Posted on 02/22/2005 6:11:45 AM PST by Rakkasan1
There was one factual error in my column last week about Matthew Dirks, the Iraq veteran who was denied a concealed carry permit. He needs a state armed guard license, which has requirements above and beyond the simple carry permit.
In my defense, everyone I spoke to confirmed that Dirks needed a "carry permit." I apologize for the error, but it in no way diminishes my point, which was: If an Army combat veteran, trained to use a variety of weapons, can't have a carry permit, who can?
St. Paul Police spokesman Paul Schnell called to answer that question. He said Chief John Harrington was merely being consistent in only issuing work-related permits. In other words, the chief believes that the ability to defend yourself is a work requirement, not an inalienable right, as the Founders believed.
Schnell also noted that the chief liked it much better when the Minnesota Personal Protection Act was in force. He said it took the guesswork out of the process.
I also received several e-mails, mostly from the (nowhere near) Million Moms, chastising me for the column and alleging bias. Of course I'm biased; I'm an editorial columnist. That should be clear even to the Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, the group that thinks no one — not even Matthew Dirks — should have a gun.
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IMO In this society nowadays being in the military *is* a need to defend yourself because of a work requirement anyway.
Pathetic. No one who has a permit through the reformed law knows if when or where they can carry. We got a letter from the sherrif saying essentially "since no one knows what the **** is going on, just don't carry."
Oh, yeah, THAT is a solution. /sarcasm
Every respectable citizen needs a carry permit.
...and guarding other's money is more important than one's own life.I thought libs should be opposed to such BS
Wrong. NO "respectable citizen" should need a permit of any sort to carry a weapon of any type, whether concealed or openly.
Why can't a person take a safety course and use a card issues by the course instructors as his carry permit? Certified instructors could be given access to criminal databases to make sure the person being trained has no felony record.
MPPA ping.
In Virginia, they take a safety course unless they were military and can produce a DD 214, take the certificate to the court, who does the bg check, and if all is well, within 45 days, a permit SHALL-BE issued.
Four of them in Duluth.
Though if the turnout at their last State Capitol rally is indication, their numbers are in decline.
(It really sucks when only one station sends out a camera crew to cover an event and the media still outnumbers your supporters.)
Roger that ~ The 2nd Amendment says nothing about a concealed carry permit!
BTW ~ I do have one, though. :):)
What part of "the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" don't those fools understand!
Ideally, being a respectable citizen would constitute a carry permit in itself.
Yes......yes it would.
Agree. Any honest person of normal intelligence understands the unalienable right to self defense. Therefore, we need to question the motives of those who want to remove our ability to defend ourselves. There is an excellent documentary produced by JPFO.com called INNOCENTS BETRAYED which explores and answers the question. Tyrants love gun control.
Got it in one! The SINGLE question you need to ask any politician is what his or her position is regarding the Second Amendment and the RKBA. The answer will tell you all you really need to know about that politicians REAL position on individual liberty.
The only thing I ever agreed with "Mousey Tongue" on was his reputed statement that "political power comes from the barrel of a gun". Therefore, since our nation's founding was on the premise that POWER flows from the PEOPLE to the government, it stands that the PEOPLE should have guns. I think that is exactly what the Founders intended.
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