Perhaps the single-most idiotic statement EVER opposing CCW

[Janitor]

If my wacko neighbor has CCW, or carries a gun, I'd like to think he met minimum standards.

Whose minimum standards would you require they meet? Yours? How about mine? Maybe somebody like Sarah Brady should come up with them?

Personaly, I think the requirement should be that we meet the minimum standards talked about in the Constitution.

 

[zealot]

I think CCW's and CHL's are just pure BS. I wish we could all just go back to the original intent of the 2nd Amendment and go to Vermont and Alaska style carry. If you want a gun in your pocket for protection, just go get one. No need to ask the Master's, "May I?"

 

[garyk/nm]

Ezekiel,
Do you have a large sign on the outside of your house advertising the fact that there are guns inside? If not, please go put one up immediately. Then get back to us in a week and let us know how it went.

 

[Gatman]

While we're at it, I'd like a list of single women.
No real reason. I'd just like to know.

I fixed it so I could add a +1.

 

[orionengnr]

um, yeah...

and if I haven't said it recently, God Bless Texas.

It was specifically spelled out in the CHL legislation that no-one has access to the list. No Brady-ites, no "news": papers.

Texas DPS, I am sure, has all of the applications, and knows how many have been approved. But the Dallas Morning "News" does not.

God Blessed Texas, and some of her lawmakers, with (un)common sense..

Maybe some of them actually read and understand the Constitution

 

[CleverNickname]

It was specifically spelled out in the CHL legislation that no-one has access to the list. No Brady-ites, no "news": papers.

Unless I'm mistaken, it's still possible to find out if a specific person has a CHL by writing the DPS and giving the person's name and ZIP code, and pay a small fee. Then the DPS will give a yes/no answer, but they'll also notify the CHL holder who inquired about their CHL status. There was a bill to eliminate this method of inquiry in the last session of the TX legislature, but I don't believe it passed.

 

[Ezekiel]

Do you have a large sign on the outside of your house advertising the fact that there are guns inside?

"No."

But I also wouldn't think it the endtime were my name to be published in a local paper.

"Zealots bitch for no reason other then they're zealots."

 

[tyme]

“You can’t say that when you take 200 guns off the street that you saved 200 lives, but we know that every gun represents a potential homicide or assault,” said acting Police Chief Cedric Alexander. “So it’s not unreasonable to believe that if you take more guns off the street, violent crime is going to go down.”

It certainly is unreasonable. Unless the "crime gun" pool in a city is on the order of 200 guns, a decrease of 200 guns isn't going to matter much... even if those 200 were all eliminated at once, which they're not. One or two guns confiscated each day is going to have no impact on the overall crime rate, because there are plenty of spare guns floating around on the black market. If supply shrinks enough, there's plenty of time for the black market to find a source for more guns.

 

[Art Eatman]

Ezekiel, lemme put it this way: There is a lot of stuff that I may have a right to know, but I don't necessarily have a need to know. Some stuff just isn't my danged business. It's not a matter of any legal right to privacy; it's the moral thing of "Mind your own (bleep) business, and stay out of mine." Hank Williams sang about that over a half-century back, but it still holds true today.

When a state issues a CHL, it means that the recipient did not flunk the Good Guy Test. Therefore the state has assured itself that there is no public danger from the recipient. It follows from that fact that it's nobody else's business about you or me having or not having a CHL. An honest person's knowledge or lack of knowledge about a CHL does not in any way affect his safety.

I wear a seatbelt against an untoward event of relatively small likelihood. Refraining from publicizing people's CHLs is also a protection against an untoward event of small liklihood: Burglary.

But common sense just ain't real common in Modern America.

, Art

 

[Scottmkiv]

I think a CCW license is like a Poll Tax. You are licensing, and requiring someone to pay for, a right. This would be like the News papers taking it a step farther and publishing names and addresses of people that paid the poll tax.