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[Straw Man]

226. Indiscriminate.

I oppose the indiscriminate issue of CC permits and the laws allowing such nonsense.

Are you referring to "shall issue" policies? Because they are far from "indiscriminate." "Shall issue" simply means that the state must issue permits to those that meet the criteria it has established: no more unlimited and unexamined discretion by judges and law enforcement officials to deny permits to people whom they don't like for one reason or another. Wrong nationality, wrong politics, wrong religion, wrong gender, wrong sexuality, wrong race: take your pick. That's the sad history of "may issue." New York's history is a case in point:

CONCEALED PISTOLS

Editorial, New York Times, January, 27, 1905

Among the best British traditions perpetuated and cherished in America is that of using natures weapons in the act of self-defense. That it is sincerely cherished is shown in the recent introduction at Albany of a bill by Assemblyman Tompkins to amend the Penal Code of this State relative to the carrying of loaded firearms concealed about the person. The amending section reads as follows:

Sec. 411-A Any person other than a peace officer who shall in any public street, highway or place in any city in this State having a population of upward of 100,000 persons by the last State census have or carry concealed upon his person any loaded pistol, revolver, or other firearm, without thereto fore, in the manner now provided by law, having been authorized to carry the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Such a measure would prove corrective and salutary in a city filled with immigrants and evil communications, floating from the shores of Italy and Austria-Hungary. New York police reports frequently testify to the fact that the Italian and other south Continental gentry here are acquainted with the pocket pistol, and while drunk or merrymaking will use it quite as handily as the stiletto, and with more deadly effect. It is hoped that this treacherous and distinctly outlandish mode of settling disputes may not spread to corrupt the native good manners of the community. The case of a Columbia student who flourished and fired a pistol at his persecutors instead of using his "bare fist", as his presumably British-American descent would prescribe, is fresh in the public memory. The act now proposed and championed by Mr. Tompkins will diminish the number of homicides.

-- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03E4D8163DE733A25754C2A9679C946497D6CF

This is in reference to the Tompkins Act. The subsequent Sullivan Act, in 1911, upgraded it to a felony. In the South, handgun permits were usually at the discretion of the county sheriff. I wonder who got permits and who didn't.