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Doug Huffman wrote:
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Subject: "Should Wisconsin allow citizens to legally carry concealed weapons?”
Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. Mandatory permitted concealment is just another infringement and raison d'etre for the NRA, selling dispensations, exceptions, from these infringements.
Gun control is about control, be it from the left or the right.
Newly registered but I've been lurking here for a while ... Howdy!
Could not agree more!
But I gave up on the Socialist Workers Republic back in June and moved to the "Wild West".
Colorado to be specific.
Open carry widely practiced (not in Denver area, another 'sanctuary city) and no problem, but if someone complains you might be detained maybe even charged with Disturbing the Peace or Disorderly Conduct neither one a big deal, but the LEO community considers a complaint reasonable cause.
A person may have a RIGHT to open carry, but to exercise it in a crowded mall during the Christmas season, knowing it will frighten some people (a real case) is IMHO incredibly foolish.
No charges but the two guys who did that got a long and stern warning and won't be repeating.
OTOH loaded handguns are okay in vehicles, long arms may have full magazines but nothing chambered. Residents and non-residents alike.
5 Year CC permit cost $102.50, from your local Sheriffs Dept., takes 60 to 80 days right now because of the workload, shall issue State, 90 Days you get the permit unless the SD can come up with a valid reason to deny it. Renewals are $35, IIRC) for another 5 years.
Good reciprocity to other states (but only to Permits issued to residents of the issuing state). I.E; FL permits issued to WI resident are a no go!
Sheriffs Dept. , Motor Vehicle, etc. people were the nicest and most helpful 'civil servants' I've run into in a long time!
Seems like out here the government LISTENS to the Citizens, used to be that way in WI but that was a LONG time ago.
Moved here from the S. Milwaukee/ Oak Creek area, and haven't felt this secure in years. My wife is visually handicapped, I need a cane most of the time, and we were unquestionably starting to like like 'easy pickens' 'back home'.
Crime on the Western Slope (a very gun friendly place) is ... sparse.
Crime ... well the paper posts the ten most wanted every week, usually car theft or forgery maybe some tools stolen out of a truck, I think there was a murder last spring before we got here, 50 miles away.
Maybe it's true, an armed society really IS a polite society!
Best of Luck to everyone in Badgerland.
Maybe if enough people get out to vote in Nov. things can change.
'Enough' means a large enough number to over rule the vote fraud coming out of Milwaukee County, Madison and the similar wannabe municipalities.
Just waiting for the SD to call and tell me to come in and pick up my permit.
CO's permit is in spite of the Professional Liberals on the Front Range.
So while I philosophically disagree with the whole permit routine, I'm going along with it here for pure convenience.
Love it here, but I'd like to think I could return some day and find a WI a bit more like the one I grew up in.
Again .... Best of Luck!
Regards,