KLRU
Etiquette Won't Save Lives
RECEIVED Wed., Dec. 30, 2015
Dear Editor,
In response to Susan Cook's letter "New Etiquette for Firearms" [Feedback, Dec. 25]:
Susan comes to the (all too common) conclusion that relaxing the limitations on where, and how, CHL holders can carry their handguns will result in numbers of careless people "playing Cowboy or Soldier," firing their weapons recklessly among the general public. She asks CHL holders to leave our guns at home.
The new law only allows licensed CHL holders (all of whom have voluntarily subjected themselves to a background check) to carry openly.
I won't open carry because I don't want to make myself the obvious first target of a criminal shooter. However, in the event Ms. Cook is ever in a mass shooting situation, she will pray for someone like me to be near, and she will pray that I did not leave my gun at home on that day.
In response to Susan Cook's letter "New Etiquette for Firearms" [Feedback, Dec. 25]:
Susan comes to the (all too common) conclusion that relaxing the limitations on where, and how, CHL holders can carry their handguns will result in numbers of careless people "playing Cowboy or Soldier," firing their weapons recklessly among the general public. She asks CHL holders to leave our guns at home.
The new law only allows licensed CHL holders (all of whom have voluntarily subjected themselves to a background check) to carry openly.
I won't open carry because I don't want to make myself the obvious first target of a criminal shooter. However, in the event Ms. Cook is ever in a mass shooting situation, she will pray for someone like me to be near, and she will pray that I did not leave my gun at home on that day.
Rand McDonald
