I ran across a couple of posts from Rob Reed of the Michigan Firearms Examiner, ostensibly aimed at new Concealed Carry Permit holders. I would recommend them for people of all levels of experience – for the new permit holder as a check of your intent and understanding of the purpose and techniques of concealed carry, and for the more experienced holder as a check that you are still following good practice. I found them very useful.
As soon as I felt your gun I should have took two steps back, pulled my Glock 40 and just put 10 bullets in your ass and let you drop. And I wouldn’t have lost any sleep.
Canton, Ohio Patrolman Daniel Harless
Daniel Harless, whose embarrassing and inexcusable treatment of motorist and concealed carry license holder William Bartlett during an incident in the early morning hours of June 8, 2010, has finally been fired as the result of the investigation by his department.
There’s not really a whole lot I can add to this story. The whole thing was caught on the police dashboard camera, and the Ohioans for Concealed Carry (OFCC) made sure it was posted on Youtube.
The judge hearing Bartlett’s case eventually through out all charges against him. Harless’s hearing was then delayed several times because of the stress Harless was undergoing, caused in no small part, no doubt, by the publication of videos of other incidents he was involved in.
Here is the dash camera footage, with commentary by the OFCC. I should note that the video contains some language that Harless uses that may be shocking to some.
Video (c) 2011 Ohioans for Concealed Carry
Kudos to the OFCC for their work on this!
I’ve had a license to carry a concealed firearm for about 18 years, in all three states I’ve lived in during that time. I haven’t always exercised that option.
But, as I’ve related before, I now carry a gun nearly everywhere I’ve been legally allowed. My reasons for changing are fairly straightforward – it’s my right to do so, and I would rather be carrying a gun and not need it, than need an gun and not have one.
Succinctly, as Tom Givens said once in a training session, we carry a gun because sometimes we may run into someone who needs shooting.
There have been times when my family has noticed that I’m carrying, either because someone hugs my waist (not so much any more), or because some other situation arises. For instance, the other day, we were out running some errands, and by virtue of poor planning, we needed to go to the Post Office in the middle of it all. So, I had to disarm discreetly.
There were times when this kind of action on my part would draw some comments from my wife or kids. But, I’ve noticed that in the past few months, they have come to accept this, and the comments have stopped, for the most part.
So, this phase of my evil plan is succeeding. My family is accepting everyday carry as the norm.
Soon, it will be time to move them toward carrying themselves.
Stay tuned.
My daughter is a third year student at Georgia Tech. In the past year, I can’t count how many robberies have been reported on campus. There was even a rape of a student on campus right before a football game.
As the new legislative session approaches, the time has come to fight to change Georgia law to allow licensed Georgia Weapons License holders to exercise their right to carry concealed on campus.
It won’t be an easy task. Georgia Tech has a stated policy from 2010 advocating leaving the law where it is. But the arguments they list in this policy, as well as the statistics they quote, are taken right from the Brady Campaign, and they are easily refuted.
Here is the heart of the issue: when people hear that we want to allow concealed carry in campus, they immediately assume we want to allow every college student to carry a gun.
But the law guiding concealed carry on Georgia, and in every state that allows it, limits licenses to those 21 years or older. So, students younger than 21 would not be allowed to carry in any case.
In fact, the majority of those who would be eligible to carry concealed on campus would not be students at all, but faculty and staff? How many of them would be carrying guns? Who knows?
A criminal, like the one who shot up the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, doesn’t care about the law. They are are going to break the law in any case, either by robbing someone at gunpoint, or by shooting someone. What does breaking one more law matter to them?
It turns out that the main deterrent to an armed attack on campus, as it is anywhere, is the unknown. The criminal, who doesn’t care about breaking gun laws in the commission of other crimes, does care about being shot in the commission of that crime. And since they don’t know which of their intended victims or bystanders might be able and willing to fight back, they choose not to attempt the crime at all.
Please join me in supporting Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and Georgia Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
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