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Originally Posted by Dusty74
Buggyone, some states do have a concealed carry permit system that requires a legitimate need in order to get a permit. These types of permits are also known as may issue and also discriminatory permits. One of these states was California, in which their discriminatory permit system was recently ruled unconstitutional. In many, many cases, these "legitimate need" based permits are only given to people who donate money to a certain political party, hollywood celebrities, relatives of the sheriff or mayor, people whose skin is a certain color, etc. Do you really believe that is what we want in America? Where only the elite and connected have rights that us commoners do not have?
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That's interesting. Do you have any more information about this case in California? I certainly do not think that only the "ins" should have the privilege of carrying concealed weapons. Would hope that extensive safety training would be required as well as a thorough objective evaluation of temperament and the like. I am more afraid of hotheads getting access to concealed weapon permits-- like the retired police officer near Tampa who shot the moviegoer over getting hit in the face with popcorn-- than of mentally ill people getting them. If you look at the statistics it is the mentally ill who are usually the victims of violence and not the perpetrators. There are the very violent criminals who are mentally ill or use the appearance of being mentally ill to conduct their heinous plans and possibly get away with such actions. Probably like the Aurora movie shooter who in my mind knew exactly what he was doing and that it was evil. There are legitimate cases of what looks like a seemingly good person going bad because of some tumor or a chemical imbalance in the brain like Charles Whitman, the U of Texas tower shooter who had some kind of brain tumor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_vio..._United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting
Who would you rather have a gun-- the thugs who set some paranoid schizophrenic on fire for their amusement or the paranoid schizophrenic who more than probably not knows that he or she has mental problems and has probably worked hard for a cure? It is the thugs who probably try to act "normal" around others when they are not bullying people who cannot fight back. This link is for the UK but the same problem exists in the US--
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/02Februa...tack-risk.aspx