12 Defensive Gun Uses Show That Armed Citizens Make Communities Safer

[Dashinka 24,480]

Hmm, guns do have a purpose.

 

12 Defensive Gun Uses Show That Armed Citizens Make Communities Safer

 

As the nation continues to reel from historic violent crime spikes, many gun control activists turn reflexively to the same “bumper sticker slogan” policy “solutions” that fail to address real problems while often undermining the Second Amendment rights of peaceable citizens.

 

Last week, some Hartford, Connecticut, residents made headlines for taking a different approach. Instead of demanding that their fellow citizens abandon their rights to armed self-defense, they announced that they would henceforth start exercising those rights in a public manner to enhance community safety.

 

These residents say they will soon start conducting “legal, armed community patrols” on a regular basis, with the goal of preventing gun violence in a city experiencing homicide totals not seen in several decades. Organizers told reporters that patrol members will be trained to calmly de-escalate situations when possible and emphasized that they won’t openly carry firearms once a new state law prohibiting the practice goes into effect.

 

The Hartford Police Department, to its credit, has indicated that these community patrols won’t face pushback from officers “as long as they are operating within the law,” acknowledging that these citizens “have Second Amendment rights like the rest of us.”

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/07/12-defensive-gun-uses-show-armed-citizens-make-communities-safer/

[Mike E 11,739]

18 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

when possible and emphasized that they won’t openly carry firearms once a new state law prohibiting the practice goes into effect.

 

18 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

acknowledging that these citizens “have Second Amendment rights like the rest of us.”

I am confused.

[Dashinka 24,480]

3 hours ago, Mike E said:

 

I am confused.

I agree that seemed a bit confusing.  It sounds like CT passed a new law prohibiting open carry, but I believe they still allow concealed carry with a permit.  It is all "progress".

[Mike E 11,739]

Oh ok. I can accept concealed carry as an alternative. 
 

When in the U.S., I always presume everyone else is carrying. That forces me to project a calmer demeanor than is my nature.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

When I read articles like this -- or, more often, those about venues trying to restrict or ban -- the thought keeps repeating, "What part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand?"