Mikee Loxxer
Member
This letter appeared in the Lincoln Journal Star on December 8, 2006. How would my fellow High Roaders respond to such idiocy?
Print gun permit holders
It is my opinion, since it is required for some people convicted of a sex crime to register their residences, and they are printed in the local paper, that addresses of people who register for a permit to carry a handgun should be printed as well. Also, whether the permit was granted or denied, and if denied under what conditions, should be associated with the information.
I feel that citizens have the right to know who among us are permitted to be armed although the unpermitted will probably be of more concern in the long run.
I realize that there are thousands of guns in Nebraska (I only have one) that are used safely, legally and without incident — most of which, I would imagine, are used for sport. Those don’t concern me. The ones that are specifically designed and sold as personal protection, and those who purchase them, are the danger.
It is my opinion that everyone else who doesn’t want a permit to carry a handgun should have the right to know who does.
I will be much more concerned in the coming year about permitted handgun carriers than I ever have been of sex offenders harming me or any of my family.
Ben Kessler, Lincoln
Print gun permit holders
It is my opinion, since it is required for some people convicted of a sex crime to register their residences, and they are printed in the local paper, that addresses of people who register for a permit to carry a handgun should be printed as well. Also, whether the permit was granted or denied, and if denied under what conditions, should be associated with the information.
I feel that citizens have the right to know who among us are permitted to be armed although the unpermitted will probably be of more concern in the long run.
I realize that there are thousands of guns in Nebraska (I only have one) that are used safely, legally and without incident — most of which, I would imagine, are used for sport. Those don’t concern me. The ones that are specifically designed and sold as personal protection, and those who purchase them, are the danger.
It is my opinion that everyone else who doesn’t want a permit to carry a handgun should have the right to know who does.
I will be much more concerned in the coming year about permitted handgun carriers than I ever have been of sex offenders harming me or any of my family.
Ben Kessler, Lincoln