Citizens for Disarmed Victims -

Citizens for Disarmed Victims - The "Repeal Concealed Carry" "movement" is taking one mighty swing at relevance.

They'll be staffing a booth at the State Fair this year. I plan on stopping by and going through their literature, point by point. By point.

Hmmm.

Attacking the "information" on the Citizens for a Supine Safer Minnesota website is sort of like clubbing baby harp seals. Here's a bit from their site:

CONCEAL AND CARRY DIDN'T PROTECT HIM

New York City Councilmember James Davis, who was shot and killed inside City Council Chambers on July 23, 2003 was a former police officer and was armed at the time of the attack. He and the shooter, Othniel Askey, bypassed the metal detector located at the building entrance. The shooting occured at one of the most heavily protected sites in the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg now requires everyone, including city council members, to pass through the metal detectors.

Ironically, Mr. Davis was killed just as he was about to introduce a resolution to prevent workplace violence.

So according to Citizens for a Supine Safer Minnesota - if granting permits to the law-abiding citizen doesn't instantly end all crime and prevent every wackjob from commtting every crime of passion or insanity, then Concealed Carry is worthless?

Also note: you can pelt opponents of Shall Issue with dozens of real-life cases of people deterring crimes, with or without shootings, and it won't matter to them; let one NYC cop get shot by a wackjob (never mentioned in the excerpt in the CSM website) and suddenly the threshold of proof drops to one case.

You can smell the desperation.

The tide continues to swing against them, by the way. The one defeat that "Shall Issue" laws have suffered in recent years - its rejection in Missouri in 2000, followed by a veto of a bill in the Legislature - may soon be reversed:

The Missouri legislature is poised to soon override the veto of Gov. Bob Holden, a Democrat, and validate a bill passed this spring allowing the right to carry concealed weapons.

Colorado will also join the ranks of shall-issue states before long, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently overturned a ban on concealed weapons of any type - which may lead to a shall-issue effort in the coming session.

Clearly, the national trend is very much against the Repeal gang.

By the way, it's funny to notice that the Repeal Concealed Carry NOW! website hasn't been updated since sometime in May.

That's dedication.

Posted by Mitch at August 20, 2003 10:35 AM