True North

Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer took the Ohio concealed carry class. And he notices something I’ve seen from at least the few journalists who’ve bothered to learn the topic:

From what I can tell, legal concealed carry is nothing like the anti-gun crowd made it sound when Kentucky and Ohio passed laws in 1999 and 2004. There are no cowboys. No wild shootouts. No blood in the gutters, as gun-banners predicted. Just law-abiding adults who want to exercise their Second Amendment right to self-defense.

And this one - a lesson that’d seem to have eluded most of Minnesota’s remaining concealed carry opponents:

If every gun owner took a class like this, we’d all be safer. But meth-heads, crack junkies and street muggers don’t take classes. They don’t get permits or certificates like the one Lengle gave me Sunday. They just grab a “nine” and use it against defenseless victims.

(Via Rosenberg)

Cross-posted at Shot In The Dark.