Posted on 03/29/2012 9:52:48 PM PDT by Junior_G
Nobody likes to be wrong, especially when it comes to gun laws.
In a recent column lamenting the accidental shootings of three children two of them fatal I noted that one of the guns was owned by someone with a state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon. Surely, I said, he had received some safety training before being issued a permit to carry right?
Wrong.
Getting a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Washington state is as easy as buying a new set of tires. There's a bit of paperwork, and you may have to sit for a spell while they make sure your record is clean. But you can be out and packing in less than an hour. You don't even have to know how to shoot your own gun. Just get on out there!
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
No amount of training can remove all risk of accidents. Look at the medical profession. Doctors have years of training, and medical mistakes account for more deaths annually than firearms accidents, both in absolute numbers and normalized rate of incidence.
Statistically, going to the doctor is more dangerous than owning a firearm.
No amount of training can remove all risk of accidents. Look at the medical profession. Doctors have years of training, and medical mistakes account for more deaths annually than firearms accidents, both in absolute numbers and normalized rate of incidence.
Statistically, going to the doctor is more dangerous than owning a firearm.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have the right bear arms after completing a safety training course.
...or writing an inane column...
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