So some talking head in Chicago thinks that people in West Virginia don’t know how to handle guns?Seriously?
I sort of agree with this. I see far too many idiots that have little to no safety training. I was drilled early on about firearms safety, at the time I thought it was over the top, but now I see the wisdom in my fathers lectures...
Same old, tired, worn out demagoguery. Blood in the streets, gunfights over parking spaces and fender benders, ad nauseum.
Armed private citizens, trained or not, are less dangerous than armed criminals with no opposition.
Not nearly as dangerous as walking in parts of D.C., Chicago, New York, Detroit, L.A., etc. without one...
whether one agrees with mandatory training or not, common sense says training and range time are key.
Toting a stupid president without a brain is worse...and we still have a few months left worring about that cretin.
More “blood in the streets” rhetoric that’s not supported by any facts. Several states have enacted permitless concealed carry and haven’t had these problems. Apparently the newspaper feels that Chicago residents aren’t as smart as those from other areas.
Part of the article talks about a study of 77 people in Montgomery County Maryland in a simulator and the armed citizen is killed by a carjacker or armed robber.
What this doesn’t tell/show is that the other party (the perp) is trained and knows they are not going to die because it is a simulator. Most criminals have never had a victim pull a gun on them, are not trained and generally don’t want to die.
Though not the ideal situation to not have significant training, is being an unarmed victim better?
I saw an FBI report several years ago about first shot hit rate of thugs compared to cops.
Thugs hit rate was above 75%, cop rate was under 30%.
Wonder who does thug gun training, they should be the ones conducting firearms training.
Bloomburg and his toads wasted a LOT of money here. It didn’t work.
A) The Chicago Sun Times can suck it.
B) These antigun pieces convince no one and only increase the pro-freedom resolve.
C) The Chicago Sun Times can suck it.
D) Michael Bloomberg (as close to being a James Bond villain as you can be without being George Soros) can suck it.
E) The Chicago Sun Times can suck it.
Garbage. No stats to back this up. Barring the very rare exception, concealed carriers are overwhelmingly safe and law-abiding whether they have a permission slip from the government or not. Besides, driver’s ed and licensing doesn’t prevent ~50K annual motor vehicle deaths.
Uh, the “United States Concealed Carry Association” sells insurance to concealed carry license holders. I “think” they may just have an ax to grind monetarily here.
Training is always a good thing but is not and must not be a prerequesite to keeping and bearing arms. Personally, I would institute mandatory firearms training in all K through 12 schools in the U.S. along with mandatory instruction on the Constitution, but not as a requirement to own or carry a gun.
yep...most of the thugs in Chicago have no firearms training, which is WHY we need to be packing, to defend ourselves.
Seeing how trained police officers can make mistakes..... is a logic fallacy known as a straw man.
The VAST majority of law enforcement officers have very little training annually and often only have to qualify vs paper targets.
Just look at the complete carnage in Vermont, Arizona, Alaska, Texas,...
Notice how “hidden” is a dog-whistle word to bias the reader. What, do we think the Sun Times would be in favor of open carry? No, they just stick the word “hidden” in there to load their article with emotion.