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Article #2362Re: "Concealed Carry" laws STOP SHOOTING SPREES!
From: Tom Huffman
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:00
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The one aspect of this that has to be recognized is
that conceled carry permits aren't valid in certain places,
including schools. This is why Kip Kinkel was successful
in his shooting spree in Eugene, OR (my home state, where
CCW is "shall issue").
Were CCW holders allowed to carry on school grounds,
Kip would be dead (or at least stopped quickly) and there
would only be a few victims; possibly none, if someone saw
him coming in the door and confronted him.
Yeah, I agree that airlines aren't a good place for
CCW; people get too frightened in cases of bad turbulence.
But other places, such as schools, need the protection of
CCW holders.
And those who think this will only increase violence,
haven't absorbed the concept that CCW holders have a much
lower crime rate than the general public, and are *much*
more accurate than the police. They're also at the place
of the crime *WHEN IT HAPPENS*, not 5 or 10 minutes later.
IMHO,
toemoss
This is my opinion, not Hewlett-Packard's
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,d5c1ef4f8b2fc850 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 1044e7,d5c1ef4f8b2fc850 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044e7,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,d5c1ef4f8b2fc850 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: ffe14,d5c1ef4f8b2fc850 X-Google-Attributes: gidffe14,public From: toemoss@cv.hp.com (Tom Huffman) Subject: Re: "Concealed Carry" laws STOP SHOOTING SPREES! Date: 1999/08/26 Message-ID: <7q21di$f33$1@hpcvnews.cv.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 517244515 References: <7q1ll8$e7p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Followup-To: la.general,ca.general,alt.activism,talk.politics.guns X-Complaints-To: usenet@hpcvnews.cv.hp.com X-Trace: hpcvnews.cv.hp.com 935626994 15459 15.7.208.95 (26 Aug 1999 00:23:14 GMT) Organization: Hewlett Packard Corvallis Site NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Aug 1999 00:23:14 GMT Newsgroups: la.general,ca.general,alt.activism,talk.politics.guns