The same author wrote two more articles on concealed carry:
Utah, Florida help non-residents pack guns
22 minutes for a concealed-weapon permit
Despite my best journalistic efforts at impartiality, I was amazed at how easy it was to obtain the license and nonplussed about the lack of a training requirement.I don't find either article to be particularly favorable towards gun rights.But I know for a fact that when I applied for my Washington State Concealed Pistol License, I had never fired a revolver or semiautomatic handgun of any caliber. Not once. In fact, I had never even held a loaded pistol in my hands.
He is right though.
It's not a page against concealed carry. It's being non-biased. Admit it.
It's really easy to get a CCW.
The reason that most of the time they don't end up in the wrong hands is because most people who apply know what their getting into.
They know if they're capable of taking the shot, and that their intentions are good.
We miss you, AC.
We miss you, ToddG.
I wouldn't really call the article pro-gun rights at all, it just made us look like less than the assholes they usually portray us to be. Here is where the article went downhill:
Helms’ friends and relatives were left to mourn, barred by the same Castle Doctrine from filing a civil lawsuit.
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
true, though the bottom line is that the robber initiated the armed confrontation. when you pull again on a group of innocent people you're really lost all legal protection to not get shot. Obviously i'm preaching to the choir here, but i think most people with the ability to think clearly can and do see it that way.
I think MSNBC did a fairly good job about just giving objective facts, however I can see how FAR FAR lefties would interpret incorrectly and say that shooting the robber was not needed and the situation could have been avoided.
I think what the citizen did was justifiable since the robber was pointing a gun at him and threatening him.
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