Indiana Sheriff Shares His Views After Six Months of Permitless Carry
BY Herschel Smith1 year, 10 months ago
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – In the state of Indiana, gun owners no longer need any sort of permit to carry a handgun while in public spaces. For less than a year, this has been the case after the state removed the requirement for handgun permits, and some in law enforcement aren’t happy about the change.
Before the Indiana state legislature officially removed the requirement for handgun permits, many in law enforcement weren’t convinced.
“I, along with most of my other law enforcement colleagues, were very apprehensive about this,” said Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson.
Before the change, a gun owner looking to have a gun in public had to go to their local sheriff’s office or police department for the application and eventually, the Indiana State Police would say either yes or no.
Sheriff Robinson says this gave law enforcement valuable information. Without it, it raises more questions as they try to determine if a suspicious person with a gun is allowed to have it.
“Before, that determination was made in a quiet office over a period of weeks where someone would investigate your background and make that determination,” said Robinson. “We now have to do that on the side of the road. It’s not practical.”
The law doesn’t allow violent felons to have handguns in public, but that doesn’t always apply to those with patterns of violent behavior or mental instability who wouldn’t have been approved for a handgun permit.
“I think it decreases public safety, I think it decreases officer safety, and time will tell whether that’s borne out or not,” said Robinson.
Sheriff Robinson says permits were also valuable when they found people doing things they shouldn’t and they found a gun on them. When other charges didn’t apply, having the gun meant they could arrest the person and take and gun away.
It was also an additional source of information for them when approaching people.
“To have had the information and had that taken away from us is frustrating, because it took a system that wasn’t broken and broke it,” said Robinson.
Or perhaps this made an unconstitutional system finally constitutional. Everything depends on perspective, yes?
This is a remarkable set of admissions from a CLEO. They want decisions about your God-given rights to be made in a quiet room with no one watching over their shoulder and no recourse for faulty decisions that infringe on your rights. He said so.
Also, note the use he sees in the permitting scheme. For conditions where “other charges didn’t apply,” he could always get his man with a weapons charge. But what does this mean – other charges didn’t apply? It means, I take it, that the alleged perpetrator wasn’t really guilty of the crime for which he had been accused. The LEOs are thus the judiciary in this circumstance. He’s really guilty of doing something we don’t want, but we can’t prove it beyond as reasonable doubt. But we can surely prove he was carrying a weapon, so there, perp. Take that.
As for whether someone is carrying a weapon, his officers should always assume that is the case. It’s the case with permitted carriers, and it’s the case with criminals who never obeyed the law anyway. So what’s changed?
Nothing. And he can’t point to blood running in the streets because of permitless carry because it hasn’t happened.
The sky is falling. But not really.
On January 15, 2023 at 10:57 pm, Heywood said:
And then they wonder why their public support is dropping like a stone? What an idiot.
On January 16, 2023 at 12:04 am, Navin R Johnson said:
Evansville is a river town close to Louisville KY and all of the enrichment of big blue CPUSA cities.
An armed citizen stopped the south central suburban Indianapolis Greenwood Park Mall shooting just two weeks after constitutional carry went into effect in July 2022.
A few years ago the west suburb of Brownsburg had a racially motivated shooter attack at a town cemetery in broad daylight and he was killed by a motorist who spotted it while driving.
On January 16, 2023 at 8:38 am, Greg said:
He said the silent part out loud. It was always about power and control.
On January 16, 2023 at 9:39 am, PGF said:
A “pattern of mental instability”
Like the deep abiding desire to control others that Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson expresses? That kind of mental instability?
On January 19, 2023 at 12:13 am, Longbow said:
Quote from PGF above,
“Like the deep abiding desire to control others”
Why do you think he and so many others go into Law Imposement in the first place?
Do you want to be infuriated? Watch a few 1st Amendment Audit videos on Yoo Toob. Tyrants revert to type very quickly.
Do you still believe in Dudley Do-Right?