Comments on: Law abiding gun owners

By: emdfl

emdfl — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:55:55 +0000

The times would do whatever it could to scarify the statistic. I think the next time the daughter comes down I’ll run her through a CCW course. Maybe the son-in-law also. Gotta pump up those stats, heh.

By: Weer'd Beard

Weer'd Beard — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:36:38 +0000

The other day I saw somebody’s shirt ride up over their holster in the middle of Somerville Mass. There were lots of people around, but I think I’m the only one who noticed. And here I thought in an artsy square in an Uber-liberal town right on the Cambridge boarder, that I surely was the only one carrying.

I gotta say, I read about a lot of dog attacks. People need to think about more than two-legged predators when considering a defensive firearm.

By: Gregory Morris

Gregory Morris — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:00:31 +0000

Actually, 54,341 of those licenses are out-of-state… not sure if the SP Times took that into account. Not that it matters, because even if that 1:35 ratio remains constant, the state’s population grows at about 300k-400k per year. That still equals more normal, law-abiding citizens with concealed weapon permits.

Also, if you look at the statistics, you’ll see that there are generally surges in applications in the winter when a lot of the transient “snow birds” are here.