Predictably:
In response, John Thomas, the lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, said, "SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety.''You can tell John to go **** himself here.
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(A copy of my email sent in response to JT)
"SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety.'' - John Thomas
With the amount of civilians being killed and maimed just by police TAZORS in this day and age, maybe the people are more concerned with their OWN safety and not the officers. The wild west was safer than today's world. Due partly to the fact that in a society where everyone is armed, or at least potentially armed(concealed weapons), most everyone is quite polite to one another for obvious reasons.
If every good man in the country carried weapons in public, either concealed or in the open, either a pistol or an M4 carbine, I have good reason to believe we would not need police, for criminals would be outnumbered, outgunned, and would feel compelled to either risk certain death or grievous injury commiting their petty crimes, or go straight like the rest of the world. Common law would be enforced by the common people. This may seem galling to some, but it has worked for thousands of years. Why would it not work again? What makes modern civilization so much higher, righteous, better, and above the civilization we used to be, not 100 years ago? A town with a hundred police officers could be reduced to a town with 10, and they would likely do little else than settle petty disputes between people and property.
Good people don't walk down the street, rifle in hand, killing people and police officers until they themselves are brought down.
But those that would try, would inevitably fall after the first shot they fired.
Police officers, police CHIEFS, are not soldiers, they are not high-ranking politicians or men of stature. They are civilians. Just like you. Just like me. The only difference is they have rights that we don't, because they are on the governments payroll and swore an oath that means very little in this day and age. THEY ARE JUST MEN. No different from any other man.
If regular people can't be trusted with discretion of their firearms, why should regular people trust police officers with theirs?
I did a search for this John Thomas fellow and this is what I found. Quite appropriate for "the lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police"...
I blogged about this myself the other day. Glad to see its getting some more exposure.
There are a few bills in the works here in AZ that need to pass, and this is one of them.
The other is a bill that is following the lead of a couple other states like Montana. Guns manufactured in AZ that remain in AZ are not subject to federal regulation.
Quote:""SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety."
Of course, everyone knows that Officer safety is the ONLY thing to be considered.
We can't have mere mortals... uhmmm... I mean civilians, exercising the rights of free men...
I mean we don't want THAT, do we? Hell, I mean, everything would be outta control!
OK, so let's get this straight. The criminals, by definition, don't care about the law and are the ones who would pose a danger to officers. Law abiding Citizens, by definition, care about the law and don't want to hurt the officers.
I fail to see the logic, but then again maybe I should be polite and leave the logic out of the conversation.
So Alaska and Vermont are the "Wild West"? And yet ... nope, still no blood in the Anchorage streets.
I amazed that Thomas can even form whole words.
as it happens, the "wild west" was pretty much the most peaceful time in the entire history of the united states.
"It was a rather polite and civil society enforced by armed men," according to one author. huh. how 'bout that.
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