http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/ed%20fund%20amicus%20brief%20mcdonald%20v.%20chicago.pdf

http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/EFSGV%20Heller%20Brief.pdf

Please expand on this quote if you would:

“Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence urged tighter gun control laws and insisted that “the government must have a monopoly on force” to maintain domestic security.

Thank you.

http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/

Lott was also caught impersonating a female college student on Amazon to praise his published work:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2006/The-Shootout/

Is is public knowledge that our organization’s name was the National Coalition to Ban Handguns up until the late 80s, and that we advocated for a national ban on handguns, with several exceptions (which you refer to above).

But that is not something we have advocated for in the last 20 years. And with the D.C. v. Heller decision by the Supreme Court, handgun bans are not even on the table as a policy option anymore.

All that said, just about every other industrialized democracy in the world has passed very tight restrictions on handguns without banning firearms altogether. The “all or nothing” scenario typically presented by the gun lobby (to avoid substantive discussion about policy) is a false choice.

See the following:

Our goal is to not allow anybody to buy a handgun. In the meantime, we think there ought to be strict licensing and regulation. Ultimately, that may mean it would require court approval to buy a handgun.
Michael K. Beard

The best way to prevent gun violence is to ban handguns.
Michael K. Beard
Letters to the Editor, Wall Street Journal.

It is our aim to ban the manufacture and sale of handguns to private individuals . . . the coalition’s emphasis is to keep handguns out of private possession — where they do the most harm.
Recruiting flyer, “The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence”

The goal of CSGV is the orderly elimination of most handguns and assault weapons from the United States. CSGV seeks to ban handguns and assault weapons from importation, manufacture, sale, transfer, ownership, posession and use by the general, American public. Reasonable exceptions would be made for the police, military, security officers, and gun clubs where the guns are secured on the club’s premises. Gun dealers would also be permitted to trade in antique and collectable weapons kept and sold in inoperable condition. Hunting weapons, such as shotguns and rifles would un affected by these bans,as those weapons do not pose a large threat to the American public in comparason to handguns and assault weapons.

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Recruiting flyer (spelling errors intentionally left in)

We’ll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily – given the political realities – very modest. We’ll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53

And my personal favorite: “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.” – Barrack Hussein Obama

At least be honest.

So according to you, 30,000 lives are lost via guns each year (including suicides) and the DOJ recognizes “only” 80,000 uses of guns in a defensive situation.

That looks to me like a net positive of 50,000 lives potentially saved each year. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that if you actually cared about saving lives you would be for gun use by law-abiding citizens?

Regardless, a fatal flaw in all of those statistics against concealed carry is that criminals will carry with or without having a concealed carry license. They will commit their crimes just the same. All that preventing legal citizens from concealed carrying will accomplish is to make them defenseless against these criminals. Law abiding citizens are the only ones prevented from concealed carrying by these laws–the ones who can save lives.

Yes the system isn’t perfect, and that’s why we need to enforce it more strictly–we need better records and accountability where criminal records are concerned. Everyone agrees on that–in an ideal world, those with mental illnesses or criminal records wouldn’t be able to get cars, chainsaws, hammers, etc with which are also used to kill with.

Regarding my comment, please do tell me if you are still against concealed carry on campus and why if you still are? If you are, then in all honesty I do not know how you can sleep knowing that you support the “gun free” zones that have prevented so many lives from being saved.

I love that passive-aggressiveness!

http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogger.html

The fact that it is students is interesting to me.

I saw a video not too long ago about students in Washington arming themelves and i noticed they not only going to carry the guns loose without hostlers* but they were intending on forming armed patrols which is borderline illegal and in most cases will remove their claim of self defense as they put themselves in an avoidable situation. That means murder charges.

A good argument for required training of conceal carry permit holders.

*(Safety issue, one for others as they may snag clothing on the trigger and the gun may go off, i know this unlikely with the trigger on a glock requiring both parts to move in unison and also to themselves as drawing a gun without a proper holster reduces draw speed and increases the likelihood of the assaliant rushing them)

Here’s an interesting comment from Chase Jennings (“John” and “John M.” on this Comment thread) on the SCCC Facebook Discussion thread:

“I wonder how these people who are against us sleep at night…or maybe some people just don’t own a conscience or common sense?”