UPDATE ON AN UPTICK!

UPDATE ON AN UPTICK! (Mother Jones-Frazer Chronicle)



America is another step closer to open gun battles on American streets, thanks to the National Rifle Association and a duped United States public. Concealed carry is the law of the land, well almost, only Illinois is refusing this "wild west" mentality law. Talk about capitulating to one of the biggest lobbying groups in "lobbyism," it's what happened right here, in the United States and right under our collective noses.

It's kinda like each state in the union has opened a "Guns Are Us" store where a guy can walk in , fill out a piece of paper, signifying a desire for a concealed permit, and after a short background check, the guy walks out "packing" a hand gun capable of ending another person's life. Somewhere in this equation, "the message gets lost" in translation.

I mean how important can a dollar bill really be, how cherished can a family keepsake be, worth shooting somebody, worth killing a person to death. Death is so permanent so abruptly final, one minute your walking, talking and maybe sharing inter-most thoughts, the next, your laying on the ground, blood streaming from a finger sized hole somewhere on your body.

I have written about concealed weapons in the past, in fact, just before Wisconsin caved into the N.R.A. crowd. Now it's legal to carry a fire-arm into some taverns, grocery stores, on college campuses, within less than 50 feet of a high school and into certain areas of the state capital buildings, why?

How many out there have shot a person, "not just winged um," rather put a bullet hole in their head, watched the sight and listened to the sounds and watched the amassing amount of blood that comes from a head-shot wound, I'll be not many. Shooting somebody is not pretty, a little wacko and certainly a traumatic action.

Shooting somebody, when the shooter has little or no training can not only be a devastating to all of those people involved, but can put into action a retaliatory reaction from family members or friends of the decedent.

In just the past 3 years, 22 states have weakened or eliminated gun laws restricting the possession of concealed weapons. At the present time, it is illegal to carry concealed weapons across state line. However the United States Congress is considering states to recognize each other's carry permits to be recognized, like a person's drivers license that might be issued in Wisconsin being honored in say.....California.

Look, the weapons makers, the N.R.A. lobbyist and the "ammo" producers have won the battles, however they still have not won the war. To allow a person into a tavern with a colt hanging from his hip is ludicrous and like many "crazy" "feel-good laws," this one also will come to be rescinded. Until then, keep your beak down and your powder dry.