EDITORIAL: FEDERAL LAW WILL NOT BRING GUNFIRE

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The Amarillo Globe News (Texas)

Web-posted Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Editorial: Fed law won't bring gunfire
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It probably comes as no surprise that local parks officials don't see a problem
with a new federal law that allows people to carry firearms onto federal park property.
This is the Texas Panhandle, after all, where guns are a way of life.

As the Globe-News' Janelle Stecklein reported Saturday, Lake Meredith's chief ranger,
Paul Jones, said the law "doesn't really change how we do business because we allow hunting here."
That means at Lake Meredith, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Rosita Flats
and Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

The federal law, which took effect Feb. 22, makes sense, given that Texas allows people to carry concealed handguns -
provided they take the required course and pass an examination before being issued a license.

If the federal parks are going to allow hunting, then it stands to reason that they should allow firearms - yes?

Of course, National Park Service officials along with Texas Parks and Wildlife authorities need to ensure
that our parks don't become shooting galleries.

The record bodes well for the federal park land.

Texas enacted a concealed-carry law in the mid-1990s concern amid in some quarters that the state
would become a place where antagonists would shoot first and ask questions later.

It hasn't happened.

The concealed-carry law has worked well. Thus, the federal parks figure to function just fine - even with armed visitors.

[All emfasis has been added by David.]

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The concealed carry law has worked well, says David.

Not according to the University of Texas.
"the crime rate in Texas since the early 1980s has consistently run 10 percent or more above the national average"

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

The concealed carry law has worked well, says David.

Not according to the University of Texas.
"the crime rate in Texas since the early 1980s has consistently run 10 percent or more above the national average"

I 'm under the general impression that when CCW Concealed Carry Weapons Licenses is enacted (throwing out "gun control")
that crime has dropped the next year in each State that has enacted CCW, according to FBI annual statistics.

Since 1986 approximately 40 of the 50 States has rejected and repealed
discriminatory licensure of the right to carry concealed guns,
in favor of the CCW legal concept that the poice MUST issue,
with no discretion on their part
(the same as thay have no discretion on granting marriage licenses)
unless the CCW applicant is an adjudicated lunatic or a convicted criminal.

If Texas had a bad experience with crime AFTER enacting
the personal liberty based system, its legislators coud have & woud have at least DEBATED throwing out CCW
and reverting to the old system of gun control.

That did not happen; not in Texas, not in anywhere.

Of all of those States, NONE of them, (count them: NONE)
has ever gone back to gun control, repealling CCW.

John Lott is very good at making the case statistically; I 'm not much of a statistician.

David

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