Battle for CCW in WI is under attack! (fortunately, not brilliantly so)

[Trip20]

I come back to work from my usual lunch, and today there is a copy of City Pages, a weekly publication with local news and arts coverage.

I usually use this thing when we run out of toilet paper at work, but today, it was laying on my chair folded open to the below commentary by some jack... er uh, guy named Bill Berry. I have no idea who he is. I'm assuming just some local occasional commentary/opinion contributer to this... "publication".

Now I realize this is a nothing paper, in a smaller metropolis, but reading his blathering still boiled my blood. I'm tempted to write back, as people often do, and hope that an alternative opinion will be published. I'm also hoping that, if you have time, you can help me pick this Mr. Berry apart, piece by piece.

There website is so rinky dink they do not keep electonric copies of articles and such, so I scanned it instead. Here's the article, enjoy :

Read the above images down each column first, as this is the ending:

 

[azredhawk44]

The big point I would make is:

Currently, criminals carry weapons in a concealed manner. They "know" that a person with no visible weapon is an easy mark.

CCW laws protect many of us in society, even though very few actually may choose to carry a weapon.

Given the assumption that more Republicans own firearms than Democrats, a thief/burglar/rapist cannot tell by looking at your home from the outside whether you are a Democrat or Republican (and therefore whether or not a gun is in the house). But, since Republicans exist and own guns, the bad guy has to consider that a gun may be in the home. And there is no way to tell, for him.

The same thing applies to personal defense.

A person doesn't carry a visible sign saying "CCW" stamped on their foreheads. But, in AZ, criminals are very hesitant to attack people who may or may not have weapons. This is because you can't tell who has a weapon.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve to encourage rather than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

-Thomas Jefferson