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NC legislators must act to stop restaurant homicide

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Published on Sunday, 22 January 2012 11:38
Posted by Paul Valone

By F. Paul Valone
January 20, 2012

 

3 recent restaurant crimes: 2 disarmed victims dead, 1 armed concealed handgun permit-holder prevails …

 

Danielle WatsonWhen Grass Roots North Carolina drafted legislation to expand concealed carry into the state’s restaurants, the naysayers laughed. “Why should anybody need a gun in a restaurant?” they smirked. “Think about drunks with guns!” Sadly, last weekend gave us the sort of retort we have dreaded all along: Danielle Watson.

Danielle was a manager at the Flying Biscuit Café in Charlotte. On January 13, she was closing the restaurant along with recently-hired cook Mark Cox. What she apparently didn’t know about Cox was that he was a felon, released just two months ago after doing time for armed robbery.

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Michael Luo misrepresents NC concealed handgun permit system

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Published on Thursday, 05 January 2012 18:37
Posted by Paul Valone
By F. Paul ValoneGRNC President - Paul Valone
January 2, 2012

 

In a piece run across the country, New York Times reporter Mike Luo cherry-picks anecdotes, misrepresents data, and ignores contradictions to smear North Carolina’s concealed handgun permit-holders as rife with criminals. What follows comes partly from questions I posed during his interview of me.

 

Luo matched data between our concealed handgun permit (CHP) and criminal record databases, producing “more than” 2,400 claimed matches, including “more than” 200 alleged felons. Yet that leaves 2,200 convicted of misdemeanors, many of which wouldn’t disqualify permit applicants. Bearing in mind that nobody has seen his data, Luo’s “criminals” could be guilty of offenses like “Hazing,” “Stealing Dairy Crates,” “Theft of Cable TV,” or even (perish the thought) “Taking Sea Oats From Land Of Another.”

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