Nutczak
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My GF picked up the local paper yesterday, flops it on my lap with the paper opened to Dougs letter and says in an inqusitive way "Friend of yours?" I was very happy the times chose to print Dougs letter. Now I am curious to know if they did any editing from the original.
Link http://lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=11&SubSectionID=11&ArticleID=9106&TM=43056.57
Clearing the waters
[font="TIMES, SERIF"]To the Editor:
In his "Don't muddy the waters," (page 8, Feb. 3 edition) Mr. Wendel Kurr opened with the rhetorical announcement that Mr. Moore and "The Lakeland Times did a good job of raising some of the questions which relate to the complex topic of gun rights."
Unfortunately Mr. Kurr's rhetoric did nothing to clarify the topic or even to mention the questions raised but one.
In the midst of his exposition of opinion, he does ask, "How can an individual move about through the community ... while ensuring that the firearm he or she openly carries does not come into the wrong hands?"
It is common practice among open carriers to use a "retention holster" that features (often multiple) mechanical arrangements to ensure the gun cannot be improperly removed. Openly armed police officers usually carry their gun in a retention holster. The occurrence of a successful snatch from a legally armed, and open carrying citizen has never been documented.
Neither the Second Amendment to the Constitution of The United States nor Wisconsin's Constitution, Article I, Section 25 make any mention of training or of what might constitute proper training.
Indeed, the Second Amendment requires that it "shall not be infringed."
Doug Huffman
Washington Island[/font]
My GF picked up the local paper yesterday, flops it on my lap with the paper opened to Dougs letter and says in an inqusitive way "Friend of yours?" I was very happy the times chose to print Dougs letter. Now I am curious to know if they did any editing from the original.
Link http://lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=11&SubSectionID=11&ArticleID=9106&TM=43056.57
Clearing the waters
[font="TIMES, SERIF"]To the Editor:
In his "Don't muddy the waters," (page 8, Feb. 3 edition) Mr. Wendel Kurr opened with the rhetorical announcement that Mr. Moore and "The Lakeland Times did a good job of raising some of the questions which relate to the complex topic of gun rights."
Unfortunately Mr. Kurr's rhetoric did nothing to clarify the topic or even to mention the questions raised but one.
In the midst of his exposition of opinion, he does ask, "How can an individual move about through the community ... while ensuring that the firearm he or she openly carries does not come into the wrong hands?"
It is common practice among open carriers to use a "retention holster" that features (often multiple) mechanical arrangements to ensure the gun cannot be improperly removed. Openly armed police officers usually carry their gun in a retention holster. The occurrence of a successful snatch from a legally armed, and open carrying citizen has never been documented.
Neither the Second Amendment to the Constitution of The United States nor Wisconsin's Constitution, Article I, Section 25 make any mention of training or of what might constitute proper training.
Indeed, the Second Amendment requires that it "shall not be infringed."
Doug Huffman
Washington Island[/font]