15 Oct 2009
...Upon arrival on the scene, police saw a store employee standing in the middle of the store with a 9mm gun aimed at the burglary suspect, Richard Myers, 41. read more...
Good.
Maybe more people would act right if they knew they were going to get a gun in their face.
Guns, Concealed Weapons Permit, charleston,
My Concealed Weapons Permit came in the mail today (94 days after I sent my application). Evidently SLED is overwhelmed with permit applications and processing is delayed. 
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South Carolina Concealed Weapons Permit, SLED,
Mel and I are going to Biltmore for our 11th anniversary, and I checked into whether or not I would be able to carry concealed there. I asked the North Carolina Department of Justice if it's legal for CWP holders to carry at Biltmore since it is private property; They deferred to the Biltmore Police.
So, I emailed Biltmore and received this response from the Director of Police Services:
Thank you for your recent email inquiring about our policy on CWP holders carrying concealed on our property. For safety and security reasons we do not allow weapons of any kind on Biltmore Estate property. If you have any further questions concerning the matter feel free to contact me directly. Thanks again for your interest in Biltmore Estate and we hope you will find time be one of our guests in the future!
All The Best,
Larry Rankine, CPP
Director of Security & Police Services
(828) 225-1418 office
(828) 225-6186 fax
Why not? Nobody ever robs restaurants. Liquor stores, gas stations... you get your head blown off sticking up one of them. Restaurants on the other hand, you catch with their pants down. They're not expecting to get robbed.
May 21, 1998
Springfield, Ore. Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel.
April 20, 1999
Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting.
Dec. 6, 1999
Fort Gibson, Okla. Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School.
March 5, 2001
Santee, Calif. Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High School.
March 21, 2005
Red Lake, Minn. Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.
Oct. 3, 2006
Nickel Mines, Pa. 32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died.
April 16, 2007
Blacksburg, Va. A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.
Feb. 14, 2008
DeKalb, Illinois Gunman killed five students and then himself, and wounded 17 more when he opened fire on a classroom at Northern Illinois University. The gunman, Stephen P. Kazmierczak, was identified as a former graduate student at the university in 2007.
“Law enforcement agencies and personnel have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others; instead their duty is to preserve the peace and arrest law breakers for the protection of the general public.”
—Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice, 376 S.E. 2nd 247 (N.C. App. 1989
“...a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen...”
—Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981)
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So says Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center.
In response to the legislation currently in the US House of Representatives that seeks to allow nation-wide Concealed Weapon Permit reciprocity, Ms. Rand spouted off this propaganda piece, which cites some biased studies demonstrating gun violence by concealed weapon permit holders.
People Licensed to Carry Concealed Handguns Have Committed 51 Homicides Ending in Criminal Charges or the Suicide of the Permit Holder Over the Last Two Years—Victims Include Seven Law Enforcement Officers
Washington —- The idea of giving college students the right to carry concealed weapons on campus may seem counterintuitive after last year's Virginia Tech massacre. But the proposal is deadly serious, said young men and women from colleges across the country who attended the first Students for Concealed Carry on Campus National Conference on Friday. Their movement was galvanized by the 2007 shootings, said Michael Guzman, president of the group and a senior at Texas State University. The issue is not keeping guns out of the hands of college students, he said, but whether properly licensed students should be able to take their concealed weapons on campus, just as they can take them nearly everywhere else. "There shouldn't be an imaginary boundary beyond which you can't defend yourself," said Matt Mesang, 21, a senior at Florida Atlantic University. Billy Atwell, a 22-year-old senior at East Carolina University, said he is not against gun-free zones where they can be enforced with metal detectors, such as in airports and in public buildings, he said. But that's not the case on college campuses, he said. "Virginia Tech was a gun-free zone," he said. "But you can't keep guns off a campus. What you have are unenforceable gun laws." Guzman said 11 colleges already allow students and faculty to carry concealed weapons on campus: nine public universities in Utah, Colorado State University and Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia. Since the Virginia Tech shootings, 15 state legislatures have taken up the issue, he said. Although none has enacted laws to allow concealed weapons to be carried on campus, the "introductions were a huge win," he said. Why shouldn't CWP holders be allowed to carry in school? Every night that I'm in class, the thought crosses my mind that we would all be freakin' sitting ducks if someone came in there blasting. People who shoot up schools know they have easy pickings because guns aren't allowed there, and most classrooms only have one door. If we could carry in class, then it would probably cut down on some of that crap. At least if someone tried it on a class where people were armed, they wouldn't get much further, and lives would be saved.Students lobby for concealed weapons
Most colleges are 'gun-free' zones
Cox Washington Bureau
Published on: 08/02/08
Eliyahu (store owner) said Pope confronted him, "shoulder bumped" him and then put his hand on Eliyahu's neck and shoved him before the group left the store. That incident was caught on the store's security system.
Eliyahu said he immediately called 911 dispatch and followed the family outside to get their license plate number.
Eliyahu said Pope threatened him in the parking lot and charged at him, prompting Eliyahu to pull his gun from his pants and he shouted at Pope to leave the property. Eliyahu said Pope charged at him and he shot Pope.
Eliyahu had a permit to carry a concealed weapon and testified he'd carried the gun for about a year for protection before the incident.
One of the best commercials ever.
"How did you get so many Qs?"
"Don't worry about it."
"Tai, why are you getting a Concealed Weapons Permit if you don't even have a handgun?"
"Don't worry about it."
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