Friday, February 27, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Capitol Cowards: Guns OK on Playgrounds But Not at Legislature
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:37 AM
Long ago, a senator tried to amend a gun bill to let people take weaponry into the Capitol. Suddenly, the Senate's many Second Amendment champions decided that actually (ahem) the government can restrict gun rights under certain extremely limited circumstances, namely when a politician's own safety is at stake.
Pith asked one of the House gun nuts, Rep. Henry Fincher, a Democrat from Cookeville, whether he'd favor opening the Capitol to gunmen.
"I personally, as a handgun carry permit holder and certified handgun carry permit instructor, don't have a problem with people bringing them up there," Fincher said. "Some of my colleagues might. That'd be a good debate. We license people to carry all over our society now. ... I feel like handgun permit holders are very responsible, are trained in both the use of firearms and the laws of self-defense, and I don't fear a law-abiding citizen who chooses to carry a handgun for personal protection. I fear the law-breakers who use them to take advantage of citizens, to rob citizens and to kill 'em."
Why then hasn't someone introduced a bill to allow guns into Legislative Plaza? we asked. "I'd urge you to contact your legislator," Fincher replied.
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"I personally, as a handgun carry permit holder and certified handgun carry permit instructor, don't have a problem with people bringing them up there"
Sooo, what does he do when he gets to work, so to speak? DO they have a gun check at 6th and Union for all of them heat packin' politicians? Or are they doing what likely every other CCW person does - bring it everywhere....
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"I feel like handgun permit holders are very responsible, are trained in both the use of firearms and the laws of self-defense"
Except when they are not.
For Alferd P. and others, a discussion of concealed carry, with examples since last June of permit-holders doing crime and other dangerous things:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/barack-obama-i-am-not-in_b_170033.html
Doug Pennington
BradyCampaign.org
We don't need law abiding citizens carrying gun s at playgrounds. No one important enough to protect there! :rolleyes:
I just want to ask all you gun opponents what YOU would do in the event that somebody was trying to, let's say, break into your house.
Pick up a telephone?
And call who?
People with guns, that's who you call! Unfortunately for you guys, most violent acts are committed well within the response time of most police departments, so by the time they get there, all they can typically do is write up a report about how you have been stabbed, strangled, raped, kidnapped, or shot.
It is baffling to those of us with common sense that every legally-qualified individual in the state does not avail himself of the legal opportunity to responsibly protect himself.
Even more baffling to us is when we see biased articles written by biased individuals that denounce and demonize law-abiding citizens that have decided to do what they can to take "crime victim" off their resume.
We don't need law abiding citizens carrying gun s at playgrounds. No one important enough to protect there! :rolleyes:
Hey, give the kids their own guns, let them protect themselves.
"I just want to ask all you gun opponents what YOU would do in the event that somebody was trying to, let's say, break into your house. "
It doesn't have anything to do with your house. You can have have enough guns in your house to start WWIII if that's your wish. This has to do with where you can carry guns outside YOUR house and into OUR parks and OUR playgrounds and OUR public buildings and OUR restaurants.
