Michigan - Open Carry Gun Laws - Clear and Present Danger

Hello....

When they time......Reporters need to do a story on the 'Open Carry' Law problems...like they can carry guns into public buildings but CPL people can't....'Open Carry' either needs to be fixed or banned.....Open Carry is a clear and present danger to public safety....
Did Snyder also veto - eliminating gun boards - allowing County Sheriffs to approve gun permits...and making MSP the record keeper for gun registrations...
PS...I can carry a gun into stadiums, schools, etc...I have a pistol free zone exemption - as a retired police officer....Law enforcement officers, off duty, and retired LE personnel can do so - because of our past training....

The lack of training for Open Carry and non LE - CPL carriers is a very serious threat to public safety.............needs to be addressed and corrected....now......

The NRA now agrees the need for common sense gun laws - this is not about taking guns from citizens - BUT - taking military assault weapons and high capacity magazines from the public marketplace - they are not needed to protect a home or for hunting...they are for mass killing, to kill as many people as possible in war situations, not domestic situations..
Jase Bolger, is a slimy, dishonest, Republican House Speaker (?), he should be in jail - shunned by the Republican Party for trying to 'rig' and election! The fact that the Republicans let him be Speaker - shows their lack of respect for the voting public and their own lack of accountability.

NRA vs NEWTOWN, CT - STAND UP FOR THEM

NRA = GUN NUTS, FOOLS, PAID POLITICIANS - STAND UP TO THEM....

Do you think the people of Newtown, Ct, are rushing to buy guns and assault weapons, to protect themselves !!!! - from another school, movie theatre, or public gun massacre ???...

The NRA, Fox News (?), misguided gun nuts and others are trying to make us feel guilty for talking about gun laws and assault weapon bans, in the wake of the child massacre in Newtown.

NRA and their gun nut, fools and paid politicians members are trying to downplay another gun massacre, make us think - its about a single deranged shooter - and not the insane and wrong headed 'gun culture' that is engrained in the US culture. Our wrong belief that people kill people, not guns !!! And that more guns in the hands of more people will solve the problem.

There automatic response to our very prevalent - gun massacres - is more guns, less laws...'Don't take our guns away' - because then only criminals will have guns'. Not acknowledging that the availability of guns - is how criminals get guns ( from home invasions, B&E of autos, etc)

Military assault weapons (AR15 /16s - AK 47s - Uzis - Mac10s - etc ) are not guns. They are military weapons designed to kill a large amount of people in the least amount of time. High capacity magazines allow you to have all of the ammunition you will need without reloading as often as needed with smaller magazines.

Our Founding Fathers (1781 - 231 years ago) and our Constitution could not have imagined these personal weapons of mass destruction and death.
The Fathers were trying to establish the right of citizens to be able to protect themselves, their families, homes and towns from the English, French, and 'savage' Native Americans, before the establishment of local police departments, state police, FBI and other law enforcement agencies that have been created to fill the need for public safety - common sense guns laws (except) for home protection should be discussed and reevaluated to make them stronger and more effective.

We need an immediate Assault Weapons / High Capacity Magazine Ban - The President, Congress, Governors and State Legislators must all stand up pass similiar legislation - Stand Up against the NRA. We also need to review all gun laws to strengthen them and make them more effective.

We need and END to 'Open Carry Gun Laws' in Michigan and in every state in the Country, and more and improved training for those 'legitimate' citizens who want and have 'concealed weapons permits'....Everyone who carries a gun - should know how and when to properly use the weapon and a clear understanding of the rights and responsibilities of having a gun, in public.

Michigan Governor Snyder must Stand Up to the Tea Party / right wing Republicans and the NRA and VETO - the recently passed gun bill, that would allow gun to be brought into schools, stadiums, hospitals, and have a real review of the Michigan 'Open Carry Law' and 'CPL Law' - to ban OC and to make mandatory more training for CPL carriers.

I am a retired Detroit Police Sergeant - I want the massacres of innocents to be stopped - and the availability of military style weapons to end.

NRA - NEWTOWN MASSACRE - BLOODY HANDS..ASSAULT WEAPON BAN - NOW

Newtown, Cn, 20 school children, 6 adults (and counting) killed by a gun.
Guns KILL People...

The NRA is complicit in another mass killing of innocents - another massacre, in which, the killing weapon was a gun...

The NRA opposition to an Assault Weapon / High Capacity Magazine Ban, makes them complicit and responsible..Their opposition, intimidation and lavish money lobbying,
is reprehensible, now and in the past.

The NRA must join, President Obama, Congress, Governors and Legilatures in supporting and passing an immediate - Assault Weapons / High Capacity Magazine Law.

This will not stop crazy, demented, unbalanced people from commiting crimes, but it will begin to change the gun mentality - the gun culture, and help take these dangerous military style weapons off the US market.

PS: Did Michigan Governor Snyder, have the guts, balls, courage to VETO, the insane legislative bill to allow guns in churchs and other protected areas ????

As a retired Police Sergeant, I feel, Michigan's Open (Gun) Carry Law, and the lack of training for CPLs (concealed weapons) is a clear and present danger to the public.

With the massacre of children, in Newtown, Cn, we need an immediate - Assa...ult Weapon / High Capacity Magazine Ban - Guns Kill People - the NRA is complicite in all gun massacres because of their opposition to the AWB - and their opposition to gun laws.

But it is also the President, Congress, Governors and State Legislatures that must - Stand Up - and against the NRA - and STAND WITH - the people who have been victims of gun violence and massacres.

DETROIT POLICE - SIXTH PRECINCT, DANGER ZONE - AGAIN

The Detroit Police Sixth Precinct, just a short nine months ago, was the subject of an internationally reported shooting, in which four police officers were shot, inside their building by a gunman, who rushed in with a shotgun and began to fire.

There was much hand ringing and promises of finding a solution to better protect the officers who sat behind a high desk, with almost NO view of people entering the front doors.

A hand held metal detector was used, then a real metal detector was brought in - problem solved ??? NO NO NO apparently the batteries or some other problem has left the metal detector - inoperable, unusable. An officer is now assigned to wand all visitors, a hand wand !!! The officer has a desk at the one entrance door, confusing signs on all the front doors make it difficult to find the right door to enter - then if the officers is not distracted by other duties, wands the visitor, BUT BUT nothing has been done to stop a person, who wants to burst in - guns blazing, because the front door is so close to the front desk, which officers sit at behind - with NO view of visitors coming in...

Apparently, the acting PC Chester Logan has known about the situation, as well as other police executives - a private citizen (former 6th Precinct Officer) and his company has offered to install a state of the art, metal detector, but 'red tape' has been delaying the gift.!!!!

Detroit police executives have said - Detroit has no money, to improve the Department. The Department us under Federal Consent Decress (for 10 years), paying out money to a monitor, under the view of US Judge Julian Cook,(who seems to have fallen asleep the past 10 years {a federal monitor slept with Mayor Kilpatrick}. The Detroit Police Department has no money to find a new Police Chief, to conduct a national search for a police chief, who can come in and clean up, clean out the Department of 'dead wood', nepotism, cronisym, and favoritism.

Mayor Bing and the City Council ,should go to Lansing and Washington DC, and request money - to protect the residents from crime, arsons, and to be able to transport its residents to a hospital, in a timely manner. State and Federal grants must be a priority in getting the funding to improve the Police / Fire / EMS Departments.

If no grant money is forthcoming the City - should tell Lansing and Washington DC, that it will layoff all Police / Fire / EMS personeel, or shut down all the non necessary duties of these employees. The police and fire unions must be brought in -to bear witness to the clear and present dangers to their members.

Detroit residents are NOT being properly protected by the police department, fire and EMS departments - not because of the officers, fireman, or medical technicians, but because of the politics, the negelect of duty - of current and previous mayors and council members. and police executives - Detroit residents deserve better...if City leaders don't act - then the Governor and Department of Justice - MUST step in and take control - to make Detroit a safe city.