Posted on 04/14/2015 11:22:39 PM PDT by kingattax
Mike Miller knows his way around guns.
So the training course required to get a concealed-carry permit in Kansas seemed to him, at first anyway, like a time-wasting technicality.
A box to check off on a form.
But that cocky skepticism vanished during an eight-hour class that dwelled far less on shooting skills than on the weighty legalities and liabilities that come with firing a deadly weapon.
Questions like: When does justifiable homicide cross the line to murder? What are the legal limits of self-defense?
“It’s a giant responsibility,” said Miller, a publicist at the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. “That’s probably the biggest thing these folks are going to miss.”
The folks of whom he speaks are Kansans who might not bother getting that training once a new law takes effect this summer.
As of July 1, no training will be required for someone choosing to holster a hidden gun or shove one into a purse or backpack.
After that date, concealed-gun permits will be strictly voluntary in Kansas.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
I will never get over the number of people who assume that because people have a choice they will exercise that choice. Worse that they will make the wrong one. The expressed blind need for government oversight in your choice to exercise your rights because they are dangerous is an example of liberal indoctrination.
It’s no wonder Obama voters exist and that so many “conservatives in name only” fail to go to the polls.
If you care enough to exercise your rights, be it speech, voting or carrying a gun, then you have an obligation to know that those rights are dangerous. That is why they were expressly protected in the Constitution. They are not free and come with responsibility.
Yet alleged ‘republicans’ like Strauss in Texas apparently thinks Texans are far too violent for the state to simply live with the Constitution.
Have you ever heard of prosecutorial discretion? Have you ever seen an anti-gun police chief?
‘Lawful’ gun users can be trusted with this God-given right.
I am trying to say that a prosecutor or police force can abuse their anti-gun stance to make life miserable for a citizen who kills lawfully.
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