The vast majority of concealed carry holders never commit a crime with a firearm. We had a thread around here a year or so ago that cited statistics from TX and FL supporting that notion. IIRC, the favorable numbers were compelling.

Lawful, concealed carry folks are overwhelmingly responsible.

It is far easier for the libs to pass a feel good law that punishes/controls the good 99% of concealed carry folks for the actions of the 1% than to address that 1% and the criminals and mentally ill.

If Joe Says it, it Must be True. Like 500,000 Jobs a Month.
 

http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA5TMD5G0


lol Talk about bassackward reasoning!

Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Arizona Sen. John McCain probably would have beat his boss in the 2008 presidential election had the economy not collapsed.

Biden's comment about McCain and President Barack Obama came during the opening dinner of an annual forum among the Red Rocks of Sedona in northern Arizona. He and McCain, a Republican, touched on the gun control debate following the Newtown shootings and the bombings in Boston, but made no mention of Syria. Just as the night came to a close, Biden turned to the grueling nature of presidential campaigns.

"The truth of the matter is, Barack knows it, I know, had the economy not collapsed around your ears, John, in the middle of literally _ as things were moving _ I think you probably would have won," Biden said. "But it would have been incredibly, incredibly, incredibly close. You inherited a really difficult time."

The forum is part of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, a program formed by McCain as a way to debate foreign affairs. This year's theme for the Sedona Forum is "How can we promote freedom and democracy effectively?"

Rather than a discussion between McCain and Biden, the two sat on stage together with McCain posing questions to his former Democratic adversary on gun control and whether background checks are necessary, human rights abuses at the hands of the United States and the recent bombings at the Boston marathon.

McCain and Biden both said that despite their disagreements, they've never lost respect for one another.

On gun control, Biden said it's never been a simple issue, but that Congress has miscalculated how deeply the public feels about it and has failed to stand up to groups like the National Rifle Association, particularly after the shootings in Newtown. He said the public is looking to Congress to be mature enough to figure out a way to diminish the chance it will happen again.

"For the first time ever, you have people who are for gun safety, for increasing background checks," Biden said. "Two out of three of them say it will be a major determining factor in how I vote. That's the political dynamic that has changed. So I think we're going to get this anyway. I think this will pass before the year is out, within this Congress."In responding to a question about the vulnerabilities of the United States when it comes to terrorist attacks, Biden said that the radical, lone wolves have been the most difficult to catch. But he said America shouldn't change its values, how it treats people abroad or people coming into the United States. Nor should America adopt policies that keep people from freely walking down the street without being frisked by police or carrying identification cards, he said.

"The moment we change any of those things, that's when they win," Biden said. "Because they don't see how you can have a society that is not ordered and regimented and wedded to an orthodoxy that is theirs. That's the point that bothers them most about us."

McCain followed up by saying that those who tortured U.S. prisoners, in violation of the Geneva convention, should be exposed and be held responsible to prevent repeated abuses.

Biden agreed with the man once held as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. He said the internal debate in Congress and at the White House is how things got to that point, but it's not yet resolved.

"I think the only way you excise the demons is you acknowledge what happened, straightforward," Biden said.

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Hope the gangs and cartel folks get that memo - what a crock of shite.

Just another "ban" that we will someday get around to throwing out like Heller...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo

I hope to see more of this guys PSA's.

Calif. law takes effect on microstamping guns
 

It will be interesting to see how and if this helps law enforcement.....or if anyone gets framed because someone picked up some casing and dropped them at a crime scene.

Several states have required sample bullets be submitted for years, and to my knowledge, they haven't solved any crimes with them so far.

TR

IL House passes initial carry measure
 

LINK to story here.
Long row to hoe.

Thanks Badger.

IMO, we need good laws not strong (or weak) laws. Unfortunately it is the bad laws/policy that Gov. Quinn and his ilk have advocated that caused the very dangerous safety issues in that state, not to mention the Supreme Court ruling against them.

IL Senate Update: Passed 45-12
 

Ostensibly enough to override a veto.

LINK to Reuters article here.

One snippet from a similar article in OutdoorHub (eZine):
And privacy violated & permit information is leaked to the media in 3 - 2 - ...

Yup... The PDRM (Peoples Dimocratic Republic of Maryland) has a program....and no, I've not heard of any cases where the imaging was attributed.


Meanwhile... The petition drive to put recent gun laws on the ballot here failed to gather sufficient signatures....

The "rest" of MD is not drinking the Kool-Aide
 

Like many other places...the Libo-urbanite-dims in a small geographical area cause the rest of the state harm.

Full article here

Oh...and that O'mullet gastropod...he's got his starry eyes fixed on D.C.