Conceal and Carry Aftermath

...Clearing The Smoke And Mirrors In Madtown

Below are some tidbits from the after-vote discussion from yesterday's Wisconsin Assembly vote not to override Governor Doyle's veto of the conceal and carry, aka, Personal Protection act.
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Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) says: It's Time to move forward at the capitol

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Now that concealed carry is dead, one lawmaker says he hopes to get to the real issues facing our state. Richards says he wants to talk about issues that affect middle class families in Wisconsin, including affordable healthcare. Even though nobody in Wisconsin will be carrying concealed weapons any time soon, Mark Pettis (R-Hertel) had to get one last word in, saying people who take firearm training classes and get permits are not the bad guys.
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I find Mark Pettis' comment interesting. Who said anybody was saying the conceal and carry people were "bad guys?" I'm certain they are of the noblest character. If you need more proof, just go dig around on the ontheborderline.net web site and see what some of your "responsible" neighbors had to say about conceal and carry. If OTBL's Conn is the poster child of conceal and carry, the bill should have near reached Doyle's desk to be vetoed. My problem is that people like Conn talk tough with the big gun in hand. They confuse a "priviledge" with a "right." A show of adult responsiblity would go a lot further than redneck bravado. Scroll down and read about the conviction of Minnesota's first conceal and carry murderer.

If it was the "good guys" who were speaking out for conceal and carry, it wouldn't such an issue with me. Maybe an exposed and carry law would be better? But how would this idea be met by the anonymous bloggers who don't have the guts to use their name and want to run around with a gun hidden in their pocket? This isn't the motorcycle helmet law. There's more than one person's brain bucket at stake.

If their argument is that they live in a dangerous part of Milwaukee, I'll take a word from Rush Limbaugh's line to displaced autoworkers in Michigan -- MOVE! If it's not safe, get out. I'm sure there will be Republican's bringing another conceal and carry bill to the table. It seems to follow their three-chord agenda of "Guns, Gays and God."

JPN
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Chippewa Falls Republican Jeff Wood attacks flip-floppers of concealed carry
Says they have no integrity
One lawmaker in the Assembly is riled up after failing to overturn the governor's veto. Saying he's "disgusted with lack of ethics" at the state capitol, Wood attacks the two Democrats who had supported the Personal Protection Act but flip flopped when their votes mattered the most. "They have no principles or integrity." Wood says concealed carry is not an easy issue to deal with, and because of that, he respects the opinions of other lawmakers, but not because someone twists their arms.

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