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Since we cannot disarm the criminals, I believe that trained, vetted, honest people deserve the opportunity to protect themselves. I did not feel burdened that, at 16 hours, Illinois requires the most concealed carry training of any state. I am appalled that Missouri does not even require a permit.
I think applicants should have to go through the“shoot-don’t shoot” interactive video simulations used by police. I’m a veteran of several such sessions that taught me more about use of deadly force than any 100 hours in a classroom. |
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shootergdv
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| If we also require 16 hours of intensive training(that you have to PAY for) on the Constitution and Bill of Rights before exercising the RIGHT to vote, maybe I'd be OK with 16 paid hours of firearms instruction before I exercise my RIGHT to carry a gun ! |
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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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