I caught a glimpse of an article on 60 Minutes today. It was about CCW and how it should be tougher to get licenses. They sure tried to muster up something bad to say, but didn't have much. CCW has just been too successful over the last 8 years.
They had some Police dork on who was their "anti" for the day (I forget his credentials, but he was some kind of LEO person named Wagner, one of the few anti-gun LEO's that the anti-s love to exploit). He said genius things like "I don't think armed victims are any concern to criminals, criminals don't care if people are armed or not" and "criminals will pull their gun first anyway, so you could never got your gun in time" (as if all crimes involve guns anyway). Yeah, that guy was a genius. So when dealing with a criminal the alternative to resistance is.....what? Since the BG's have the advantage, we should just walk around unarmed and hope they don't pick us, like some kind of lottery game with our life?
One of his quotes was "as a trained Police Officer (*ahem*, trained?) if someone put a gun to the back of my head, even if I tried to pull my exposed sidearm, I would be a fool, and that is what happens a lot of times (with CCW people trying to resist and dying). Excuse me? It happens "a lot of the time"? Please show us some examples since this happens so very often.
They interviewed a woman as their "pro-gun" person. Tried to nail her down with "what about people getting mad in traffic and shooting each other or untrained people (that was their big hype) using the gun at the wrong time"? The woman countered: "In eight years of CCW we have never had any such incident....in over a quarter of a million licenses, less than two dozen have been revoked for unlawful use of a firearm."
They used Florida as the model. They showed that Florida has no shooting qualification to get a permit, which is unusual to me. They argue that people should have to shoot adaquatly to get their license. I agree with people getting plenty of training, and I think that the better people are trained, the better CCW holders will look in the future. The last thing we need is some untrained people screwing it up for all of us.
But, the funny thing is how they really tried to make CCW sound bad but they just couldn't pull it off because there isn't anything "bad" to say about it. They said "The goal of CCW is to reduce crime, but in Florida, while crime has not risen since CCW was instated, it has not fallen by much either." Hasn't fallen "by much"?!? Exactly how much is enough? Isn't "one life worth it"? How much does crime have to fall to make something is a "worthwhile" anti-crime measure? Then they followed with "Florida still has some of the highest crime rates in the country" as if that is related since the crime rates were HIGHER before CCW started several years ago and have dropped since. Obviously they were grabbing at straws there.
The chick that did the story was very proud that she had never fired a gun in her life (sounds like the wrong reporter to choose do a gun story: talk about unknowledgeable on the topic), and she said she did not renew her license, so she is no longer a CCW holder (I had to wonder how often you have to renew in Florida, because the story would have to be very old for her license to already expire. My guess is she was flat out lying in order to sound PC, but I could be wrong). She seems to be very proud of her anti-gun status and was not too bright to advertise it because it shows her bias and it made me wonder whether they should find someone with knowledge on the topic to do the story instead.. And her proud anti-gun stance shows anyone stalking her that she is unarmed.
There is a female newscaster in Phoenix AZ who is a proud gun carrier. Her name is Gineane (sp?) Ford and I have met her. She even proudly pulled her .357 out of her purse during a newscast to show it to the camera once during a gun related story. I think she was wisely saying "anyone out there that is thinking of stalking me, think twice".
What would be totally amazing is if 60 Minutes or someone would ever do a POSITIVE story on CCW. There is SO MUCH out there to cover that they could put together a fantastic story about the success of CCW. They could show stats and examples of successes with interviews of people who defended themselves or assisted Police in a situation. The story is out there and could make a great show full of heroism and feel-good teary-eyed survivor stories. How come they refuse to cover it? (No need to answer that)
They had some Police dork on who was their "anti" for the day (I forget his credentials, but he was some kind of LEO person named Wagner, one of the few anti-gun LEO's that the anti-s love to exploit). He said genius things like "I don't think armed victims are any concern to criminals, criminals don't care if people are armed or not" and "criminals will pull their gun first anyway, so you could never got your gun in time" (as if all crimes involve guns anyway). Yeah, that guy was a genius. So when dealing with a criminal the alternative to resistance is.....what? Since the BG's have the advantage, we should just walk around unarmed and hope they don't pick us, like some kind of lottery game with our life?
One of his quotes was "as a trained Police Officer (*ahem*, trained?) if someone put a gun to the back of my head, even if I tried to pull my exposed sidearm, I would be a fool, and that is what happens a lot of times (with CCW people trying to resist and dying). Excuse me? It happens "a lot of the time"? Please show us some examples since this happens so very often.
They interviewed a woman as their "pro-gun" person. Tried to nail her down with "what about people getting mad in traffic and shooting each other or untrained people (that was their big hype) using the gun at the wrong time"? The woman countered: "In eight years of CCW we have never had any such incident....in over a quarter of a million licenses, less than two dozen have been revoked for unlawful use of a firearm."
They used Florida as the model. They showed that Florida has no shooting qualification to get a permit, which is unusual to me. They argue that people should have to shoot adaquatly to get their license. I agree with people getting plenty of training, and I think that the better people are trained, the better CCW holders will look in the future. The last thing we need is some untrained people screwing it up for all of us.
But, the funny thing is how they really tried to make CCW sound bad but they just couldn't pull it off because there isn't anything "bad" to say about it. They said "The goal of CCW is to reduce crime, but in Florida, while crime has not risen since CCW was instated, it has not fallen by much either." Hasn't fallen "by much"?!? Exactly how much is enough? Isn't "one life worth it"? How much does crime have to fall to make something is a "worthwhile" anti-crime measure? Then they followed with "Florida still has some of the highest crime rates in the country" as if that is related since the crime rates were HIGHER before CCW started several years ago and have dropped since. Obviously they were grabbing at straws there.
The chick that did the story was very proud that she had never fired a gun in her life (sounds like the wrong reporter to choose do a gun story: talk about unknowledgeable on the topic), and she said she did not renew her license, so she is no longer a CCW holder (I had to wonder how often you have to renew in Florida, because the story would have to be very old for her license to already expire. My guess is she was flat out lying in order to sound PC, but I could be wrong). She seems to be very proud of her anti-gun status and was not too bright to advertise it because it shows her bias and it made me wonder whether they should find someone with knowledge on the topic to do the story instead.. And her proud anti-gun stance shows anyone stalking her that she is unarmed.
There is a female newscaster in Phoenix AZ who is a proud gun carrier. Her name is Gineane (sp?) Ford and I have met her. She even proudly pulled her .357 out of her purse during a newscast to show it to the camera once during a gun related story. I think she was wisely saying "anyone out there that is thinking of stalking me, think twice".
What would be totally amazing is if 60 Minutes or someone would ever do a POSITIVE story on CCW. There is SO MUCH out there to cover that they could put together a fantastic story about the success of CCW. They could show stats and examples of successes with interviews of people who defended themselves or assisted Police in a situation. The story is out there and could make a great show full of heroism and feel-good teary-eyed survivor stories. How come they refuse to cover it? (No need to answer that)