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Gun Control & RKBA

Atypical Liberal

(5,412 posts)

16. It would be hard to get much safer than CCW permit holders already are.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:27 PM

Sep 2012

To take Ayoob's advanced handgun defense course you will be required to have a BACKGROUND check and a personal CHARACTER letter. If all CCW teachers required that for their courses our streets would be safer. No CCW class, no permit. Perhaps this is also an idea that could be used by gun dealers and sellers too.

Considering how infrequently CCW permit holders are currently involved in crime - any kind of crime - it seems unlikely that additional permit requirements would make much of a difference.

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Massad Ayoob on what to do after a self defense shooting [View all] Reasonable_Argument Sep 2012 OP

To take Ayoob's advanced handgun defense course safeinOhio Sep 2012 #1

How would our streets be safer? glacierbay Sep 2012 #2

There have not been any drive by's in my town. safeinOhio Sep 2012 #3

In Texas CHLs can be shown to save more innocent lives than they take. GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #4

I believe I have a hell of a lot more experience than you do glacierbay Sep 2012 #5

negligent discharge and safeinOhio Sep 2012 #8

And a back-ground check and a character reference will stop these things? PavePusher Sep 2012 #11

I like what you started there but.. Callisto32 Sep 2012 #15

Sometimes, one attempts sublety as a method. PavePusher Sep 2012 #17

I hope they got their permits revoked. glacierbay Sep 2012 #12

They already do this to get a CCW Union Scribe Sep 2012 #13

Wrong. Clames Sep 2012 #14

It would be hard to get much safer than CCW permit holders already are. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #16

Excellent advice. N/T GreenStormCloud Sep 2012 #6

+1 and I would add DWC Sep 2012 #7

I can say this much with out even having seen the video Trunk Monkey Sep 2012 #9

With out question some of the best advice on this subject I've heard Trunk Monkey Sep 2012 #10