All you other evil states are just wrong
Wisconsin remains a holdout in the nationwide trend to allow people to carry concealed guns.
The Legislature should keep it that way.
The state has survived quite nicely for 134 years with a ban on concealed weapons. There is no compelling reason to now invite people to carry hidden firearms. In fact, there are compelling reasons to retain the ban.
Such as?
CCW has been passed twice in Wisconsin in the last bit. Both times, Doyle vetoed it. Back to their reasons:
•Concealed guns are trouble waiting to happen.
Err, no, they are not.
In Minneapolis in the spring of 2005, police apprehended Zachary Ourada shortly after he had shot and killed a restaurant doorman. The doorman had earlier asked Ourada to leave the restaurant because he was harassing women.
When police captured him, Ourada shouted: “I didn’t do nuthin’ wrong. I got a permit to carry that (gun).”
Sounds horrible, doesn’t it. Only problem is that the State Journal left out one major fact about the incident. You see, some of us covered the incident a while back, and Ourada was not carrying at the bar. He left, went home and returned 30 – 40 minutes later with a weapon before murdering the doorman. The implication is that some CCW permit holder blew some dude away while packing and that’s not the case.
