More Anti-Gun Knee Jerk Rhetoric

it erodes the comfort level if residents can only assume everyone on the block might be armed.
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Funny, it increases MY comfort level. What about ME? What about MY feelings? :D

In fact, there are no documented trends that owners of concealed weapons permits are being singled out and harassed.
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Nor are there any documented trends that owners of concealed weapons permits are a danger to you or you kids. Get a Life.
Rich
 
There may be no evidence (so far...) in Florida of permit-holder's names and addresses being used as a "shopping list" by criminals looking to steal guns, either; but Canada's seen it happen.

Conflating the release of the names of private citizens licensed to engage in a Constitutionally-protected activity with "government openness and accountability" is a wild leap of illogic. The underlying thought is that government should tuck us all safe in our beds and watch over each of us while we sleep. (There's a name for a place where it does just that: prison). While the Times is wishing, how about a list of felons and felons-to-be carrying weapons without a permit, too? They're the ones who present the greatest risk to others. Nationwide, persons with gun permits are less likely to commit crimes involving weapons than the general population.

Having not got "streets running red with blood" as predicted for each step in Florida's recognition of the basic human right of self-defense, some editorialists are determined to find reason for panic anyway. If the very wealthy are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, then editorial writers are born with a burr under their saddle. Or possibly even closer to their hearts.
 
If a person has gone out of his way to get a CHL/CCW permit that shows that 99.9% of them have stepped up to another level of responsibility. You find out in class all the responsibilities a CCW holder has. The penalties also tends to be harsher if you have a CCW and violate the law. So its not something that 99.9 percent of us would take lightly and we tend to be more responsible gun owners not out of legal concerns, but the fact that its the right thing to do. I wonder if this guy would sleep better if a crackhouse was next to him and the persons inside illegally owned guns? That way his theory would be validated.
 
You'd think that "professional journalists" would understand the difficulty of proving a negative. "Publicly releasing the names of CCW holders does no harm." Prove it. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Can we also get a database of every "source" used in their newspaper articles? After all, there's no evidence that said sources are being actively targeted by criminals.

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They want to keep track of us the same way they do sex offenders. :barf: :barf: :barf: I wonder if this columnist also feels that people with HIV/AIDS should be on a publically available list. Bet not.
 
I would like to see the journalist name published. If you want everyone to know that I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights and give them my address then I want everyone to know that you exercise your 1st amendment rights and give them your address.
 
I wonder if this columnist also feels that people with HIV/AIDS should be on a publically available list. Bet not.

Excellent point, Dan. I believe it's fair to assume that the general population of HIV/AIDS carriers in this Country pose a greater threat to the well being of the nation's health than the population of CCP holders. And we well know the same editorial writers would be frothing at the mouth with outrage were a proposal put forth to publicly list the names of HIV/AIDS infected people. As I said, they are hypocrisy personified.
 
so what's next? Public records on where you work, fav foods, color, what you drive? You can prevent your name from getting in the phonebook, giving a small amount of privacy, .. I like my privacy! It seems the media just has to dramatize every portion of the publics lives. The bird flu:rolleyes: ought to keep them busy for awhile, but they'll be back to the evil weapons owners soon.
I live in the country, and I'm pretty sure everyone is armed out here and I'm just fine with that.
 
Write to them

There is a spot on their site where you can e-mail the editor. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Odds are, they won't print any rational response to their editorial, but you never know.
 
Re CCW holders list being made public

Hi
Can you say "burglar shopping list". Many with CCWs have several guns and usually leave some at home when out. Kudos on Florida for passing this law.:cool:
 
Wait, where's the beloved sacred RIGHT OF PRIVACY that the Supreme Court had overlooked all those years and just recently discovered hiding out in the penumbra that the Left thunders about when discussing abortion, hiring homosexuals as teachers, sex offender registries or who has HIV???:confused:
 
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