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WI: Milwaukee’s Police Chief on Open-Carry Gun Laws
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A month before Milwaukee erupted in flames and gunfire last weekend, the city’s chief of police, Ed Flynn, talked to The Marshall Project’s Simone Weichselbaum about Wisconsin’s permissive gun laws, which include the right to openly carry firearms. Flynn pointed out that Milwaukee police seize more guns per capita than any other major city — including Chicago, where gun violence has gotten much more attention. |
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Note to Chief Flynn: The Bill of Rights doesn't exist to make your job easier, it exists to make sure you can't impose regulations that attenuate fundamental rights.
To call Wisconsin's gun laws "lunacy" is tantamount to calling the Second Amendment to the Constitution "lunacy".
It plainly prohibits you from squelching the natural right to arms; the words "shall not be infringed" are self-explanatory.
If you can't accept that, perhaps you shouldn't be in such a position of power. |
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