Cold dead fingers, etc.
The Tribune's editorial page tore into Utah's concealed weapon permit system again with the news that the Bureau of Criminal Identification finally has caught up with the revocation of "hundreds" permits carried by citizens who no longer deserve the right to pack heat because they violated the law.They were illegally armed for weeks, months, maybe longer, with the full knowledge of the state Bureau of Criminal Identification, while the agency focused its efforts on processing concealed weapon permit applications.Anonymous editorial writer, please breath slowly in and out of a paper bag.That's right. Incredibly, revocation and suspension proceedings, which should have been launched when disqualifying crimes were uncovered during daily checks of court records, were delayed so the short-handed bureau could concentrate on putting even more guns on our streets.
Yes, it does sound like a classic case of Utah getting priorities mixed up. But at the risk of sounding like an in-bred hillbilly trip-wire constitutionalist, I gotta ask: Did violent crime skyrocket while this veritable army was on the loose with invalid permits?
And just because they had their permits, a piece of wallet-sized plastic, revoked, is there any reason to believe they still aren't walking around with a pistol down their pants?
Finally, now that their permits have been taken away — presumably a state trooper went to each of their homes and cut up their ID card — has violent crime in Utah plummeted?
I'm just asking.
4 Comments:
"And just because they had their permits, a piece of wallet-sized plastic, revoked, is there any reason to believe they still aren't walking around with a pistol down their pants?"
The comment (above) IS the point.
The only people who will lawfully carry (jump through the hoops to get a permit) are ones who obey the law. Gun "control" won't control the criminal. If he/she is willing to rape, rob and kill ... does anyone think he/she cares about getting a gun permit?
Gun control doesn't work. Look at all the big back east cities (and all their gun laws) ... then look at the cities with the most amount of crime. They are one in the same.
This is the ONLY issue Warchol gets right.
You are right, criminals don't register weapons, they steal them from all of the citizens who think they need them for use against the criminals. It's an insane cycle and the less guns out there the better for us all.
Emotions.
This is an emotional topic.
Emotions drive the criminal mind to commit criminal acts and the rational mind to protect those without sufficient means for protection.
This issue won't be solved until equality between the classes, races and sexes is achieved.
Until then, I hope those who make decisions according to situational logic and courage carry firearms responsibly and rationally.
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