[jdege]

Why do gun-owning parents let their kids grow up to be hoplophobes?

[Tax-chick]

What a total dope!

[mwyounce]

If people are given the choice to conceal and carry weapons, the rest of us should be given the opportunity to have an informed choice on weather or not to associate with them.

MacLaughlin is a senior print journalism major and editorial editor of The Spectator

Good to know the editor of the newspaper doesn't know the difference between weather and whether....

[Americanwolfsbrother]

I don't like the idea of not knowing if Joe Schmo walking down the street is packing or not.

Stupid argument on the authors part. She doesn't know if Joe Schmo is carrying now. She assumes he isn't because there is no CCW law in Wisconsin, and that is a very stupid assumption. The only thing I will disagree with in the Wisconsin bill is not letting the police know. They have a right to protect themselves and should be able to tell if you have a CCW. The general public does not have that right.AWB

[flashbunny]

" MacLaughlin is a senior print journalism major"

Wow, impressive.

How about we force every woman who gets an abortion to register with the state and have her name made public?

Oh no, can't do that. A woman has a 'right' to an abortion somewhere in the bill of rights (keep looking, you'll find it).

However, the right that is clearly outlined in the 2nd amendment doesn't protect gun owners in the same way. See, it's one of those amendments those idiotic founding fathers wrote but didn't actually mean. Unlike the 'right to privacy' that gave us Roe V Wade, which isn't actually there, but the founding fathers meant for it to be there.

Phew, that's some damn twisted logic right there.

[Bogolyubski]

LOL! Hey Susan, ready for fitting that burhka yet? If not, you'd best get ready right quick 'cause you ain't nothin' but a dhimmi!

[Emmett McCarthy]

Miss MacLaughlin is a disgrace to her heritage.

Any grown adult who is a-freakin'-fraid to touch a gun doesn't deserve the right to vote, much less have a dumbass newpaper column.

[gondramB]

" I understand the Bill of Rights guarantees we all have the right to bear arms."


OK, even in a totally clueless person at least the correct reading of the 2nd amendment has penetrated.

[Dust in the Wind]

"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?"

They do already if they are doing their job.

[M203M4]

Does she need Huggies or Depends? I mean, it sounds like she filled up her pants over touching a gun that was INSIDE A CASE.

[axes_of_weezles]

Yes gun owners should have no privacy. /sarcasm
Nor aborters or abortion clinic owners
Or HIV Positive Gays.
Or Muslims
Or Doctors
Or Jouralists.
They all kill or get more people killed than law abiding gun owners.
What a scarlet letter hoplophobe.

[axes_of_weezles]

Yes gun owners should have no privacy. /sarcasm
Nor aborters or abortion clinic owners
Or HIV Positive Gays.
Or Muslims
Or Doctors
Or Jouralists.
They all kill or get more people killed than law abiding gun owners.
What a scarlet letter hoplophobe.

[AlaskaErik]

This woman obviously has mental issues totally unrelated to firearms. She is certifiably bonkers.

[Panzerlied]

"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?"

Susan, Susan, Susan. Were you born stupid my dear or have you taken lessons? Any police officer that DOESN"T treat everyone as if they were carrying a dangerous weapon WOULD HAVE TO BE DUMBER THAN YOU!

[Phsstpok]

I don't know why she was so scared. She's already brain dead.

[nralife]

"The current piece of legislation makes me nervous. I don't like the idea of not knowing if Joe Schmo walking down the street is packing or not.

What's worse... "



Get a clue. Those with criminal intent not knowing who might be "carrying" is what these laws are all about. It's called deterrence without ever firing a shot.

[Nephi]

I don't like the idea of not knowing if Joe Schmo walking down the street is packing or not.

This is why concealed carry benefits even the non-packing - criminals don't know who is carrying and who isn't.

What's worse is that in its current form, the legislation states this vital information about who is carrying a concealed weapon should be kept totally private - even from law enforcement.

This would mean that in situations like routine traffic stops, officers would not be able to check to see if the vehicle's owner had a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

She jumps to the illogical conclusion that someone who has qualified for concealed carry would consider blowing away a cop during a traffic stop.

[English Nationalist]

If someone holds the power to surprise me and take my life in a matter of seconds, I deserve the right to at least know they have that power.

I demand everyone with a functioning pair of hands registers with the police, they could surprise me and break my neck. I'd also like to ban the concealed carrying of glass bottles in shopping bags.

[glorgau]

When we're talking about something as serious as guns - which can take a life in an instant - a free flow of information is imperative.

That's why she should display a "No guns in this house" sticker prominently on here front door.

[justrepublican]

A Smoking Gun owner would send her in to hysteria.

[epow]

If someone holds the power to surprise me and take my life in a matter of seconds, I deserve the right to at least know they have that power.

How can any grown woman who can read and write be that stupid? Doesn't she realize think that the only people who will "surprise me and take my life" are carrying guns NOW without a permit, and that neither she, the cops, nor anyone else knows who they are?

Only a harebrained liberal would think that a criminal won't break a law against carrying concealed guns. He's a criminal precisely because HE BREAKS LAWS. Maybe she thinks he will say something to himself like "It sure would be fun to rob and kill that woman over there, but it's against the law for me to carry a gun so I guess I'll just go home and bake cookies instead."