Posted on 03/02/2010 3:56:10 AM PST by marktwain
Courtesy of Oleg Volk
Not that long ago, many citizens choosing to carry defensive arms were forced to do so illegally at their own peril. Gun control ran rampant in this country as a result of liberal viewpoints run amok in the sixties and seventies. As a result of the gun control experiment, crime ran rampant and the citizenry was easy pickings for the criminals who had no qualms about breaking the law to be armed.
In the eighties, that all began to turn around thanks to the efforts of thousands of gun rights activists all across the country. The direct result was that concealed carry laws began to pass in state after state, many of them "shall issue" laws requiring that citizens willing to jump through the legal hoops to get a carry permit be issued one regardless of what any local bureaucrat's opinion on armed citizens might be.
Ohio joined that group of states in 2004 and today only two states still completely ban concealed carry. Six years later and now approximately 200,000 Ohioans have been issued a concealed handgun license (CHL). A recent annual report from the Ohio Attorney General reveals that 2009 was a record breaking year for Ohio with 56,691 CHLs issued, beating the previous record of 45,497 the first year of the program.
There are many reasons why citizens of all states, not just Ohio, are turning out in droves to claim their Constitutionally guaranteed right to self-defense. The last year or so has been the perfect storm of conditions that brought us to where we are today.
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So, I was mainstream before mainstream was mainstream.
I am still extremely afraid of what could be coming at us over the remainder of the Obama administration. They are anti gun and when they get done screwing around everything else they will turn their attention to guns.
Obama and the Democrats will not make a major move against guns because of two reasons. The first, and most obvious reason is that it would be extremely unpopular. The second reason, and less obvious, is because Obama and the Democrats know that most American’s would willingly lay down their guns and seek satisfaction in the courts.
most American’s would willingly lay
I’m assuming you meant would not....
It was one of the main reasons I left SoCal for the freer state of Florida.
Not many muggings or break-ins in my neck of the woods...
Q: How do you control 300 million armed people?
A: You don’t. You reduce the numbers and disarm them.
Look for these solutions to start to be implemented.
Civil rights now mainstream? It demonstrates, like the Tea Party, that people can have an influence if they come together and act.
No what I was saying is that my faith in Americans to hold their ground, when push comes to shove, is little. Maybe that is too harsh; perhaps I was suggesting that Americans have faith in the judicial system.
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