"good character, competency and integrity"
Rules out those with a criminal record. Rules out the mentally challenged and the underage. Rules out suspected terrorists.
All legal words of art.
Boilerplate for those getting everything from a license to practice law to a license to cut hair.
Then that's what a candidate has to say. Criminal record, insane (I've occasionally posted on the lunacy of revoking gun rights for people who enter drug/alcohol rehab).
Illinois bars concealed carry. Chicago bars handguns. Through the art of legislation, law sounds too legal, alderman can not only own handguns, but carry them concealed. Something to do with upholding peace.
Two shockers.
I'm told concealed carry permits are difficult to obtain in San Francisco. But when there's a need, along with good character, competency and integrity, of all people to carry a concealed weapon.
"Because less than twenty years ago I was the target of a terrorist group...I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms...I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me."
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Not certain, but I believe she's referencing the Harvey Milk act of terrorism.
Barbara Boxer has a concealed carry permit. I believe her husband was hospitalized in a "bad" neighborhood once. She needed it and kept it.
Needless to say, I don't have the "good character, competency and integrity" of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein or a Chicago alderman.
Rudy has some explaining to do on this and other social issues to get my support. Though i admit it may not matter. Leadership skills, he's the best in the field thus far.
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
-- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)