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Law-abiding Citizens Packing Guns: A Benefit or a Risk? Law-abiding Citizens Packing Guns: A Benefit or a Risk? Friday night October 1983, my girlfriend was shopping
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Law-abiding Citizens Packing Guns: A Benefit or a Risk?
Friday night October 1983, my girlfriend was shopping at the Pasadena Mall in California. She was buying those last minute items needed for her wedding the next day. Around 9:00 pm, she left the Mall and walked the underground parking garage towards her car. At midnight her frantic parents and fiancé received the dreaded call from the Pasadena Police Department; my girlfriend had been attacked in the garage, robbed, raped, and stabbed twenty times to her death. Would this scenario have ended differently, had my girlfriend been packing a gun?
How many times have you walked to your car late at night, alone, especially in an underground parking garage? Imagine as you walk to the car, you hear a noise. Instantly your brain races to locate where the noise came from; your heart starts pounding, your palms become sweaty, and the hairs on the back of your neck raise up. The pace at which you were walking begins to increase; all your senses are on full alert. When you arrive at the vehicle, your hands are trembling as you try to open the car door. Suddenly, a person appears from nowhere, grabs you and secures their hand over your mouth and whispers in your ear "don't scream". I'm sure at that moment a number of scenarios are racing through your mind. Am I going to be raped, robbed or worse yet killed? This scenario and the death of my girlfriend years ago, has entered my mind many times. I've had to walk alone through the deserted underground parking garage to my car, late at night after working at the hospital. For this reason I have chosen to bring to your attention the need for the CCW law, better known as the Carry Concealed Weapon law. There are many reasons why I believe this law should be implemented nation wide; without having to obtain a permit, without a fee, without any kind of waiting period and only an expedient background check.
The first reason we should be able...
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