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I don't really think such a bill would make a big differenence one way or the other. How many people would exercise their right if it passed? Currently registered/legal gun owners would probably do so, but is John Q. Public going to run out and jump through the hoops just to have a gun on his hip? I have no problem with the bill, provided the safeguards are in check, but I don't see it being a deterrent or making it easier on the police. A concealed weapon is just that, concealed. So it has a much lesser chance of deterring if the bad guy can't see it. Sure, at least now he has to consider the possiblity, but desperate people do desperate things and I don't think a concealed weapon will change it, all that much.

Think about a carjacking or a mugging or robbery. The primary advantage isn't the perp's weapon, but the element of surprise. The weapon forces compliance once the attacker has gained the advantage. You are sitting in the car, music playing, waiting for the light to go green, maybe checking the text message your friend just sent you, TAP TAP TAP on the passenger window, you look. Then the driver door gets ripped open or the window smashed and there's a gun in your face? Lotta good the concealed will do you then?

Last thing I want is some cowboy playing police officer. Let the police be the police. I'd rather see the money/effort required to implement and maintain such a program be put towards more police on the street in needed areas or putting two police officers in a car versus one.

my 38 cents.