Concealed carry not the answer [to retired Treasury Agent]

The Southtown Daily's Letters to the Editor ^ | Thursday, January 10, 2002 | Joseph A. De Leon, a retired U.S. Treasury agent

[hollywood]

"Law enforcement is for the trained and motivated."

It is that point that I'm somewhat turning around on the author. I know that those who carry do it for protection. My point was: we're all members of society, so why should we rely solely on LEOs to provide law enforcement when we all know a crime when we see one usually. More toward your argument, let's all be allowed to register with the "Police Reserve" programs and become deputized. Isn't that the essence of a society anyway? Everyone is one the same page regarding how we behave in our society?

[Trident/Delta]

Your rather off the wall comment r.e. "I just love gun-nuts" taken in the context that you offered it.

Semper Fi

[dasboot]

Hmmmmm, I'm not sure you understand, or I conveyed effectively, the context of that comment. I will say that I qualify myself as a gun nut. I also build things, and would qualify myself as a tool nut. I enjoy sailing, and would say that I am a boat nut. There was no disrespect intended by the use of the term; I wasn't being in the least sarcastic in my remarks in that or my following post. Perhaps I should clarify what may have been a confusing statement: I like the fact that citizens are serious about arming themselves and providing for the greater protection of innocent life; I like the fact that non-cops--often at the scene of a cluster first--may act to protect mine. I like the fact that my family enjoys the protection of folks who would have first the moral uprightness, then the means of self-protection necessary, to intervene on behalf of the innocent in defense against mean bad guys.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I said: "Wow we agree on something"

_Jim Said: One of those street-perps in Muskegon, Michigan robbed, then was preparing to rape one of my aged aunts IN HER OWN HOME -

- she laid him out with three shots from the .357 her late husband used to carry as a bailiff.

A firearm *is* the greatest equalizer ..."

I had a gang banger point a Glock at my head at about 15 feet away, he was about to kill me for sure. I lifted my weapon and unloaded my gun on him. Only hit him twice though it was dark using a .380 cult (small gun impossable to aim at night)(he lived). All for nodding, 'hi' to his friend as he walked past my home.
Was the scariest night of my life.