Like Son Like Father - Dad's two cents

My son responded to his Uncle Vic’s (my brother) comments on “carry permits”.  He was being kind in not really pressing the issue but I cannot leave it where he did.  Vic said that “Concealed carry laws are good for only two groups of people--the gun industry and criminals. They make life more dangerous for everyone else.”  That is typical left wing blabber which means liberals are far more capable of thinking for us than we are of thinking for ourselves.

Let me give you just a few examples that happened within the last 30 days to give the lie to his diatribe.

                                                                                                                                                                                   

1.  “Strolling along on his evening walk, a man with a concealed-carry permit was approached from behind by a robber who thrust a gun in his back and demanded money.  He handed over his wallet, and as t he robber was distracted, he drew a .40-cal. Semi-automatic pistol from its holster.  The suspect pointed his gun at him, so the man opened fire, killing the suspect.  Police said the suspect may have fired a shot during a robbery the previous week and may have been prepared to shoot again.  “When we found [the dead suspect], he was laying on the ground with the gun in his hands and his finger on the trigger,” said Hazelwood Police Chief Carl Wolf. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, 05/06/10).

2.  With her husband working the night shift, a woman was home alone one evening when she heard noises upstairs.  Fearing the worst, she got her handgun before investigating.  A second floor wind was shattered and a man was waving a flashlight around in the bedroom.  “He yelled something at her,” said Calhoun County, Ala. Sheriff Larry Anmerson.  “She wasn’t sure what it meant and she was scared.”  The woman shot the intruder several times, killing him.  (The Anniston Star, Anniston, AL.  05/19/10). 

                                                                                                                  

3.  Police say four known gang members burst into an Arizona store that sells car alarms and stereos and announced a robbery.  The gang members began ransacking the store and forced an employee into a back office at gunpoint.  That’s when the store’s owner emerged onto the scene and opened fire with a shotgun.  One gang member was killed and two were wounded.  The store owner, whose forearm was slightly injured by return fire, held the three surviving suspects for police.  (Associated Press, 05/12/10).

There are many, many more stories I can recite to point out that an armed citizen who knows what he/she is doing saves their lives as well as others with them.  I have always noticed that when people try to talk against guns and gun permits, they never bother to note that in every case where gun permits are allowed, crime decreases.  A few years ago in a town in one of the Carolinas, the people voted to make it mandatory for homeowners to own guns.  When the criminal element found out that this became law, they moved their business elsewhere and crime decreased drastically because the criminals knew that they might be facing a gun no matter where they broke into.

I will make that point that if you are going to purchase a gun, then you need to take the proper training in order to use it most effectively.  Get a gun and learn how to use it, because you never know when it can save your life or the lives of ones you love.