OC press Janesville

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Paul:

Is that you in the orange WCI shirt? Regardless, you got to LOVE those WCI shirts....

Nope. No pictures of me. My interview was exclusively via telephone.

 

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Here's the actual article

Only one inaccuracy on my part of the interview. I have never open carried in Elkhorn. I mentioned that I have in Delavan and other places, however.

One other thing I noticed is he said that Nik said

Open Carry is adding about 100 members a month, he said. He would not disclose how many members the organization had.

I assume he mis-quoted Nik since I'm sure Nik said Wisconsin Carry.

The reporter also said

People must have permission to carry on private property such as stores or restaurants.

which is inaccurate. I am pretty sure I didn't say this to him. I will email him to straighten him out.

 

[protias]

Anyone who is not a convicted criminal prohibited from having a firearm can openly carry a gun in most places.

Isn't it felons who cannot carry?

People can’t carry a gun in a vehicle unless it is unloaded and put away.

Should change that to encased. Put away sounds like the trunk, glove box, center counsel, etc.

People also can’t be intoxicated while carrying.

Is there a statute on this? I do not remember.

 

[Wisconsin Carry Inc. - Chairman]

I talked with the reporter for quite a while and covered a lot of information. He got a couple of the quotes a little off.

He said carriers don’t want to draw attention and would prefer to conceal carry if it was legal. He said residents of all ages and professions open carry every day.

What I actually said was that open-carriers aren't trying to prove a point and in fact, many of our members would prefer to conceal carry, but they open-carry because its the only way to do so legally.

So its a little inaccurate to draw the conclusion that "carriers" in general would prefer to conceal carry. Many would, some would not. Not a huge mis-quote, he did take a lot of information from me. Oh well.

 

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Isn't it felons who cannot carry?



Should change that to encased. Put away sounds like the trunk, glove box, center counsel, etc.



Is there a statute on this? I do not remember.

Felons and a couple other classes, people who have domestic violence charges, I believe.

Encased, you are correct.

Statute on drinking I don't have.

 

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Not a huge mis-quote, he did take a lot of information from me. Oh well.

Same with me.

The one line I was 'proud' of that he didn't use was I asked him if he supported training or licensing of people in his profession. Would he support a law that wouldn't allow him to 'report' while in his car, that he couldn't 'report' while in a bar, etc...

 

[Mlutz]

Isn't it felons who cannot carry?



Should change that to encased. Put away sounds like the trunk, glove box, center counsel, etc.



Is there a statute on this? I do not remember.

941.20 Endangering safety by the use of a dangerous wepon. (1) (b). Not sure if thats the proper way to berak downa stat. Lets hope. Lol. "Operates or goes armed with a firearm while he or she is under the influence of an intoxicant; or (then it goes onto (bm) and im not going into that now. But it does talk about meth, ghb,and thc... No mention of "alcohol". It is an intoxicant so I guess the first part clears that up.

 

[Wisconsin Carry Inc. - Chairman]

Just out of curiosity I checked the WCI website new member registrations/donations today. Already a couple new members today who almost certainly heard of us through the Gazette article. A new member from Beloit and a new member from Janesville.

Carry On

 

[protias]

941.20 Endangering safety by the use of a dangerous wepon. (1) (b). Not sure if thats the proper way to berak downa stat. Lets hope. Lol. "Operates or goes armed with a firearm while he or she is under the influence of an intoxicant; or (then it goes onto (bm) and im not going into that now. But it does talk about meth, ghb,and thc... No mention of "alcohol". It is an intoxicant so I guess the first part clears that up.

Yes it does. I would even then argue that smoking is a drug. But we all know, no one is going to try to argue that it is a drug.

 

[Mlutz]

Yes it does. I would even then argue that smoking is a drug. But we all know, no one is going to try to argue that it is a drug.

Well, as a smoker Im going to argue back!

 

[Teamtnt2004]

I'm from Janesville too. I got up this morning and ran to the gas station down the street (of course I OC'd). Picked up the paper read the article. I thought it was neutral which is what a good reported does. Not like all these other who pick a side, and especially the ones who try to make us look like "gun nuts". I'm glad I did not see that in there. Overall I thought the article was pretty well done.

Carry On!

 

[bnhcomputing]

Just out of curiosity I checked the WCI website new member registrations/donations today. Already a couple new members today who almost certainly heard of us through the Gazette article. A new member from Beloit and a new member from Janesville.

Carry On

A new FOUNDERS member today as well!

 

[jeff niles]

jeff oc story

Did you see the discussion at end of gazettextra.com? Boy did we start something. I think i am going to move,people are pissed. i don't think i can go into public with my gun any more,just trying to help out the oc thing. what dose every one else think?

 

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Jeff, I don't see any comments on the actual article. Where are you seeing them?

If you mean the comments on Ted's blog, no big deal, it's just one or two rabble rousers.

 

[Wisconsin Carry Inc. - Chairman]

Did you see the discussion at end of gazettextra.com? Boy did we start something. I think i am going to move,people are pissed. i don't think i can go into public with my gun any more,just trying to help out the oc thing. what dose every one else think?

Jeff,

Never confuse the keyboard commando's with reality. The anonymous internet gives people the opportunity to rant and rave all they want.

Janesville has a population of what... 60,000? The Janesville Gazette has a printed circulation of 24,000....

So the online story was probably read by between 10,000 and 60,000 people and 10 - 20 uber-lefty liberals who clearly tend to "feel" more than they "think" feel compelled to change the world from behind their keyboard hit the comments section over and over?

The comments of those dozen people who get so up in arms and take it out on their keyboard aren't representative of the whole population, rather they represent the tiny part of the population that were so offended by the notion of freedom that they devoted time to responding.

Most people read that article and probably said "hmm interesting" and went on about their life.

 

[Wisconsin Carry Inc. - Chairman]

no big deal, it's just one or two rabble rousers.

Exactly... The "comments" sections of online articles simply give people an opportunity to "vent". They don't demonstrate a representative sample of the impression of all who read the story.

Only the small percentage so viscerally affected by the story would feel compelled to take time and post.

 

[Doug Huffman]

...it's just one or two rabble rousers.

That's what they say about our comments, especially the anonymous ones from keyboard cowbois desperately seeking significance through fancy titles and eXtreme epithets©®.

 

[jeff niles]

oc janesville store

Jeff, I don't see any comments on the actual article. Where are you seeing them?

If you mean the comments on Ted's blog, no big deal, it's just one or two rabble rousers.

Go on line to the story Gazetteexrta,com at the bottom in the comments there is hundreds of them

 

[Doug Huffman]

234 Too many from idiots and out of state.

 

[paul@paul-fisher.com]

Go on line to the story Gazetteexrta,com at the bottom in the comments there is hundreds of them

Sorry, I don't see any on the actual story and the preview blog doesn't have hundreds, it has a few and most are by 4 or 5 people.