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Kirata -> RE: Young Americans exercise their 2nd Amendment rights (3/15/2012 4:29:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto
When I was older and I had small children, I NEVER left a gun, loaded or unloaded, when my children or their friends could get their hands on it.
A CCW permit holder should never be expected to abandon his firearm, but laws in many states require this.
For example, when Ohio first passed CC, shop owners were allowed to post a notice forbidding firearms on their premises. The effect of this was to turn every shopping center parking lot into an open-air gun bazaar. Simply watching people in a parking lot for a while would sooner or later be rewarded by seeing a driver remove something from his belt and reach across to put it in the glove compartment.
Having had the privilege (if that's the word I want) of actually seeing a smash and grab go down once, I can tell you that it took the guy about three seconds to smash the passenger side window, pop the glove compartment lock, and be on his way.
Courts pose another problem. They should check firearms and return them, rather than require people to abandon their weapon outside by leaving it in their vehicle. And in Florida, to take another example, you cannot even have your weapon accessible when driving. Not only does this renders it useless in a carjacking, it virtually guarrantees that the car-jacker will get both the car and a gun.
Wonderful, eh? Granted some people don't think, sometimes the non-thinkers are the ones making our laws.
K.
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