I'm putting this in the debate area, rather than the gun area, because this is no longer news. We've all seen the stories about people buying guns 'while they still can get them.
My reason for posting this here is contained in the story below, please read the blue highlights:
And this is really the crux of the problem. Why should a Presidential candidate have ANYTHING about their proposed policies be unknown? It's completely unacceptable.
If you were applying for a job and your potential employer asked you how you plan to do Task X, you can be sure he wouldn't accept you ignoring the question.
Thoughts? Am I off base by wondering why people know so little about our next president's policies?
My reason for posting this here is contained in the story below, please read the blue highlights:
Hoosiers buying guns before leadership changes
Updated: Nov 22, 2008 10:19 PM
http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=9399891
Richard Essex/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - One in 15 Hoosiers has a permit to carry a gun and according to police, the numbers are on the rise. In fact, counties around Indianapolis are reporting a 50 percent increase in gun permits over last year.
From the people we talked to it is the unknown of what the new president's administration's policy will be on guns and gun permits.
Darryl Anderson is learning to shoot her new Smith and Wesson 38 handgun.
"This is my first time," said Anderson.
It's her first gun and her first time in a shooting range. She decided to buy a gun just two weeks ago. Anderson and her husband are self employed. She wants the gun for protection at work.
"I want to feel safe and I don't want somebody else regulating if I can and cannot be safe," Anderson explained.
She like thousands of others are buying guns and getting permits to carry them, not just for the protection.
"They are scared to death that someone will take all their guns away from them," said Marshall Stakey, a gun shop owner in Whitestown. "I'm not going to give up my guns. I got a lot of friends and people I sell guns to that are not going to give 'em up," said Stakey.
He says it's the fear of legislation that "might" be coming when the new administration takes office.
"Our gun permits have doubled both in the lifetime and the four year permits here in Indiana," said Boone County Sheriff Ken Campbell.
Campbell's staff has processed twice as many applications for permits as last year with a marked increase since Election Day.
"From setting in my office and hearing my staff talk with the folks as they come in and fill out there paper work and go back and get finger printed, it seems that there is a lot of concern after the national election with our incoming president and the fear of him being very anti-gun," said Campbell.
There is not a waiting period to buy a gun. After a quick background check at the gun shop, you can walk out the door with a gun. However, it could take 4-to-8 weeks before you get a permit to carry a gun.
If you were applying for a job and your potential employer asked you how you plan to do Task X, you can be sure he wouldn't accept you ignoring the question.
Thoughts? Am I off base by wondering why people know so little about our next president's policies?