"We don't have any data, but there seems to be a type of criminal out there looking to thwart authority," he told the station.
“We live in a time when the language surrounding Second Amendment rights are out of control in my opinion,” White said. “It takes real courage from someone like him to bring that up and talk about it in a public place.”
And that requires stricter gun control, Ms. Alberding says. She feels an additional obligation to carry on after other foundations stopped funding gun-control efforts over the past decade as the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress and state legislatures endorsed fewer and fewer restrictions on guns. Currently, only Illinois and Wisconsin prohibit carrying concealed weapons.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
"I think the nation's spirits would be lifted if the Congress acted quickly with the president and reinstated the assault weapons ban which also had the ban on these large magazines, these clips that carried 30-plus bullets," he said
"If somebody walks in with a sidearm, who's not a uniformed police officer, that's going to make some of our customers uncomfortable," Beresford said. "While we're not posting signs, and we're not trying to create any prohibition, we certainly will not encourage it."
"About 16," replied Wagner, "everything from pistols and a Glock, to shotguns, rifles, and my son, who's on the combat weapons team at West Point, has an assault rifle,"
"The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens — raised here, born here and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.”
Missouri has the dubious distinction of being among the top ten states where law enforcement officer were killed in the line of duty in 2010. The head of the Missouri FOP says he doesn't think conceal carry laws are the cause, it's criminals who have guns that are behind the deadly crimes. The group says it will lobby state lawmakers to toughen penalties for those who use guns to commit crimes.
State legislators passed about 31,000 news laws in 2010, down slightly from the previous year. Many of those laws took effect at the start of this year, and many reflect the potential misuse of computers.
To my friends in public office, I distill my advice to one phrase: Think of the "common good," not what is best for a special interest group. "Unless we work for the common good, there won't be any."
When we expand civil causes of action to one class, the rest have to pay for it. And when we expand privileges to a few, the non-privileged have to live with the consequences.
Those who advocate the deregulation of handguns enjoy a benefit enjoyed by a few at the expense of the majority and to the detriment of the common good.
