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How's This For Anti-Gun Bias?

An editorial today in the Wausau Daily Herald (WI) says this:

Happy new year! Have a gun!

That's the Wisconsin Legislature's gift to citizens of this state. Members hope this will be the year they can ram through a bill that would allow residents to carry hidden pistols, stun guns and other weapons.

Gov. Jim Doyle has said he will veto the bill, as he did the last attempt to pass this reckless and dangerous law. This time, though, the Republican majority says it has lured enough Democrats with last-minute amendments that they can override a veto.

Heaven help us.

Well actually, allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons is a far more reliable means of self-defense than relying on someone in Heaven to come to your aid, such as when:

MILWAUKEE - A 50-year-old Milwaukee man was dragged from a car he was driving and severely beaten Monday night by a group of at least 15 teens and young men after he honked at them to get out of the street they were blocking.

Witnesses said the suspects jumped off cars and did flips onto the man's head, laughed and blasted music as if they were having a "block party."

The victim, identified by family as Samuel McClain, suffered "severe head trauma" and was in critical condition late Tuesday at Froedtert Lutheran Memorial Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wis., a hospital spokesman said. His family was gathered at Froedtert, awaiting word on McClain's fate. It was unclear whether he will survive.

While there's no guarantee that if McClain had been armed he could have scared off the mutants, I'm sure he'd have had a better chance than appealing to Heaven. It's obvious there were no cops around to protect him from the savages. Yet the Wausau Daily Herald would deny him the protection that a concealed carry gun could have afforded.

Then, after admitting that applicants for a CCW permit would be required to be sober when carrying, pass firearms training, and not carry in bars, school zones or other government buildings, the un-named editorial writer asks:

So here's the question: If permit-holders are safe and reliable enough to be handed permits, why aren't they safe everywhere? Why can they not go into the federal courthouse in Madison, but they can wander into the Wausau Center mall or through the heart of downtown?...

Of course the question was rhetorical and they have their own answer but I'm thinking, "Good question!" I believe that if someone has demonstrated that they are law-abiding then they should be allowed to carry anywhere. Again, since the cops can't be everywhere, and neither can Heaven, I say, "Let them carry their gun every place they go!"

But that's just me...

Posted by Jeff Soyer at January 2, 2006 06:40 AM