Posted on 08/22/2013 8:50:31 AM PDT by marktwain
Michigan's prosecuting attorneys association led the push against changing the law in 2001. Today, Ionia County Prosecutor Ronald Schafer, president of the group, says it's hard to remember what the fuss was about.Sometimes, it takes a dose of reality to change a persons mind. From thedetroitnews.com:
Former mayoral candidate Lisa Howze is recovering from an apparent break-in while she was inside her home on a day she made a controversial political decision.
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The first patrol car arrived in about 20 minutes, she said. And then another showed up and, finally, an investigative team.
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“The officer told me it’s time to get my CPL license,” Howze said. “I had resisted for a long time, saying, no, I’m not getting a gun, I’m not getting a gun. Now I’m not resisting.”
"I think that when you begin to bring weapons into those types of areas, into schools and churches, I think it kind of takes away from the purpose of those buildings."
Now a police officer has advised her to obtain her own concealed pistol license, after she suffered from a home invasion by hiding under her bed with her cell phone as protection. It has been the final straw to a change in attitude. Perhaps she will rethink the advisability of having numerous areas where she is forbidden from being legally armed.
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It is a good point. I think it is a characteristic of the left. They are also a little puzzled when it does not work, but always come up with an excuse... because, in their view, the government does not so wrong...
You should take the opportunity to reach out to her and ask if she’d learned anything.
According to THIS FR article, Minnesota went Shall Issue about 10 years ago. While my Letters are brilliant and incisive (cough), I don't archive them and the reporter's name is long gone, but yeah, it would be nice to ask her.
An interesting insight to the prevailing mindset there is a quote from the above article:
Some 217 Washington County residents are getting an extra message with their new permit to carry a handgun in public.
Beneath the stamped name of Sheriff James J. Frank are the words "sub recuso," Latin for "under protest."
He's not sheriff now. Hope it's because of his attitude.
The police chief in the town where I live hosts a concealed carry class quarterly that is free for residents. He’s a good joe.
Amazing the difference in attitudes between sheriffs and police chiefs. Both are politicians, but sheriffs generally have far more territory to patrol with far fewer resources.
The engineer geek in me believes there’s a pretty clear inflection point at which the decline in an agency’s ability to patrol a region and their change in this policy sort of happen.
You are seeing this in Michigan, big time, but its happening in other places. Crime rate is an election issue, and as sheriffs come up for election, they do what they have to in order to keep the rate down.
My daughter asked why you never hear about crime in rural communities, and was it a lack of press. I told her it was because every building you can see has AT LEAST one gun in it, and probably more than that.
Made more sense to her. She’s a shooter. Asked my liberal wife if she could buy a ruger 9mm. My wife flipped out on me about it. Completely indoctrinated by her parents (dad’s a former ed union president). Lately, burglars are treating our neighborhood like an ATM machine.
She hasn’t told me to unload the shotgun yet. I wish I had a pistol though.
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