Opening Day For WI Concealed Gun Carry, 1st Day For "Accidental" Discharges
Earlier today we said it was Day One of Concealed Carry Watch in Wisconsin, where Republican legislators and Gov. Walker are welcoming pocket pistols in the State Capitol and elsewhere - - and now, right on schedule, here's a suspect in custody with bad timing, and more.
...[the alleged victim said the suspect] grabbed her by the hair and threw her onto the hood of her car. She noticed a black handgun, she said, and then heard an extremely loud bang that left her ear ringing into Tuesday. She said [the suspect] threatened to shoot her in the foot, but she kept screaming and fighting to break free and he eventually let her go and left. She said she then called 911...
Later Monday, she said, she was brushing out her hair and a shell casing fell out.
"I freaked out all over again," she said, and called 911. Police came and recovered the shell casing, she said.
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Nice try.
There are not any conceal carry permits issued to WI residents yet today.
Leave it to the lefties who will now now try and relate every gun incident to conceal carry legislation.
Were there gun crimes in WI before today? Yes. Will there be gun crimes after today? Yes.
The guy in this article sounds like a real winner and would have done this (as he did) with or without conceal carry legislation.
Hopefully Castle Doctrine is passed by the Senate tomorrow and then on to Walker's desk by the weekend!
Slow down. All that typing is going to irritate your trigger finger.
same thing happened the first day viagra was on the market.
I'm kind of upset that I didn't have time to drive my application up to Madison today...
Hopefully the US Mail will pull through and get it there tomorrow.
...and just an FYI, I like many others most likely wouldn't carry a firearm, but I like the option of having a taser in my vehicle or being able to carry it on me just in case.
Please watch as our crime rate starts to drop!
@RD: Right. A Taser in your glove compartment.Sounds like a bad Mae West line to me...
And that Taser? is it kept in what I assume is a locked car? Of course. Would you leave your expensive weapon in an unlocked vehicle.
You do what, then...outrun a threa to you car...fumble for the keys, unlock it...jump in. Relock the car door. Dig out the Taser, but is the glove box locked, too? D'OH!
Anyway..you access the Taser and activate it. And what, fire it from inside the car, through a window, exposing yourself to the threat?
Do you get back out of the vehicle and confront the threat?
In that amount of time you could have honked your horn loudly, driven away and called 9-1-1, but perhaps that is too unmanly.
Why walk when you can swagger?
I can see it now: Two drivers shoot each other's tires out during 94 westbound road rage incident. Both claimed selfdefense and whipped out their cancelled guns.
Who said anything about keeping it in a glovebox???
As you correctly indicated, that would be very inconvenient in the unfortunate event that you needed to use it. Which is precisely why we needed conceal carry legislation, so that individuals have immediate and direct access to their own self protection.
As for the taser, I'll just set it on the seat next to me when I am driving and then put it inside my vest when walking around. Then it will be readily available in a seconds notice...
@RD - - Ah, I see. Just put a "steal this" sign on the case, so the thief who breaks into your vehicle knows which of your items to run off with.
Great to put another weapon out on the streets.
James,
The only time it will be left in the car is when I need to enter a building with one of those silly little signs you have available to print on this post.
That is part of the absurdity in putting a sign like that up. You are telling the criminals... hey, look in the cars in our parking lot for guns! We make our customers take them off before they come in the store.
The fear and hype created by the left on this issue is simply not going to happen. Just as it didn't happen in any of the other states.
My application was mailed in yesterday, so hopefully it got near the top of what I assume was a big pile of mail at the DOJ today.
To RD: Pathetic argument. An anti-carry sign signals to thieves to check the vehicles in the parking lot?
If you feel the need to drive around with a Taser, what happens to it is your responsibility.
I am a law abiding citizen.
If I decide to exercise my constitutional rights and some shop owner decides that he/she is safer allowing just the criminals to conceal weapons in there store... well that is their decision.
I will either abide by their no carry sign or take my business elsewhere.
However, their decision also has real world, non-utopian consequences that, yes, criminals could target vehicles in their parking lots.
While I will have a safe/lock box in my vehicle, the firearm, knife or taser would be much more secure on the individual, rather than sitting in an empty car in a parking lot.
The simple answer is to allow the law abiding customers the same rights as your criminal customers grant themselves.
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