soc.women

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:21:21 -0500, Michelle Malkin quoted someone else
saying:

>> A pair of such bills has cleared both houses of the legislature. One
>> would allow motorists to stash their guns in glove compartments even
>> if they do not have permits allowing them to carry concealed weapons.
>> That makes police officers particularly nervous; stopping a car can be
>> dangerous enough without assuming there are unseen guns on board.

So far as I know, this has been legal in Utah since forever.

"Stopping a car can be dangerous enough WITHOUT assuming there are unseen
guns on board"... I hope this was not written by the police! That's
insane. Of *course* you assume there are unseen guns on board.

In Utah, it is the near certainty of unseen guns that protects its
citizens from daylight robberies. Largely in left-leaning Salt Lake City
do you have the kinds of crime you have in left-leaning eastern cities.

Utah is not quite what it used to be; when I was a kid every pickup truck
had shotguns on a rack behind the driver. I didn't think much of them,
which is to say, I did not much respect people that shot up telephone
insulators and rabbits or any other thing that moved, or shoot things to
make them move and then shoot them again, BUT I have to admit that
robberies and burglaries were uncommon.