I seem to be outnumbered here on this one. I voted no because there are too many people inexperienced with guns who would carry concealed and not be smart about it. They would not always use a holster, not use bullets meant for defense(meaning over penetration and possible injury of other people around), limited knowledge of their gun could mean they are a less than ideal shot also resulting in injury to others. And with no training on how to properly draw could alert the criminal they have a gun before they can unholster and make sure the weapon is ready to go (probably don't make sure it is always locked and loaded with safety off) meaning Mr./Mrs. bad person shoots them first. Scares me to picture some kid who was given his dads gun trying to be cool and showing it off in public. Too many accidents waiting to happen in my opinion. I turn 21 in less than 3 months and plan on getting a .22 pistol to learn my basics and gain enough confidence to make difficult shots before even getting a ccw pistol or training. My $.02 take it or leave it
Hehe yes indeed you are
Here's the deal. We have a constitutional right to carry weapons and asking the government for permission in order to exercise my rights makes those rights nothing but privileges. Then on top of asking permission they charge us a $100 fee to exercise said right along with mandating costly training that not everyone can afford. This comes pretty close to the Jim Crow laws don't ya think? Poll taxes in order to exercise your right to vote, Intelligence test to exercise your right to vote (all aimed towards poor blacks). In the same way the govt is discriminating against the poor and discouraging many from carrying firearms here in Nebraska today. This is one of the main reasons why I think our CCW numbers are so low here.......cost. And many of my gun owning friends have told me that is one of the main reasons they have not sought the permit.
In short........the Nebraska Handgun Permit Act really is a violation of our constitutional rights, however it is an improvement over the conditions we endured before this law was passed, so we took what we could get..........for now.
To address some of the points you raised, some states don't even let you own "self defense" bullets (hollow points). New Jersey would be one that comes to mind and if i remember correctly its a felony just to possess these. Obviously those laws are wrong, but my point is bullets are bullets. They are dangerous no matter what, over penetration is less of an issue if you can't even make every shot hit the target which police forces are well known for. And I do believe that several agencies out in the northeast states don't use hollow points but round nose but i could be wrong on that. Same thing I think is the case in all of Europe and most of the world. Again, please correct me if i'm wrong.
Even our well trained ex security guard Walgreen's hero (God bless him) fired 8 rounds and made 4 hit the gunman, course we could say 5 since an additional round went into the shotgun barrel, but regardless 3 bullets went to whatever was behind the bad guy.
As i have said in another post we need to recognize people's rights and allow no permit carry. If people break the law and hurt someone then we should punish them, but leave people alone that are minding their own business and not harming anyone by carrying concealed. To mitigate the accidents society needs to promote gun education/safety from an early age (including stuff like Eddie Eagle in Elemenatary), making Gun Safety 101 mandatory in High School and College/University. That's what I believe, take it or leave it
