{"id":422,"date":"2003-11-01T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:02:23","slug":"422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/01\/422\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officials Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what Wisconsin&#8217;s law officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/ozwash\/oct03\/181104.asp\" target=\"_new\">have to say<\/a> about the concealed carry law winding through that state&#8217;s legislature:<\/p>\n<ul><b><i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Ozaukee County Sheriff Maury Straub said Wednesday. &#8220;Proponents say it&#8217;s for citizen safety. As sheriff, I know of very few people who have had to protect their lives or the lives of others by deadly force.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>How many people who were unarmed do you know of who died when someone attacked them?  I don&#8217;t remember Ozaukee County being <b>that<\/b> safe.  Straub&#8217;s words could quite easily indicate that he doesn&#8217;t know of any because those people have not had the right to defend themselves outside of their homes.  Also, keep in mind <i>deadly force<\/i> implied that the goblins got killed instead of just winged.  Maybe the Ozaukee residents are good at shooting out kneecaps.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;It will give people a lot of false securities. Even though people can shoot at a paper target and take a class to learn gun safety, the bad guys are going to assume their victim has a gun and will be more aggressive and more violent,&#8221; said [Hartford Police Lt. Tom] Horvath, saying he was speaking only for himself and not the department.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s good for Britain is good for us, hey, loot?  Of course, maybe if the goblins feared for their own lives, they&#8217;d perhaps think of another line of work.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Said Cedarburg Police Chief Tom Frank: &#8220;My initial reaction is, I&#8217;m not in favor of it because of the many situations in which police officers have contact with angry citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In many of those cases, citizens who have been arrested for various offenses have acted in a violent manner toward a police officer,&#8221; Frank said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just fearful that with some people now carrying concealed weapons, the violence toward police officers could become a greater problem,&#8221; he said.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Frank has a valid concern.  However, he&#8217;s weighing the safety of a few citizens (the police) against the majority of the citizens.  Police would be safer, too, if they kept the general population sedated.  Quick, someone legislate manditory downers for all!<\/ul>\n<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\" target=\"_new\">Boots and Sabers<\/a>.  Owen&#8217;s in Milwaukee, so he&#8217;s got a pony in this fight and he&#8217;s keeping us up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what Wisconsin&#8217;s law officials have to say about the concealed carry law winding through that state&#8217;s legislature: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Ozaukee County Sheriff Maury Straub said Wednesday. &#8220;Proponents say it&#8217;s for citizen safety. As sheriff, I know of very few people who have had to protect their lives or the lives of others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22175,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}