Posted on 07/26/2012 8:48:13 AM PDT by marktwain
In the aftermath of the Colorado movie theater shootings, I'm not going to argue about concealed carry gun laws anymore.
We've been through all that here in Wisconsin.
Like many workplaces, the building where I work in this concealed carry state has a sign on the entrance informing folks that no weapons are allowed inside. Some gun advocates think that's part of the problem.
After all, folks like the orange-haired suspect in Aurora can read, too.
Concealed carry became a buzz phrase on my social message sites after some learned Colorado actually does have a concealed carry law that allows residents to exercise their Second Amendment right in a limited manner.
It's so limited the entire town of Aurora - along with other Colorado towns and cities with "gun-free zones" - doesn't permit anyone to carry a concealed weapon legally even though it's the law in other parts of the state.
That means the answer to one of the most asked questions after the Aurora shootings became a moot point: "Why didn't someone with a concealed weapon just take the guy out?"
The answer: They would have been breaking the law. (OK, I'll admit that does sound a bit wrongheaded.)
Proponents of concealed carry laws always use the example of random encounters with nefarious criminals as their main justification for why the public should be allowed to pack heat.
Given the bedlam in the Aurora theater - a tear gas cloud and a masked gunman with multiple weapons spraying bullets - it seems highly unlikely a regular citizen could have disrupted the killer's plot. My guess is the only ones who believe they actually could have stopped the guy are probably influenced by too much television or Hollywood.
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Exactly, and several citizens hitting his spineless, chickensh!t a$$ would probably have made him crap his britches and start crying.
Lives could have been saved. I'll never believe otherwise.
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