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Plain Dealer: License holders, concealed carry on the rise |
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
A few days ago a somewhat emotional article in the Plain Dealer implied that because someone used a gun in Cleveland to defend themselves the "whole debate" over concealed carry was re-ignited. Today, the Plain Dealer focused on what is more likely to happen due to the highly publicized self-defense shooting.
From today's Plain Dealer, Who's carrying a gun? Almost anyone may be
If anything, the author's choice of title reflects that the purpose of carrying a firearm concealed has finally been recognized.
Now, more than ever, there's a chance the people around you have guns.
They're armed as you walk through the aisles of supermarkets. Armed as you take your child on a walk. Armed in traffic as you drive to work.
Nearly 90,000 Ohioans have concealed-carry permits. Now the recent shooting by a permit holder of a 15-year-old robber, coupled with new gun laws, could drive more people to obtain permits, gun advocates and trainers say.
In recent days the Cleveland Plain Dealer has printed numerous stories and letters to the editor about firearms, concealed carry, and college carry. Finally, and for the most part, those articles have been surprisingly fair, balanced, and carry less knee jerk emotional rhetoric.
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