Carrry in Detroit

Mr H said:

Wow!

Tucker Carlson just popped a story about folks carrying in Detroit, and the support they have from the Chief of Police.

Sounds like there will be Part 2 tomorrow night.

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Uncle Duke said:

Detroit Chief James Craig is a long time proponent of citizen carry for self defense.

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danb said:

IDK about "long time" He used to be an anti gunner. He was converted just before his stint in Detroit.

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Uncle Duke said:

Six years of national attention that I'm aware of, so I'll grant "long time" as being perhaps an incorrect choice of words.

If you can cite James as previously being anti, I'd like to see it. I'm not aware of that. Might actually be even better if he was.

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A Motown Cop’s Case for Concealed Carry
By Jillian Kay Melchior

January 13, 2014 8:00 PM

Detroit police chief James Craig
Detroit’s criminals fear gun-toting citizens, and that’s a good thing, says Chief James Craig.

Concealed weapons play an important role in deterring crime, Detroit police chief James Craig said to much fanfare at a news conference earlier this month. He recently elaborated on his statement, speaking by telephone to National Review Online.

Craig, a Detroit native, spent 28 years working at the Los Angeles Police Department before becoming police chief in Portland, Me. There, he had what he describes as “an ah-ha moment, a moment of reflection.”

“Because of my time in California, and knowing that it was rare for someone to be granted a concealed-weapons permit, I automatically went into the mode of denying the permits,” Craig says. His staff in Maine noticed and pointed out to him that the state has low crime and a good safety record.

“I started thinking about it, and the places I’d worked in the past had been certainly more violent than Portland, Me.,” Craig says. “Here we have a lot of good Americans or Mainers who have a concealed weapon, and we have low crime. . . . That must translate into [concealed weapons] having kind of a deterrent effect on violence, because it’s not like Maine doesn’t have people engaged in violent crime. It’s just not to the degree of other places.”

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danb said:

Google is your friend...This is old news.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/01/motown-cops-case-concealed-carry-jillian-kay-melchior/

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Glaron said:

yep. I liked it.
Not promoting vigilantes, just asking people not to be victims.

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Postell said:

Michiagn has been Shall Issue since 2000.
In the 1999-2000 term, Gorchow said then-Governor John Engler signed a bill into law that indeed made Michigan a "shall issue" state.

The Michigan State legislators pursue preemption of local firearm ordinances. On September 27, 2017

Michigan has a regulatory scheme concerning firearms that places great limitations on how local governments are able to enforce alleged firearms violations. Michigan Compiled Law 123.1102 states that “[a] local unit of government shall not impose special taxation on, enact or enforce any ordinance or regulation pertaining to, or regulate in any other manner the ownership, registration, purchase, sale, transfer, transportation, or possession of pistols, other firearms, or pneumatic guns, ammunition for pistols or other firearms, or components of pistols or other firearms, except as otherwise provided by federal law or a law of this state”. This means that local governments are not allowed to enact laws concerning firearms and pneumatic guns (bb guns or pellet guns), unless they are specifically allowed to under federal and/or state Law.

I dont remember the good police chief having anything to do with it, I could be wrong here. but I dont believe he was involved.

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Stoveman said:

Who said that he was instrumental in Michigan going Shall Issue? The fact that a Chief of Police of a major metropolitan city who was previously against citizen carry is now actively promoting it is the story.

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Occam said:

Yes indeedy. That and the fact that none of the nightmare scenarios predicted by the antis - even in a place as violence-impacted as Detroit - have ever manifested themselves. It's a perfect case study in why the Maryland position on this is 100% backwards, wrong, and hopefully short lived.

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