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Two proposals are on Monday's agenda of the Joint Committee on Judiciary and Public Policy:
1. Repeal of the law that requires a person to obtain a license to carry a handgun in Indiana.
2. Increase the number of law enforcement officers employed by local units of government in Indiana.
The interim legislative study committee should reject the first measure. But if it doesn't, committee members must approve the second. A recommendation for the General Assembly to eliminate the licensing requirement to carry a handgun puts Indiana law enforcement officers at increased risk. |
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“I feel this is a necessary tool to protect our officers on the streets, to have this licensing procedure[.]”
This red herring is a non sequitur.
The guns in dangerous hands are already out there, they always WILL be out there, and no permitting process affects that fact AT ALL.
Therefore, 'officer', either a person is going to try to shoot you or they aren't. Criminals will. Law-abiding folks will not. Since you wouldn't know who has a permit or not until after you stopped them and approached the vehicle, your safety doesn't depend on that permit, it depends on whether or not you've stopped a violent crook.
You can argue 'til you're blue in the face, but you can't overcome that logic. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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