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I am curious.
Outside of the shooting ranges or hunting grounds already available to them, what do these concealed- or open-carry gun-toting citizens propose to do on Honolulu’s city streets, parks and crowded beaches?
Frighten kupuna and toddlers? Threaten teenagers whose beach antics might be too rowdy for their trigger-sensitive fingers? Shoot drivers who cut them off in traffic?
In more than three decades of living in Hawaii, I’ve never seen the need for a self-created militia.
Given the anger and hostility pervading the mainland these days, I’d strongly caution against expanding gun rights in our aloha state.
Perle Besserman
Kakaako
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