As an ex-cop I said it before: It’ll take the cops 5 or more minutes to get to crime scene—a lot longer in rural areas only exception is if a cop happens to be standing right at the moment and place where the crime is occurring. You figure the odds on that. CCW should be permitted everywhere if licensed. And as the economy worsens look for more violent crime.
I am certainly pro-cops, but of course, common sense tells you that they can’t be everywhere. I consider lawful, armed citizens as their posse.
Licensing is not needed. It is nothing more than a 'permitting' process. The right to defend one's self or others needs no permit, no license, in that it would become a priviledge the state may take away.
Politics aside, this story has ruined my week. I just got up and stood in my boys room for a minute while they slept, and said a prayer for daughter in Maryland. I was going to come back in here and put on Supertramp and forget it, but I was drawn back to the story. A prayer for the cops and witnesses, too-they will have those images in their heads for life..