***SOME OF THE RESULTS OF WEAKENED CONCEALED WEAPONS LAWS
-- A Georgia woman was arrested after pointing her concealed handgun at another mother during an argument over their eleven- year-old daughter's basketball game at school;
-- A Michigan man was arrested for threatening to shoot two other men with his concealed handgun during a dispute over clearing trash off his property;
-- A Virginia man was arrested for carrying a concealed handgun into an elementary school, where it was left in an unattended backpack in the classroom until a teacher noticed it;
-- An Alabama man accidentally shot himself and a bystander in a movie theater showing "102 Dalmatians," when the concealed handgun fell out of his pocket;
-- A Pennsylvania man shot and killed a neighbor with a concealed handgun during an argument over where to dump snow that was being shoveled off the property.
http://www.usnewswire.com/ ***
WOW, 5 people. And how many people were saved during that same time by people carrying LEGAL handguns?
Yup, a very peaceful Friday night in most urban areas. Saving folk, that's the government's job.
The 102 Dalmations guy, I can't believe no one posted that.
Actually only 3 people were shot in 2 incidents. The others were examples of bad judgement, but there were no injuries.
I remember thw newspaper acounts of the Pennsylvania incident. The way it happened is that two guys got into an argument over a parking place & shoveling snow into it. They both had permits. The one who got shot threatened the other one with his pistol. The shooter was justified in shooting back.
There will be lots of news stories about criminals (who don't have a permit) who were caught with a concealed weapon (to imply that having a concealed weapon permit will turn one into a criminal).
A "high capacity" magazine does not mean a whole lot. The current ban limits magazines to 10 rounds. One could carry a loaded gun and easily carry two or three spare magazines. The prohibitionists' goal is to eventually limit magazines to one or two rounds, which would make semi-autos impractical.
Wonderful hysteria about "easily concealable assault weapons with 100-round magazines!" A handgun magazine of 50 rounds is bound to misfeed a lot. There is nothing magical about a bulky Tec-9 with a 50-round magazine. That would be a jam-a-matic! It might hurt you if someone threw one at you. Anyone with a quality revolver or semi-auto is better armed. I wouldn't trade my Sig 220 for a room full of Tec-9s. A really good and inexpensive high-capacity handgun is the CZ-75, but that is just my preference. One should be able to find 15-round magazines for it and they won't jam.