Opinions on CCW laws wanted, do you agree? Or Disagree?

Question

I just want to know opinions on the CCW laws. Do you agree citizens should have the right to carry concealed? Why or why not? I 'm in Missouri & we are newer to CCW. I have always had a small handgun of my own just for self protection at home. I do feel it is our right to CCW within the law, then again I hear many are against guns of any type for any reason & all they can say is "guns kill people". Do they not realize even if guns were illegal for everyone, the criminals would be the only ones with guns? I recently got my permit to CCW & didn't want to take the class an an only woman so I ask a few friends to go with me & was amazed that about 25% had already got permit & were carrying 24/7 basically & the ones that didn't want to CCW were so against guns in general, they said they "didn't want to hear it". Amazed again in class with about 75% of the class was women.

CitiCop can you email me at [e-mail] since your in Missouri I have a question maybe you can asnwer.

Answer 1

I'm all for it providing they qualify and aren't criminals. Our State is pretty restrictive on firearms. Forget Chicago or Cook County. They might as well be a foreign country or their own state.

Ken, The BATF already does firearms tracing. It only goes back to the last legal owner. If a gun is sold privately, they can question the previous owner who may or may not give them the information. In Illinois, if the previous owner did not keep a record of who the gun was sold to and a copy of the new owners FOID card, he could be charged.

Ammunition, like firearms are stolen all the time. You cant arrest a person whose stolen firearms and ammunition was used in a crime. Numbering projectiles and cases is, first of all, impractical. There are billions of rounds of ammo produced in the US and many more coming from abroad. The projectile would likely be destroyed and firing can also mar the casings serial number.

Firearms traces do work but it does take time. Why not serialize every can of beer so the owner can be traced in a DUI or fatal accident?

Answer 2

You know, I didn't fully appreciate the importance of our right to carry until I moved to Maryland, in the DC area. Here, I have no rights. And worst yet, if there were any place I need them, it is here. I've lived peacably for 25 years, never really having any sort of problem or perceived threat from other people until I moved here.
My wife is constantly harrassed during her commute and even I have been harrassed on occasion.
For me, it comes down to the fact that the police are not required or obligated to protect an individual. With that in mind, it is criminally negligent to deny a lawful citizen the right to protect themselves by carrying. It's now my goal to see to it that these rights get restored to the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Answer 3

Honestly i think that it's not misleading at all, of course when you first meet a guy a woman likes to make herself look her best, but obviously a man cannot expect for that woman to look her best all the time, there are times when a woman may just feel to dress down, i d k about you but for me, i hate dressing up all the time, of course there's a time and place for everything, but for me i won't look my best every single time, i do however look good everyday, but some days i look my best which requires more time being spent on the key areas to achieve that.But i really do not think that's it's misleading at all, if a girl decides to dress casual, or down after into the relationship, and if there's a man out there that expects his woman to dress up for him every single day, then he is the most shallowist person i could think of, and he'll be greatly disappointed in that woman, b/c i could guarantee you that at some point in that relationship she will dress down.And i think that a woman should not just let herself go to the dogs by not dressing all the time, but she is required to have "OFF DAYS" whereby she is allowed to dress down when she wants to .Then again that's just my opinion on the matter!

Answer 4

I support responsible ccw laws. To me responsible includes background checks and owner education. Why don't we devote our resources to technology to identify stolen weapons and weapons used in crimes? If we are going to have instant background checks, why not do background checks for the purchase of bullets also? Why don't bullets and casings have serial numbers so that purchases could be traced (I realize that the information would often be lost in the case of the actual round, but there is no doubt it would sometimes be useful)? It seems that the politics of the matter suggest easy solutions designed to look tough but, obviously, are not effective in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.

Answer 5

I think CCW is better than an outright ban.

I also think CCW is the licensing of a freedom you should already have.

Remember, government disarms before it destroys. Just as with the Nazi's disarming their citizens before the Holocaust, or Americans passing gun control legislation to disarm blacks who resist unlawful lynchings.

Gun control is a real evil.

Answer 6

I'm a police officer in Missouri, and I have no problem with responsible, safe Concealed Carry among law abiding citizens.

**Edit**

I'd be happy to help, but I don't give out my email address.

Go to http://forums.realpolice.net and send me a PM.

Answer 7

I'm all for it. It's not the legal carriers that I USUALLY have to worry about, it's the thugs who are and were already carrying illegally that I have to worry about the most.