DrTodd
Michigan Moderator
Not directed at you DrTodd... just bouncing off your post.
Perhaps it is time... rather past time I think... to expose the whole CPL fiasco for what it really is... a means of controlling who gets to carry a gun... and who doesn't.
A CPL is only an expansion of the old Sheriff of the West who, in order to be the only one with a gun in town, declared there would be no guns allowed in town... except for his chosen deputies of course.
CPL's are nothing more than the government making a privilege.. for the honored privileged... out of what used to be the right of every person to keep and bear.
C'mon Bikenut... you know I agree 100% with the whole cc/oc with NO permit required... federal law needs to be worked on too, 'til then I'm keeping my CPL.
I was just pointing out that the StateOfMI's logic whereby only "special" people w/ a CPL should be allowed to CC in a PFZ... even though we haven't received any less training and may even be in more danger than those who are given the privileged access card with the "checked-box". Sort of a SUPER privilege card.
I do think some other states are really are bringing the whole "constitutional carry" issue to the forefront as of late (Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming to name a few)... so the issue is getting out there, albeit slowly.
But yes, the whole idea of a permission slip to exercise a right is anathema to what this country was founded upon. But that could be saved for another thread... if not a whole other website.