Category: Concealed Carry

The Bad Hands People

There are no places evil can’t go. Limited, though, are your choices to stand up against evil and stop it. Ideas are being discussed everywhere about how to protect our schools. The insurance companies have threatened to drop school coverage on schools that protect children and staff by exercising the right to self-defense with a firearm. [More]

Which insurance companies? Name names.

Are they the only ones, or the only ones the schools are doing business with? What about state rules saying if you want to do business here you can’t discriminate?

We’re the Only Ones Pro-Gun Enough

From an email conversation I was having about cops, oaths, and pensions with Hershchel:

I had a similar experience with a “pro gun cop” who claimed to support 2A that I had been corresponding with a while back–

I asked him – since he knew who I was and knew I would not do anything criminal with it – if asked if I let him know I was peaceably carrying concealed and did not have a permit because it is my right to bear arms, would he arrest me?

After hemming and hawing and excuse making, I finally got him to admit he would “have to” enforce the law.

I recall writing this up on the old blog– perhaps even having the conversation in comments under a post — but it’s been years and I don’t have time to try and find it, assuming I even could…

Solving the ‘Red Book’ Problem

Rather than grousing about the cost of red books, the correct solution is to seek legislative redress from the General Assembly by allocating funding for the program. [More]

Me, I’d just get rid of permits.

But you need them for reciprocity to carry in other states?

Like I said, I’d just get rid of permits.

Name and Shame

The South Carolina State Senate is in the second week of debate regarding a bill that would allow handguns to be carried openly in the state. House bill 3594, known as “Constitutional Carry,” is supported by most Republicans in the General Assembly… [More]

What’s to debate?

And why “most” instead of “all”?

Who are the @$$holes?

[Via Jess]

Dodge City!!!

After Media-Brutalized Gun Freedom Law, Violent Crime Drops In Florida [More]

Just like Ohio.

Didn’t help this poor guy, though.

I see Forbes was one of the guilty DSM parties.

I remember when Steve was trying to con gun owners into thinking he was a pal. NRA, of course, fell for it, but they’ve covered their tracks by deleting their video “Steve Forbes – a New President to Put Forward a PositiveProgram.”

[Via Edmund M]

Bermuda, Bahama, Come on Pretty Mama

United States residents traveling to the Bahamas should exercise “extreme caution” in Nassau in the wake of 18 murders since Jan. 1, the State Department said in a new travel advisory. “Murders have occurred in all hours including in broad daylight on the streets,” according to a security alert that was posted on Jan. 24 by the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. [More]

And here’s a shocker:

Bahamas law does not permit the carrying of concealed weapons.

Neither does the cruise ship that gets you there.

The New Black Codes

Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry… As the bill is currently written, local and state law enforcement officers are not exempt from the insurance requirement. [More]

There is no new thing under the sun.

Democrats wold rather see you dead than armed.

And an ignorant constituency that will be most infringed on by this will continue to vote for Terri Hill in droves.

[Via Jess]

CO Democrats Expanding Predator Empowerment Zones

Draft bill puts numerous places off limits to concealed carry; Democrats test limits of ‘sensitive spaces’ [More]

Proponents know only the “law-abiding” will obey, which makes them evil accomplices to every act of violence that will occur that could have been repelled.

[Via cydl]

Blind Pig Finds Acorn

Now, even Californians who have submitted to extensive background checks and participated in hours of training can’t legally carry their firearms without running afoul of the list of banned places — which, let’s be honest, are just about everywhere. [More]

So…Kismet: How do you vote?

And lest you think hell has frozen over and the LA Times has done an about-face on guns, read the last pararaph.

[Via Lawrence P]

We’re the Only Ones Schooling Enough

West Virginia Senate OKs bill to allow veterans, retired police to provide armed security in schools [More]

It’s still way too “Only Oneish” for me. Character and judgment don’t change just because you cross an artificial prioerty line, and killers won’t care anyway.

I suppose you could argue it’s an incremental improvement, but when we saw cops get nationwide carry recogniton with LEOSA, how many made inviting those of us footing the bill to sit at their table a priority?

[Via Jess]

More Guns, Less Crime

Data posted at the Gun Violence Archive website shows 2023 produced fewer homicides, suicides, and gun-related injuries than in 2022, which indicates expansion of permitless carry laws, allowing more people to carry firearms for personal protection, did not result in more bloodshed as anti-gunners predicted. [More]

Someone ought to write a book with that title…

Correlation/Causation?

Did Loosening Gun Control Cause A Nationwide Drop In Homicides? [More]

I’m not sure this factors into predator decisions on whether a person looks like a victim or not. Let’s be careful with claims. Just because the other side does it doesn’t mean they won’t point and scream when “our side” does…

For now I’ll take “they didn’t go up.”

File this under “Further Study Justified.”

[Via bondmen]

Trouble in Paradise

Kill it by doing nothing…

I wonder if a deliberate indifference lawsuit would work…

[Via Jess]

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