Posted on 10/06/2005 6:41:57 PM PDT by jdege
There is so much other drivel in this article that I would love to take to task - but I imagine I would be preaching to the choir.
Would like to ask her though, if she thinks she would know which bad guys are armed through her anti-privacy?
I can't help but laugh! Ask the "journalism major" how she feels about protecting source confidentiality and whether she's willing to give that up. Or that she can only print what the Ministry of Information tells her. Oh she'd HOWL about her precious First Amendment. The Second Amendment to her don't mean squat...
That was an excellent analysis of this woman's truly unfortunate psychological situation.
There is another thing that I find interesting...her completely irrational hoplophobia prevented her from ensuring that the firearm was indeed unloaded. She took the word of another person before nervously walking out to the truck. If she was that incapacitated by the presence of the sidearm, she should have asked another person to handle transport duties while she had a cup of herbal tea and telephoned her therapist.
Your categorization of Susan MacLaughlin as a neurotic sociopath is very accurate.
~ Blue Jays ~
OK, it's getting kinda late anyway, we're on eastern time. Probably MI will shake down in time, we're a recent shall issue state and most cops here just are not used to relativly large numbers of CCWs, and are not yet comfortable around holders
Does our military carry weapons to protect themselves? I thought it was to kill enemies.
My god, how does this girl bring herself to sit on the toilet knowing she could fall off and spill her brains on the tile floor of her bathroom.
***BOO***
There goes your shadow little girl.
Bump for later read.
If she can't carry a gone for one minute, should she really be allowed to operate an automobile?
Ermmmm... no one said you had to. And thanks for letting us know ahead of time!
That's why she should display a "No guns in this house" sticker prominently on her front door.
Well, that puts her in a little too much peril, doesn't it, glorgau? The law must read that she has to have a large lawn sign, too. Not to mention the lapel button and the forehead-tattoo. Get the message out there!
Ah ... one of life's little mysteries solved.
Here in Virginia we are not required to notify a police officer if we are carrying. If the interface with the officer involves a traffic stop, the information that you may be legally carrying will show up when they run your tags. Most of the time they are pretty cool about the whole thing and will let you off with a warning. Virginia is a pretty gun friendly state.
Perhaps she's just taken Gun Rule *1 to heart.
Despite what the National Rifle Association says, it is in fact guns, not people alone, that kill other people.
If officers don't know who has a gun or not, they will likely have to treat everyone as if they are carrying a dangerous weapon. And really, would you blame them?
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What an idiot. The line from NRA is guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Does this writer beleve that an under cover cop announces his two CCW weapons when they come in contact with a uniformed officer.
this guy is a lunny. Paranoid as they come.
Right. There is no such thing as an unloaded gun until you personally check everything everything. My point, I guess, is that far too many people think that the gun can kill you, when it's the idiot holding the gun who'll do the deed. A gun is not an act of nature.... ;-)
I agree that Police should have all the usefull information they can get, I just don't know why you think CCW status is useful info for the police to have.
If they see someone has a CCW are they (1) supposed to be more relaxed knowing it is a good guy they are dealing with, or (2) are they supposed to think "Oh no, I better watch out he might have a gun."
Only (1) is logical (statistically). Just trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you were not implying (2).
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