Editor’s Note: Gun Pulse, formerly an email newsletter from The Sentinel meant to cover the battle over the Second Amendment in our nation, is now exclusively available on our website.

The core faculty member of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wrote an opinion piece opposing permitless carry.

Alex McCourt, who also works as a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, claimed in an article for The Charlotte Observer that a permitless carry bill allowing residents to conceal their firearms without government permission would negatively impact North Carolina.

The researcher asserted that permitless carry “would make us even less safe” and also claimed that “if these bills are passed, research is clear, it will be paid for in North Carolinian lives.”