I'm curious as to how many have a CCW permit?
I've never had one, and don't intend to get one. For one thing, In Kentucky, it's a donation of $150 to an approved shooting course and another $150 to the Sheriff. About $300 total expense to do what the 2nd Amendment gives me the right to do to start with. I just wonder how loud people would gripe If they had to take a course and pay a tax to vote? I think we tried that once in our history and it didn't last.
IMO, the only thing a CCW permit does is give the government a bunch of data to put in their database for whatever reason, and forces otherwise law abiding citizens to pay to exercise a right they already have guaranteed to them by the constitution.
A thug is not going to care if he/she has a permit or not. If said thug chooses to pack, they'll pack law or no law. I don't see why anyone would worry about the rest of us sticking a pistol in the glove box or pants pocket?
You know, the truth is, if I had my druthers, I'd not have to worry about packing a pistol, BUT, the Criminal Justice System (COURT) has not done it's job for the last 30 years in this country and as a result, the good people are being forced to live with career thugs among us. These 2 thugs that held up the drug store across the street from my office last week weren't first time offenders. Their rap sheet is more like a rap book. Their buts should be in jail working on a chain gang daylight till dark 7 days a week. Instead, they are out on parole sticking guns in the face of a man and his wife who are trying to run a pharmacy.
Each week, the local paper publishes the court cases. There are about 40 to 50 names in the paper each week that are in court for theft, dope, DUI, bad checks, and whatever else. I'd about bet that if you started listing them on January the 1st each week for a year at the end of the year, you'd find you only had 200 different names for 52 weeks. There should never be some goon convicted 36 different times for whatever crime. 1 time is a mistake. 2 times is a wake up, 3 is it. I actually had a theft loss on a vehicle once where the guy that stole it had been convicted 3 times of being a persistent Felony Offender. I thought that meant they threw away the key on him. Evidently not. Apparantly he doesn't even report to a parole officer because nobody can find him to charge him with stealing the car we paid for that he drove to the courthouse to appear for his 3 page indictment that included Dope, Fleeing and Evading, Damaging County Property, Assaulting Police Officers, No insurance, DUI, Destruction of Private Property, and no Seat Belt. They fined him $1500 and he drove off in the stolen car. His rap book is about 24 pages long.
Skipper
I've never had one, and don't intend to get one. For one thing, In Kentucky, it's a donation of $150 to an approved shooting course and another $150 to the Sheriff. About $300 total expense to do what the 2nd Amendment gives me the right to do to start with. I just wonder how loud people would gripe If they had to take a course and pay a tax to vote? I think we tried that once in our history and it didn't last.
IMO, the only thing a CCW permit does is give the government a bunch of data to put in their database for whatever reason, and forces otherwise law abiding citizens to pay to exercise a right they already have guaranteed to them by the constitution.
A thug is not going to care if he/she has a permit or not. If said thug chooses to pack, they'll pack law or no law. I don't see why anyone would worry about the rest of us sticking a pistol in the glove box or pants pocket?
You know, the truth is, if I had my druthers, I'd not have to worry about packing a pistol, BUT, the Criminal Justice System (COURT) has not done it's job for the last 30 years in this country and as a result, the good people are being forced to live with career thugs among us. These 2 thugs that held up the drug store across the street from my office last week weren't first time offenders. Their rap sheet is more like a rap book. Their buts should be in jail working on a chain gang daylight till dark 7 days a week. Instead, they are out on parole sticking guns in the face of a man and his wife who are trying to run a pharmacy.
Each week, the local paper publishes the court cases. There are about 40 to 50 names in the paper each week that are in court for theft, dope, DUI, bad checks, and whatever else. I'd about bet that if you started listing them on January the 1st each week for a year at the end of the year, you'd find you only had 200 different names for 52 weeks. There should never be some goon convicted 36 different times for whatever crime. 1 time is a mistake. 2 times is a wake up, 3 is it. I actually had a theft loss on a vehicle once where the guy that stole it had been convicted 3 times of being a persistent Felony Offender. I thought that meant they threw away the key on him. Evidently not. Apparantly he doesn't even report to a parole officer because nobody can find him to charge him with stealing the car we paid for that he drove to the courthouse to appear for his 3 page indictment that included Dope, Fleeing and Evading, Damaging County Property, Assaulting Police Officers, No insurance, DUI, Destruction of Private Property, and no Seat Belt. They fined him $1500 and he drove off in the stolen car. His rap book is about 24 pages long.
Skipper