Posted on 05/08/2007 10:07:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s not often that I agree with Rick Perry or Ann Coulter. In fact, this is the first time.
Commenting on the slaughter at Virginia Tech, Nasty Ann said:
“Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder — concealed-carry laws. A comprehensive study of all public, multiple shootings in America between 1977 and 1999 . . . found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect . . . reducing multiple-shooting attacks by nearly 60 percent.
“How did that deranged loner get a gun into a Gun-Free Zone? By the way, the other major Gun-Free Zone in America is the post office.”
Conservative columnist Michael Reagan bolstered Coulter in a recent column when he said the death toll at VT “could have been substantially lower if it were not for an absurd law that kept the students and faculty from exercising their Constitutional right to protect themselves and others by bearing arms on campus.”
According to John Terry — a defense attorney and former prosecutor who hosts a popular morning call-in talkshow on KGNC-AM in Amarillo — random shooting deaths are down significantly in Texas, following enactment of the state’s concealed-carry statute in October 1991.
The Legislature enacted the law in the wake of the Luby’s Cafeteria shooting in Killeen that claimed 24 lives in a 15-minute spree by a mental case who had no friends or girlfriends and didn’t have a very good relationship with his mother. How many others are roaming around out there suffering from similar feelings of rejection, paranoia or persecution?
At the time of the shooting, a woman whose parents died in the fusillade of bullets said she had a gun in her car. Had she had it in her purse, she was quoted as saying things might have been different.
Last week, Republican Gov. Perry said Texans licensed to carry concealed handguns should be allowed to do so anywhere, any time. As it stands, they’re banned in hospitals, workplaces, liquor stores, schools, churches, airports and any number of other places. Perry even wants to allow them in bars, which is carrying things a bit too far.
Anyone interested in obtaining a concealed-carry permit can look in the yellow pages under “Guns.”
Basic requirements for a concealed-carry permit include no felony convictions, a 10- to 14-hour training program, written exam, “live-fire” practice at a firing range and a $140 application fee to the Department of Public Safety. Permits are good for four years. A renewal permit lasts five years. Fees are half-price for senior citizens.
•Meanwhile, didja ever notice that one anagram to Britney Spears’ name spells Presbyterians, as noted by Phil Proctor in the May issue of Funny Times.
•Trying to imagine the White House’s non-involvement in the firing of those eight federal prosecutors is like trying to imagine non-space.
•Question of Alberto Gonzales: If you can’t recall remembering, how can you remember not recalling?
•“My mother used to say there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum-security twilight home in Australia.” — Dame Edna Everage, a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries.
•Veterans returning from Iraq are dismayed at the apparent lack of concern about the war by the bulk of the American public. There’s an easy way to change that: Reinstate the draft.
•Speaking of Iraq, a cartoon can often sum up in an instant what it might take a thousand words to say. Case in point, the cover of that same issue of Funny Times depicting two protesters carrying signs. One says, “Stop the war now.” The other reads, “Stop the war eventually.”
•From the the Web: Texas’ new motto: “Se Habla Ingles.”
(Richard Orr is a Herald correspondent. Contact him at royko@sptc.net)
Well, at least Stinky Richard is.
The facts are the facts. Cho and hijackers go to the easy targets. Where everyone is disarmed, it’s open season.
A lot of people do not have the brain power to understand it. Thankfully it seems more and more are accepting the truth.
Unfortunately, not here in California. Only ex-law enforcement and battered wives with a court order can get one. The 2nd Amendment does not apply here. I called Ahnold’s office to ask for his action on this issue and his staffer told me CCWs were available in CA. Yeah, right. “Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies.” Thanks RINO from Oesterreich.
Nasty Ann? Sorry Dick, we love her here!
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Question of Alberto Gonzales: If you can’t recall remembering, how can you remember not recalling?
Good question for any of the Clintons.
In NC, to get a CCW also requires a check by the mental health department to ensure that you’re no nutso.
I don’t understand the logic behind the bar prohibition, which we also have here in Florida. Most people who go in a bar are not stinking drunks who are there to start fights. If you want to go in there and have a beer and meet a friend, so what?
Further, bars are literally covered with very nasty weapons that could hospitalize pretty much anyone if they are used. Yet all the bar fights I’ve ever seen were pushing and shoving matches with maybe one or two punches thrown in the last twenty years. Once I was in a bar when someone picked up a beer bottle and hit someone else with it. Once in twenty years.
And if I want to have a beer at the bar while I’m waiting for my table at the Olive Garden, I’d be committing a crime.
You haven't been to the right bars! :)
So who is Dick Orr?
And why should he care whether or not the White House was involved in firing the “federal prosecutors”?
There are numerous factual errors in this piece:
First, concealed carry wasn’t signed into law in 1991; that was the “Ma Richards” regime, and she stoutly refused to sign, one of the reasons that George W. Bush was elected to replace her after only one term.
He signed it into law.
Second, concealed carry is NOT prohibited in churches in Texas, though, individual churches can ban it if they choose to; mine, formerly Episcopal, does not ban it.
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At my best friend’s Pentecostal church in Mesquite , the USHERS are armed to protect the congregation, ministers and offering money. He tells me this is more common than one might think.
That surviving woman is Suzanna Gratia Hupp, who went on to become a Representative (District 54, 1997-2007) in the Texas State Legislature. Had she taken her gun in with her(and faced possible charges and loss of her practise), she could have saved many lives.
Given a second chance who wouldn't violate some useless law to save lives?
Hospitals - Only if a 30.06 is posted.
Workplaces - Only if a 30.06 is posted or one has signed a contract with their employer.
Liquor stores - Only if a 30.06 is posted.
Schools - Inside, yes; in the parking lot, no.
Churches - Only if a 30.06 is posted.
Airports - Only in secured areas.
Any number of other places - Only if a 30.06 is posted.
Bars - Yes.
Federal property - Yes.
One also has to pay for the classes over and above the fee to the State.
This guy is an idiot.
Lousy gas mileage though.
Typical anti-CCW response. The REAL answer is to let'em carry in bars, too, and make'em take a breathalyzer test if some incident happens. If they have a blood alcohol level greater than that already written into law that would prevent them from driving a car, give'em a stiff fine and take away their guns temporarily.
On an earlier post a Right to Carry Map was posted. The following map is more specific (NRA). Maybe someone can picture it for us on the FR.
http://www.nraila.org/images/rtcmaplg.jpg
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