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Police nationwide stand
behind Second Amendment Rights
"In a recent poll,
85 percent of our 1,352 members favored right-to-carry."
Sgt. John J.
Johnson, president,
St. Louis Police Officers Association
"I lobbied against
the (concealed carry) law in 1993 and 1995 because I thought it would lead
to wholesaled armed conflict. That hasn’t happened. All the horror stories
I thought would come to pass didn’t happen. No bogeyman. I think it has
worked out well, and that says good things about the citizens who have
permits. I’m a convert."
Glenn White,
president, Dallas Police Association
"From a law
enforcement perspective, the licensing process has not resulted in problems
in the community from people arming themselves with concealed weapons."
Commissioner James
T. Moore,
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
"Some of the
public safety concerns (over right-to-carry) which we imagined or
anticipated a couple of years ago, to our pleasant surprise, have been
unfounded or mitigated."
Police
Major Bill Brown,
Fairfax County, Virginia
"The
facts are in and the record is clear: right-to-carry gives law
enforcement, their families and our communities real protection from
violent criminals.
James
J. Fortis, executive director,
Law Enforcement Alliance of America
"None
of our concerns have been borne out."
Hazard
police Chief Rod Maggard, president,
Kentucky Chiefs of Police Association
"Critics
of concealed carry argued that law-abiding citizens couldn’t be
trusted with a concealed weapon. But now the facts speak for
themselves – the law is working."
Sherif
David Williams
Tarrant County, Texas
"Anyone
who believes a self-protection firearm is not a deterrent to crime is
simply being unrealistic...I’ve not seen any problems with concealed
carry, either legal problems or inappropriate behavior, during the
four years we’ve had a concealed carry law in our state."
Lt.
Bill Booth
Oklahoma City PD
''The more good guys
there are out there with guns, the safer everybody is, including police
officers. Police officials are
telling outrageous lies when they say they fear blood running in the streets
(because of concealed weapons). They know crime rates have dropped in states
that permit concealed weapons.''
Lt. Harry Thomas
Cincinnati PD, Retired
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