Posted on 11/23/2005 1:30:56 PM PST by jdege
By ADAM A. MEYERS Racine, Wis.
I am a police officer with the Racine Police Department and a part-time police officer for another community in Racine County. This is strictly my opinion and I am not speaking on behalf of the communities or law enforcement agencies that employ me.
The Wisconsin law against carrying a concealed firearm has worked effectively for over 130 years. Deciding to pass a concealed carry law in Wisconsin that will allow almost every adult to carry a concealed firearm is a potentially dangerous decision.
Carrying a concealed firearm and deciding to shoot another human being is different from what is perceived on television, in the movies or while playing a video game. Allowing Wisconsin residents to carry concealed firearms may not reduce crime. If anything, crime may increase and there will be, without a doubt, more firearms in our homes and on our streets.
I strongly support the ability for people to defend themselves, but I don’t believe that carrying a concealed firearm is the only way to accomplish this. There are a lot of responsibilities that come with carrying a concealed firearm and being able to effectively use it against someone in their self-defense or in the defense of another human being.
I agree that retired law enforcement professionals should be permitted to carry a concealed firearm as long as they follow state and federal laws and those policies presented to them by their former law enforcement agencies.
I believe that there is no credible evidence that carrying a concealed firearm reduces crime and that passing a concealed carry law in Wisconsin will do more harm than good.
Trust us, Adam.... we're grownups. And the criminals don't wait for permission.
-Allowing Wisconsin residents to carry concealed firearms may not reduce crime. If anything, crime may increase...-
In other words, he doesn't know. In other words, if nothing significant has happened elsewhere, he figures Wisconsonites are too irrantional to handle it either way. In other words, he doesn't give a rip about constitutional rights.
This is someone who doesn't trust the average citizen. A quick fact check of the number of crimes committed by concealed weapon permit holders and the number of crimes they have stopped should be enough reason for him to stfu. But why let facts get in the way of being a demonrat in favor of banning guns?
Sorry Homes...no such thing.
I believe that there is no credible evidence that carrying a concealed firearm reduces crime...
Is it just me or does anyone else think that "Officer Adam" doesn't have a lot of years experience under his belt as a police officer? Freshly out of the academy, maybe?
Either that or he's got his eyes on the career ladder and has taken on the liberal higher up's views, since his nose has been so close to certain of their sphincters.
Just sounds like a young, gung-ho cowboy who has no life other than two police jobs.
Why do I get the impression that he will either 1) be on the wrong end of an IA investigation for "over eagerness" or 2) take every officer's exam and try to quickly climb the dept's ladder. Like a typical liberal, he "feels" and "believes" but doesn't have any facts or research to back up those feelings and beliefs.
Guess he needs a bit more time on the streets rather than as an officer making departmental decisions based upon his "feelings".
Good Luck, Racine!
The cheeze-head cop should stick to cow tipping and yelling, "how bout dem packers, eh!"
Another example of the "new breed" of brain-washed law enforcement officer who is most likely a product of a Wisconsin government school.
Why doesen't this officer focus his enforcement on the gang infested areas of Racine instead of honest taxpaying citizens.
".7.62 NATO(.308) in the mini 14 is a much better choice"
Huh? I'm sure you meant M14, right?
The bobbies in England do not carry weapons. At least that I remember. Might have changed recently.
I am suprised too.
Bumper sticker I saw a while back: "If we can't have guns can we use swords????????"
My bad , said mini 14 when I should have said M-14 or M-1.
Well I do prefer an exposed sidearm...
It really doesn't matter to me, but the libs really panic when they see you with one.
Yes, here in Charlotte's center city, a couple of occurences of young black men carrying in the open sent the police to the city council asking for new laws.
Then again maybe it was wishfull thinking on my part for a Mini-14 in 7.62 nato.
Because the honest taxpaying citizens are far less likely to kill him?
I carry exposed while hiking, concealed while shopping. Open carry in shopping areas and restaurants alarms some people. What they don't know doesn't alarm them.
"Allowing Wisconsin residents tocarry concealed firearmsexercise their constitutional rights may not reduce crime."
I took the liberty of correcting the author's typo.
You'd be amazed at how many of these idiots I've come across in my 31 yr. career in LE. They are sort of like a Democrat voting/supporting "veteran", watch 'em closely. They'd take away your lawfully owned firearms in a heartbeat I assure you.
There is a push here in Charlotte, NC by our city guvmint to outlaw carrying guns in plain sight. Too many folks decided this fool concealed weapon permit is a pain in the rear end and started carrying exposed.
To address the LEO from Wisconsin. First off, I am quite sure that the Liberal Newspaper quoted him and his view point while they ignored many more letters containing the opposite viewpoint from other officers. They do this because his view supports their agenda.
The vast majority of street officers support the rights of Citizens to Keep and Bear Arms. They do this because they realize that the police cannot be everywhere, and the criminals fear an armed citizen more than anything else.
Concealed Carry Laws do in fact reduce crime. In the age of terrorism, they can be a national security provision (kinda hard for a terrorist to shoot up a shopping mall if they are going to be getting lead slung back their way.)
At the same time, I can't help but wonder why so much hatred and invective posting comes from supposed conservative message boards for the Police. Many of the same stuff that can be read on hard-core anarchist webboards can be seen spewing from the mouths of supposed Conservatives on many of the boards on the web. (IE: Jackboots, Pigs, Fascists, Elitist, Ect...)
While perhaps much of the opposition to police on conservative boards comes from pseudo-conservative libertarians (who by default usually are very Anti-LEO), there are others who are simply mislead into thinking that the Police are out to get them and restrict their freedom.
The Police are not the enemy, as I said above, the vast majority of the Street Officers support the RKBA, for that matter, most Street Officers also tend to be very Conservative on most political issues.
Focus on the real enemies, those being the ACLU/Communist/Liberal types who also hate the Police and who want to restrict your freedom and RKBA.
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