Packing Heat! YOUR Utah Right! Wing Nut

In Utah, you don't need a REASON to have a Concealed Weapon Permit.  But you do need to pass a background check, and a class that tells you when and where you can use it.

Interestingly enough?  You don't have to show that you know how to shoot the damn thing!  So a lot of States, based on that, won't honor the Utah CCW Permit.

But, under our current law, if you choose to wear your sidearm in plain view of everyone, that's OK.  So, Joe Sixpack who has a pistol, can strap that sucker on, and as long as everyone can see it, he's good to go.

Sounds like a Townes Van Zant song:  "Pancho wore his gun outside his vest, for all the honest world to fear..."

And, "fear" really is the operative word here.  More on that later.

And now, some State Senator has introduced a bill that says that if you can carry openly?  Well, you don't have to pass a background check, or take a class.  You can just put on a coat cause it's cold and presto!  You are carrying a concealed weapon.

WTF?

Do we not want to regulate who, why, or where ANYONE can carry a gun in this state?  Do we really want to make carrying instant death as easy to do as putting your smart phone in a belt holder?

I wish our Legislature were smarter than our phones.  But, never going to happen.

I don't want to live in Dodge City, circa 1870!  That is NOT the society that I think ANY of us want to live in, any more.  This is total, lunacy.

There was a guy on the news tonight, who showed up to lobby for this law, who brought his 18 year old kid, wearing a gun OUTSIDE his clothing, while he wore a concealed weapon under his jacket.  To prove a point.

Well, I've been retired almost 7 years now from law enforcement.  Maybe the laws have changed.  I admit, I haven't bothered to keep up.  But when I was a Cop, anyone who gave an 18 year old kid a HANDGUN, was committing a crime by putting minor in control of a gun!

You could give your 12 year old a rifle, or a shotgun.  Your 16 year old could pass a hunter safety course, and deer hunt.  With a rifle.

But you could NOT, under any circumstances, give your under the age of 21 kid a HANDGUN and ammunition, and let him carry it around!

And instead of being put in jail, this prick is interviewed on the news!

OK, people, it's time to talk some sense about,,,  Oh what the fuck.  No one in Utah listens to sense anyway.  Why do I bother?  They all believe that some 19th century con man found golden plates and interpreted them with a rock in a hat.  And there are millions of them that have been giving them 10% of their money ever since.  Greatest con ever.

So now, without any training, shooting test, background check, you want anyone in this state to be able to carry a concealed weapon?  Cause you fear, what?  That the President is coming for your guns, and you want, "states rights"?

I had to provide my son's birth certificate, and his Social Security Card, just to get his drivers license in this state.  He's on his SECOND Passport.  At age 16.  The ULTIMATE ID in he whole world.  But Utah won't accept that.

But if you want to carry a gun?  Just WEAR one.  Then put on a coat.

They hate the Federal Government so much, that my son's Passport is not good enough to prove he's a Citizen.  But if you BOUGHT a gun?  Well you MUST BE!  Strap that fucker on!

I'm kind of hoping, in my reptilian brain, that this stupid law passes.  So when some illegal alien, who, of course got is gun illegally (because of FEDERAL LAW) shoots someone, can say, "Hey, under Utah law, you CAN'T prevent me from carrying a gun, concealed or otherwise!"

And Margret Dayton's head will explode.