No one can really doubt the dangers of the concealed weapon. Its potential to harm and destroy abounds with factual evidence in our current everyday life. The physical and mental repercussions from its discharge has a lasting, lifelong effect.
Supporters of a particular type of concealed carry look to the Constitution of the United States, especially the Bill of Rights, for legitimate support and validation for its use. Most users, however, need no written justification for the fast draw of the weapon and are ever ready to aim it at a moment’s notice, and against any perceived threat.
When one is threatened by others in today’s society, one has the duty and individual right to limit the threat coming from the offender. After all, the freedom to react to a danger is a constitutionally guaranteed freedom. And forget the inane reminders that with any freedom come corresponding responsibilities. Isn’t it more advantageous to get off the first shot?
The most commonly used concealed carry can be transported easily and without effort. Its placement within the folds of one’s body can pass undetected by the most scrutinizing of eyes. Because of the ease of hiding, it need not be disassembled. The concealed carry, after all, must be immediately ready to all possible perceived threats and injuries emanating from others.
The projectiles of the most commonly carried weapon are even more concealable and their caliber is only limited by the shooters fast agility to load and discharge. The recoil of the weapon and the acid smell of the missiles are often sensory pleasures to the carrier.
The concealed is carried by everyone. Each of us can be the shooter, and most of us have pulled the trigger. Each of us can be the victim, and most of us have been once placed in the sights of the weapon.
The concealed carry most dangerous in our fast eroding civil society is the tongue. Shooting from the lip is becoming fast becoming the weapon of choice. Its projectiles are words that can bully, malign, embarrass, humilate and degrade, and the resulting wounds can be as deep as those caused by metal encased missiles.
Often the victim is unarmed and unexpecting and with no intention of returning fire. In some cases, the combatants may engage in verbal dueling. Whatever the confrontation, someone is going to be hurt.
Sometimes a silencer can be adapted to the most commonly used concealed carry. It is called the printed word and can be just as ruinous and injurious to the recipient as the oral discharge. A written projectile can be a deadly silence.
The Constitution’s First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech reinforces our need to think before we speak or write. It forces us to remember that a spoken or written word is not easily retrived or forgiven in a civil society.
We must also remember that when we are unsuccessful and failing in our attempts to harm others with our spoken or printed words, we may be tempted to turn to other forms of concealed weaponry.
Thank you for your creative writing. Your brain is a fertile ground for pure fiction.
Those folks in fear of guns being carried by Kooks forget that after the initial carnage of the year or two implementing concealed carry of guns…. There is a huge windfall benefit…
When you give the gun nuts the right to carry concealed weapons… if they screw-up not only do they give up the right to carry a concealed weapon…. They are prohibited from ever again legally owning a gun. Why because Convicted felons can’t own guns and if you broke the law with your concealed gun that would be a felony.
So what we need to do is give the hard core gun nuts exactly what they are asking for… i.e. The lawful right to bare arms… concealed ones in this case.
Then when the stupid ones do what they are certain to do…. illegally discharge or pull out their little hand gun, they will be found guilty of a felony and then we can take away all their guns,
This leaves only law abiding citizens “legally owning guns” and after several years we will finally get all guns out of the hands of wacko’s that have no business owning a gun…
Plus when the dust settles… Joe Criminal won’t know if Law-abiding-citizen are packin a six-gun and hell yes that will deter criminal activity…. + the irresponsible gun-oweners will forfeit their rights to any gun ownership when they do something stupid with their concealed hand gun they won’t be able to resists carrying…
What a perfect storm…. Give the gun nuts what they want…. Maybe a few shooting but that will quickly take care of itself because those foolishly using concealed hand guns will give up the right to own any guns…. what a win\win
Denny, one is more likely to be shot by a cop than by a concealed carry permit holder. Plus, there’ll never be any shortage of idiots. It’s like swatting mosquitos. Sure, you killed one, there’s three trillion left in the county.
“We must also remember that when we are unsuccessful and failing in our attempts to harm others with our spoken or printed words, we may be tempted to turn to other forms of concealed weaponry.”
The writer of this editorial needs to face his/her fears by being taught how to safely use a firearm. Statistically speaking cars kill more people than firearms, should the government outlaw cars? It would be soooo refreshing if liberals had even an ounce of commonsense. This thought process is right up there with the governmental regulation of Drano because someone used it as a weapon. How about knives? It this really what we are paying out representatives to do? Following the author’s misguided reasoning, since bad drivers cause more deaths than firearms deaths, should the driving rights of all individuals be eliminated? Seems like this author would support such ludicrousness based on their thought process and lack of commonsense.
The trouble is, all the so called shootings you talk about never happened. They don’t exist. If they did, we’d have heard about them. The only shootings we hear about are the ones by leftists that shoot prominent politicians. They then make drastic changes in gun laws based on the emotions generated by a single incident. James Brady, JFK, Giffords, etc. If a CCW permitted person had been nearby, he might have helped the situation, none of them were caused by CCW permit holders and they practically never are. Your manufactured notion the concealed carry causes so many problems is journalistic malpractice. But the truth and the left are seldom associated now days.