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Posted on 09/15/2005 3:28:06 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy
"What we need to do... Is there any media? Chief, can I say this?," asked Mayor Bobby Bright at Tuesday's Kiwanis Club of Montgomery meeting.
"I've said it one time. Get a gun and teach our folks how to use them and shoot 'em."
Several members of the audience, approximately 100 members of the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, broke out into nervous laughter and applause after Mayor Bright said this as the guest speaker.
To put this in context, Mayor Bright spoke directly to the issues of having an understaffed police force, clogged courts, and a vast majority of crime in Montgomery committed by the same relatively small number of people over and over again.
Bright went on to say,"There's going to be people out there who write me and say, 'God, Mayor, why are you doing this?' Listen to what I'm saying. Get your gun, learn how to shoot it, learn how to use it and use it. "
We asked the Montgomery Police Department what it thought of Mayor Bright's statements.
Spokesman Lt. Huey Thornton says, "The mayor made some good points. If a person chooses to own a handgun, then we think it is important that they know how to use that handgun and they know when the law allows them to use it."
Bright adds, "That's the only thing that we can really tell our folks to do at this point in time. If there's anything else that you know that the chief and i can do to keep this crime down, keep these guys from stealing... let me know."
Montgomery Police Chief Art Baylor is a Kiwanis Club member himself and was in attendance at Tuesday's meeting at the RSA Activity Center. WSFA 12 News tried several times to speak with Mayor Bright on camera, but he was unavailable for comment.
For people who do own a gun, or thinking about buying one, the city of Montgomery does offer a firearms safety course free of charge. You can call the police academy at (334) 240-4812 to sign up.
Oh wow. Umm.....Ok.
I checked your profile, why to I think that you are being 'ironical'???
I'll give Bobby Dim credit for some common sense on this one. Of course, crime has skyrocketed under his watch, and people are leaving Montgomery in droves. I don't feel safe in Montgomery, even in the neighborhood where I grew up. Baseball teams and new building projects(which conveniently benefit the mayor's friends)are good, but when people don't feel safe going out in public, then the mayor is not doing his job.
I thought you voted vagitarian last time.....now I'm sure.......:o)
Yep.....Ole Eaker is a good guy !
Excellent!
Sorry about that, Chief!
Statistics show that 99.347% of criminals just *hate* getting shot.
You are too kind. I was just being a horse's ass to my buddies.
; < )
Check out the link below for more pics of FReepers.
BTW, keep an eye on my evil twin brother Squantos.
He's the kind of guy who would fight a rattlesnake and give the snake a two-bite head start.
In other words, he is either pretty tough or he ain't too bright!
Wow!
When I got my CCW license here in Texas the course was taught by 2 county deputy sheriffs free of charge. Some municipalities actually get it.
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3853936&nav=0RdDeYjP
well said!
This ranks with the Attorney General of South Carolina ordering all prosecutors not to go after residents who shoot home invaders, adding "It is now open season on home invaders." Home invasions in SC plummetted. I wonder why?
There was a similar sort of thing some years ago, with a lot of rapes in Orlando. There was a big program to teach women how to shoot and get CCWs, and the rapes plummeted.
Nice username, BTW. I quote from Hayek just about every time I get called a "Nazi" by Lefties, to show them that Nazis are much, much closer to the Communists, and thus the Left, than they are to conservatives. It really enrages them.
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