Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:21:40 -0700
From: Tavares@ALUM.MIT.EDU ("C. D. Tavares")
Subject: Re: CCW safer than COPS?
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
At 8:40 AM -0700 4/9/01, you wrote:
> Last year two CCW permittees were charged
> with murder. I do not know if the case has come to trial yet, or if it
> was
> plea bargained. It was rather prominent on the broadcast news. It was a
> planned first degree homicide with a two person conspiracy.
Which suggests to me that concealed carry had damn litle to do with it, if
anything.
Many times when the banners print summaries of all the CCW license holders
who have committed crimes, they include non-gun crimes, and malum
prohibitum crimes (like carrying your gun into the local Outback Steak
House).
But, more insidiously, they also include gun crimes that did not require or
even involve a concealed firearm.
If some CCW licensee gets involved in a situation and makes a bad shoot
with a gun he was carrying, that's one thing. If some CCW licensee pacs
his hunting rifle in a case, climbs up a school tower, and starts picking
off pedestrians, that says squat about whether CCW is "good" or "bad."
--
Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA!
Hey, I could have robbed a 7-Eleven, and what? Get shot in the back? No, I know
from America's Most Wanted that tellers don't carry weapons... They're supposed
to give you the money and get you out of the bank.
--TODD MITCHELL, BANK ROBBER