Comments on: Military Members Boost Concealed Weapons Licenses

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:41:41 +0000

I have a concealed carry permit and rarely carry my weapon. I feel safer collectively, because I know that on days that I chose not to carry my gun, there are other people on that same day that did carry a weapon. Guns in citizens hands make us all safer. What scares me is the people that want America to look like the European Union…unarmed and unsafe from criminals or the government. They find safety in RUNNING.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:34:22 +0000

REGARDING:
” I respectfully ask that you redact the uncalled for statement “I feel some individuals merely use it as an excuse for unusual behavior.”.”

Even if I personally heard one brag about that being the way he got his permits approved?

“Every day you read where somebody like you got killed by a Vietnam veteran like me for nonsense just like this. They’d put me in a nuthouse for a while, but you’d still be in that cold, dark grave.”

I respectfully decline.

David for reality, respectfully

By: Casual Observer

Casual Observer — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:06:42 +0000

@ Les Bridges:

With all due respect to my Brothers-in-Arms.

The original question remains – does some rhetoric “cause those who really need help to avoid asking for help” and qualify them to carry a deadly weapon? Who makes the call as to how PTSD affects an individual?

A case in point, who let the ex-service member slip through the cracks and kill Chris Kyle (the “American Sniper?) How many other scenarios have we read of where a person, military or not, has blamed some abhorrent occurrence on some past event. PTSD…..it is real….is it a disqualifying factor? Just a question.

By: Barry Hirsh

Barry Hirsh — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:08:48 +0000

In other words, the usual caterwauling from the usual anti-Constitution leftist suspects.

They seem to think their unpatriotic vision of America is widely supported when the exact opposite is true.

By: Chris in Molino

Chris in Molino — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:34:13 +0000

Forget concealed carry, look at the crime stats of states with “open carry” since they have done so. However, Florida would never do that. Besides, LEO hates concealed carry much less open carry. Just look at how they treat people in open carry states. Good upstanding folks. Plenty of people on YouTube wanting to show the big deal they make even after checking everything and everyone. At a Steak n Shake there were 16 open carry family members who all denied showing identification. LEO tried to get the mngr. to throw them out but he was a supporter. Hoorah for the Second Amendment.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:56:07 +0000

So that is where all the road rage and murders are coming from.

By: Sedition

Sedition — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:25:35 +0000

I still have heard no valid reason why I should have to not only ask permission , but PAY for as well, a right that is already guaranteed against government interference in the Bill of Rights. How many people here have to ask permission and pay to go to church, have an opinion, prevent illegal search and seizure, remain silent when cops go on fishing expeditions, etc….?

By: sam

sam — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:49:36 +0000

as a viet vet a lot of us came home with ptsd and lived with it. we adjusted, got jobs , got married and had families. there was no diagnosed ptsd at that time. i knew i had changed and people who had known me before i enlisted knew it. war does that. move on.

By: Les Bridges

Les Bridges — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:42:11 +0000

Until you have been involved in a firefight you will never know what these men and women go through mentally.

Until you’ve low crawled under a spray of the enemies’ hot lead I respectfully ask that you redact the uncalled for statement “I feel some individuals merely use it as an excuse for unusual behavior.”.

All this sort of rhetoric does is cause those who really need help to avoid asking for help.

By: Casual Observer

Casual Observer — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:14:21 +0000

There are several disqualifying areas in regard to a person obtaining a concealed weapons permit. Some of these are related to mental health.

If a service member, or any person, has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Distress (PTSD,) are they subject to being denied a carry permit?

PTSD is a legitimate problem in many cases, but, I feel some individuals merely use it as an excuse for unusual behavior.