my quoted post.  I figured that it was clear that I didn't mean that a literal knife would be put to every Kentuckian's throat but, rather, a negative outcome would occur.

I don't think that "Completely isolate Ky. from the rest of the country and bankrupt the state" belongs in the list of possible good outcomes that is juxtaposed with the likely bad outcome above.