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CCW in Wisconsin

David Hardy has much more on the effort to get shall issue concealed carry here. Some history that I found interesting:

In 1998, Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing that “the people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose.”

No wonder there’s an effort to override Doyle’s veto. Uncle predicts that Doyle’s political career is about to go belly up. Mark it.

12 Responses to “CCW in Wisconsin”

  1. tgirsch Says:

    I still think you’re oversimplifying it. It’s one thing to support owning guns for security and defense in the home, and quite another to support allowing virtually anyone to carry out in public. You’re close to one end of the gun spectrum, and there are some on the other end (the “anti-gunnies,” to use your term), but the vast majority of folks fall somewhere in between. Recall that polling in Wisconsin shows the populace more or less evenly divided on CCW, independent of what the legislature is doing. Neither the pro-CCW camp nor the anti-CCW camp can claim majority support among the people of Wisconsin, and while the pro-CCW camp generally has an advantage, it’s very slight, and probably within the statistic margin of error.

    As with most such things, I think you’d find that the rural folks overwhelmingly support it and the city folks overwhelmingly oppose it, hence the roughly even split.

  2. kevin Says:

    Yeah, no offense, but some of your commentators shouldn’t be allowed anything more dangerous than a short piece of string. And there are some I would keep the string away from. The idea of these people carrying their itching trigger finger everyone is out to get me paranoia into the grocery store next to my kids is a wee bit disconcerting 😉

  3. SayUncle Says:

    I carry my weapon in the grocery store next to my kid and I’m not paranoid.

  4. tgirsch Says:

    I dunno, man, feeling the need to carry a deadly weapon everywhere you go might be viewed by some as an “extreme, irrational distrust of others.” 🙂

  5. kevin Says:

    SU

    “I’m not paranoid.” Aisde from the fact that you carry your gun to a graocery store 🙂

  6. SayUncle Says:

    Or, you know, the scout motto.

  7. kevin Says:

    I hadn’t realized the meat in your grocery store didn’t come pre-packaged 🙂

  8. tgirsch Says:

    “the scout motto”

    “Be Prepared for a Gunfight at the Food Lion?”

  9. SayUncle Says:

    If I were to guess, I’d say most robberies/assaults took place in the parking lots/roads of retail establishments.

  10. tgirsch Says:

    If I were to guess, I’d say that you’re statistically far more likely to need a defribillator than a gun, and I’m betting you don’t carry the former around with you. 🙂

  11. SayUncle Says:

    If I thought I needed one, I might. Does that make me paranoid too?

  12. tgirsch Says:

    Depends how rational your basis is for thinking you might need one. 🙂 Is someone who thinks they need to wear tinfoil on their heads to keep the scanning rays out paranoid, or just prepared?

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