The recent theft of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowsi’s personal pistol from his car points up the danger posed by laws that increasingly restrict the places where a concealed pistol license holder can carry a pistol. One Washington resident in 25 has passed the FBI background check and has a CPL. Like off-duty police officers, they are certified good guys and gals who are much less likely than the average citizen to commit a crime. When they go into a post office or PTA meeting at the local school, they have to remove the pistol from their person (where there is a near zero chance of it being used harmfully) and leave it in the car where it is very likely to be stolen by a felon (by definition) who is almost certain to use it in a crime or sell it to someone who will.
People, in their zeal to keep guns out of schools (and everywhere else, if they had their way), aid and abet violent crime by making the very guns they are so afraid of easily accessible to any punk with a rock heavy enough to break a car window and a screwdriver to force open a glove compartment.
John R. Alberti
Everett
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