Wisconsin recently became the 49th state to allow some form of CCW, and predictably the anti's are trotting out all of the usual "the sky is falling!" antics. Y'know, they've been spewing the same disproven bullshit for about as long as I've been alive.
It's sad, the anti's protestations are so contrived and unoriginal that I can guess what's going to be said before even reading the article. Clint Eastwood / Wild West reference? Check. The gun will just be taken away from you by criminals and used against you? Check. Average citizens are just too stupid / untrained to effectively use a gun in self defense? Check. The cops won't be able to tell the good guys from the bad guys? Check. Carrying a gun won't save you anyway, so don't bother? Check. Of course, said gun transforms into a magical lifesaving device when in the hands of a cop, naturally.
I particularly liked this bit by Mr. Kane,
"For cops, a concealed carry law turns every traffic stop, public event or encounter with an angry civilian into a nerve-racking test to figure out who might be packing heat and who isn't."
Bullshit. Every cop goes into a traffic stop with a certain level of apprehension. Any person they pull over could have a gun on them and be ready and willing to use it. This is true in DC, where no one can legally carry a loaded gun in the car, and it's true in KY, where legal gun owners can keep their piece in the glovebox. That "nerve-racking test" existed before CCW, and it will exist after CCW. open carry notwithstanding, if a cop encounters someone in public he has no idea whether that person is armed, CCW permit or not.
What do you call someone who repeats the same thing over and over again ad nauseum while being proven wrong each and everytime? I'd call them a moron. As usual we will see that none of Mr. Kane's fearmongering comes true. It never does, and yet anti-gun bigots like Mr. Kane will never stop the fearmongering. Peddling fear and lies is all they have.
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I love when people who have no knowledge of guns, or gun laws tell me how difficult it is to defensively use a handgun.
Obviously he has never seen his local PD doing their range qualification test (which can be assumed for a large percentage covers the majority of range time any officer gets) or actually talked to anybody who's used a handgun defensively.
Oddly enough Caleb complained at how slow his draw stroke was when he fended off a knife wielding mugger
http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/26/dont-bring-a-knife-to-a-coffee-fight/
Robb Allen doesn't seem to claim he's some superman because he pulled a gun on a group of aggressive teens with plans to rob Robb (I think one of them had a knife).
And of course in all the stories I've read of guns deployed for self defense I've only read of one or two where the gun was indeed taken away from the victim.
Read more than a few where the gun was taken away from an attacker.
That's easily remedied as all cases the gun was deployed as a scare tactic not as a weapon.
Simple, don't want your gun taken away leave it in the holster until you're prepared to use it. If you attacker doesn't IMMEDIATELY change their behavior use your damn gun!
Gee, if I only knew that using a rifle to defend myself against a Home Invasion would cause so much pain and anguish for the Burglar, why, I would have let him beat me to pulp! Thank God that the 2nd Precient Police Station Cops took 12 minutes to walk the 7 minute stroll from their Front Door to My Front Door, so that they wouldn't have the Fear of Facing a Armed Homeowner Defending himself! Just think of all the Tax Payer Money that wasn't spent on Therapy because those cops didn't have to deal with the Trauma of a Non-Po Po with a gun!
Obviously the writer doesn't know CHLers or front line LEO's. The LEO's I know all tell me if someone they stop or encounter has a CHL that puts them a little at ease since it shows they have already been through a more thorough background check than is available on the street over the radio.
"Every cop goes into a traffic stop with a certain level of apprehension"
My cop buddy asked me once, "so, what percent of calls/traffic stops/etc I deal with involve a man with a gun?"
I started rambling off something about assuming there could always be a gun, and he cut me off. "100% he said. I always have a gun."
The only thing that article is missing is Markley's Law.
Wow Nancy, I just re-read the whole thing because I couldn't believe it.
I bet he had to hold back, sweating and trembling, with all his will not to talk about the Penises of men (and women) he has never met.
Maybe if Police Chief Edward Flynn would quit referring to the citizens he serves as civilians and creating an adversarial us vs them environment for his officers to work in the stops wouldn't be so nerve racking.
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