{"id":791,"date":"2010-04-19T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-04-19T07:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:51:57","slug":"interesting-times-in-gun-owners-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/interesting-times-in-gun-owners-civil-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERESTING TIMES IN GUN OWNERS\u2019 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an interesting week for gun owners\u2019 rights activists, and this week promises to continue the trend. Last week, the Governor of Arizona signed the legislation that will make that state the third in the nation that allows law-abiding adult citizens to carry loaded, concealed handguns in public without a permit. The law goes into effect this summer, I\u2019m told. (LINK HERE<\/a>). Vermont has had that system for as long as any living human can remember, and has always had one of the lowest rates of violent crime of any state in the nation \u2013 many years, THE lowest. Bad judgment shootings by law-abiding carriers are so infrequent as to be off the radar screen.\u00a0 A few years ago, Alaska followed with what might be an even better system. I say that because Vermont, never having needed a permit system, has none in place, so the Vermont citizen can get no indigenous permit with which to reciprocate when he or she travels to states that recognize other state\u2019s resident permits. Alaska kept its permit system in place, to allow for its citizens to have reciprocity elsewhere.\u00a0 This is the model Arizona is following.<\/p>\n

Today the Second Amendment March is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC. I expect it to go peacefully, and therefore be largely ignored by the anti-gun elements of the mainstream media. It would not surprise me at all if the turnout dwarfed that of the Million Man March of anti-gunners a few years ago, whose attendance was a miniscule fraction of their eponymous name\/number.<\/p>\n

This immediate past weekend saw our friends in the Appleseed Project hold their excellent rifle clinics\/history lectures all around the country, in celebration of the anniversary of the events at Concord and Lexington that sparked the American Revolution and the birth of this nation. The date for the peaceful march in Washington was chosen for the same reason. Of course, much of the mainstream media will choose to mention instead that it coincides with such anniversaries as the Branch Davidian debacle in Waco and the terrorist McVeigh\u2019s bombing in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

My buddy Mike Larney tells me the turnout was huge at the Appleseed he helped teach over the weekend. I couldn\u2019t be at one because I was teaching a deadly force class in Wisconsin, hosted by Chief Bill Meloy at his splendid police headquarters in Saukville. Though LEOs were in attendance, the course was geared mainly for armed citizens, and the classroom was full. Like many chief law enforcement officers in Wisconsin, Chief Meloy is comfortable with the idea that Concealed Carry is expected to soon become law in his state, one of only two that currently ban the practice (the other being Illinois). He sees the teaching of firearms responsibility to law-abiding citizens as a natural part of his agency\u2019s public safety and crime prevention mission.<\/p>\n

Our nation needs more top cops like him.<\/p>\n

Capt. Ayoob, left, thanks Chief Meloy for his commitment to public safety.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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