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I have to disagree with this because if there weren't ccw laws then what incentive would people have to get training?
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Stopping the BG without blowing their foot off, improving their skills, personal enjoyment....what, you think all those people go to Thunder Ranch, Gunsite, LFI...because they -have- to? At thousands of dollars per class? I doubt it.
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You can say personal responsibility all you want but there's no way to enforce it without having laws in place.
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The Law Of Natural Selection is -always- in force, and there are no appeals. It is not the job of the State to force anyone to do anything, whether that "thing" is getting a permit, buying health insurance, or joining the Marines. The job of the State is to -stop- people, under certain circumstances, from doing things which concretely harm others. Until a random moron hurts someone else, his idiocy is nobody's problem but his own. If he only hurts himself, or just looks stupid in front of his friends, that's his problem and nobody else's.
The problem with a permit is that it is, purely and simply, a permission slip. Permission can be denied just as easily as it can be granted, and "Shall Issue" States could become "May/Shan't Issue" with one change of the legislature. In a State like California it's perfectly legal for the Sherriff to refuse a person a CCW because "Niggers don't need guns, boy" or "Guns are for men, little lady, now run home and do the washing." If you must demonstrate a "need" or "proficiency" before exercising a human right, all that someone who wishes to deny or repress that right has to do is simply decide that your "need" isn't great enough or you aren't -actually- "proficient enough" to exercise that right...and hey-presto, instant victim. So what if the Sherriff is your abusive ex-husband's cousin and best friend? Sherriff said "no gun" so it's "no gun." So what if you're black and the Sherriff has a bedsheet hung in his closet? Sherriff said "no gun" so it's "no gun." And if you don't know there are -plenty- of LEOs out there who would dearly love to disarm every female, black, hispanic, muslim, catholic, and jew they see...you a'int been payin' attention.