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ross and jason, you are not jim beal, are you?  He is old enough to answer for himself.  And don't speak for me because you don't know where I have lived.  Keep your assumptions and your bullets to yourselves.

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echolynch and cfbednarek, the point is that bloodbaths do indeed occur and are not prevented by trained people carrying loaded weapons.

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How much training and what kind of background checks are required in Oregon and Washington to openly carry a weapon, carry a weapon concealed, or even buy a weapon?  No training is legally required to buy a weapon in Oregon.  

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Jim Beal, you say that you are not afraid of anything, yet you carry a weapon in response to shootings in your apartment complex.  So are you afraid of being shot or not?  Also, why are you still living in a place where people are shooting each other?

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Check the facts: VPC has a tally of alll of the ccw killers.

http://www.vpc.org/ccwkillers.htm

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Jim Beal doesn't see any bloodbaths?  What about the four officers murdered in Lakewood?

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A police officer carrying a weapon has training.  In Oregon, no training is required to purchase a gun or open carry.

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IF the ditty is true that guns don't kill people, people kill people then, according to that logic, you don't need a gun:  it is the person who kills and not the weapon.  So why even bother with a gun? Because it is the most lethal of weapons.  Frightened people carry a loaded gun because they know THEY might not be able to kill but a gun can.  So let's pack off that illogical bit of "guns don't kill people".  People use guns to kill other people intentionally and accidentally every day in America.  

Every shooting is preventable.

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An armed society is an intimidated society (to paraphrase Robert Heinlein). Packing heat on a rural ranch is one thing, packing heat in the 'burbs or the city is an advertisement for the nra and an excuse for anyone to be judge, jury, and executioner all in one minute.

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