Showing posts with label CCW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CCW. Show all posts

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Predictions of "Wild West" never happened

April 05, 2015 CCW , Concealed Carry 0 Comments
Concealed Carry Predictions Way Off Target


By Christian Schneider, Apr. 4, 2015, Journal Sentinel

When the Wisconsin Senate gathered in June of 2011 to take up a bill allowing the state's citizens to carry concealed weapons, protesters around the Capitol building were still in a state of high dudgeon. As a result, Republicans were accused of "rushing" through "socially divisive" bills such as concealed carry and voter identification through the legislative process while the state's attention was focused elsewhere.

Indeed, on the very day the Senate met to debate concealed weapons, the state Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding Gov. Scott Walker's union changes. Yet in retrospect, the alleged clandestine nature of concealed carry's passage didn't help the bill's supporters. Instead, it may have aided its opponents a great deal more. Now, four years later, there is scant record of how terrible their hysterical predictions actually turned out.

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Solution to "militarization"--CCW's!

August 17, 2014 CCW , Ferguson 0 Comments
ARISE Stages Demonstration In Springfield To Protest Ferguson Shooting, Racism, Police Militarization

People hold signs on State Street on Thursday 

afternoon in Springfield to 
protest the events of Ferguson, MO. 
Credit: Dave Roback / The Republican
By Patrick Johnson, Aug. 15, 2014, Masslive.com

SPRINGFIELD — People from Western Massachusetts on Thursday night took to the streets of Springfield to protest what they called an injustice 1,100 miles away in Ferguson, Missouri.

In a demonstration at the intersection of State, Federal and Walnut streets, protesters held signs and chanted, while passing motorists blared their horns in support. Roughly 20 people positioned themselves at each of the four corners and on the two traffic islands at the intersection.

The demonstration, planned by the Springfield-based organization ARISE For Social Justice, was called to protest not only the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, by police in Ferguson, but also to protest what they called heavy-handed militarized tactics used by police to quell the civilian protests that have sprung up in the wake of Brown’s death.

“If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere,” said Ellen Graves, the Peace and Anti-Violence Organizer for ARISE. “It can happen anywhere."

Brown, who was due to start his freshman year at college, was shot and killed Saturday by a police officer after the officer told him and a friend to use the sidewalk instead of walking in the road.

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