Promoting the Second Amendment Door to Door

Dean Weingarten

10 years ago

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In a brilliant bit of Second Amendment promotion, members of Wisconsin Carry went door to door in a rough area of Milwaukee, offering free training required to obtain a Wisconsin concealed carry license. The south side of town doesn’t have the reputation due to its high crime rate. The city has 10 percent of the state’s residents and 60 percent of Wisconsin’s murders . . .

Wisconsin Carry has been providing free classes so people can obtain the Wisconsin permit since 2009. The Wisconsin shall-issue concealed carry law went into effect in November of 2011. The Badger State exceeded 200,000 permit holders in September of 2013.

From jsonline.com:

Sonia, a mother of two on Milwaukee’s south side, doesn’t want guns in her house.

But with a pair of convicted sex offenders nearby who have just been granted allowance to leave their home unsupervised, Sonia has begun to think about some form of protection, perhaps pepper spray or a Taser.

When gun rights activists fanned out in her neighborhood Saturday afternoon, handing out fliers promoting free classes for training on carrying firearms, Sonia was one of the first to sign up — since Wisconsin residents need similar training to legally carry a Taser.

Scholar John Lott has found that the demographic group that benefits the most from concealed carry permits is urban minority women. As an instructor, I have found that women are very receptive to self-protection when they obtain serious information on the subject, rather than emotional appeals.

It’s legal to openly carry in Wisconsin, though that right had to be fought for and defended in court before the Wisconsin legislature finally corrected police abuses with a specific declaration that open carry does not constitute “disorderly conduct”.

While the comments at the jsonline.com article highlights numerous anti-Second Amendment individuals fearful of allowing ordinary citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights, Sonia, who does not want a gun in her house, did not have a problem with approaching the pair of open carriers who were handing out fliers:

“Are you from Wisconsin Carry?” Sonia asked, running out of her house on a chilly afternoon. She had heard the group would be in her neighborhood and wanted a copy of the group’s flier, which advertises the next free training session for carrying a weapon.

Sonia went back inside her house and immediately registered for the free class, to be held April 19.

Another program designed to address the defensive needs of inner city dwellers, the Armed Citizen Project, is planning to distribute free shotguns and training in nearby Indiana. Due to efforts like these, the number of women gun owners is growing rapidly. I suspect that as Sonia becomes educated, she will join that cohort.

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