Titled: Retooling CCW zones

Pack heat in your house of worship? Carry a concealed handgun to your child's teacher conference in a school or day-care center? What about a pistol in the hospital emergency room?

Since July 1, 2001, Michigan residents licensed to carry a concealed pistol have been prohibited from carrying it in these and several other pistol-free zones. Now, a Michigan lawmaker -- state Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt -- is conducting Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into revisions of the CCW law. One proposed change is to ease up these no-carry zones, possibly dropping some of them.

Gun-control advocates argue that licensed handgun bearers would provide security that does not exist under the present law. And they have a point.

In recent weeks a trio of unrelated attacks killed three people in an Atlanta, Ga., courtroom on March 11; seven in a Milwaukee, Wis., church on March 12; and eight at Red Lake High School in Minnesota on March 21. Would some of those people be alive today if someone had been armed and able to disable or obstruct the gunmen?

It's an interesting question. The article does a pretty good job of just presenting the information without pushing the reader one way or another. I really wish more of the main stream media would present news stories in this way.

For the record I believe I should be able to openly carry my firearm with me where ever I go.

But thats just me.