Look at the reaction to the Fort Hood shooting, Nitrox.

As far as the Dept. of Homeland Security is concerned, the major danger is the imaginary anti-Muslim backlash.

Something that has never happened in U.S. history.

The Obama administration, and the political left in general, are convinced that the "right" is the danger. And they won't be deterred from their conviction no matter how many non-Muslims are killed by Muslims and how few are killed by the right. No matter what happens, the left is ideologically committed to the thought that the major danger to the U.S. are the Southern Baptists. Who's only crime against me, as far as I'm concerned, when living in what's known as the Bible Belt, is preventing me from buying beer from midnight Saturday until Monday.

Oh, the horror! I had to buy all the beer I needed for the week-end by sometime on Saturday or else go without.

What you guys outside the country have to understand is that many of us see this expression of our rights is not an expression of our fear over crime.

It's an expression of the fact that we won't be separated from our rights. I jumped on the bandwagon in the late '90's, not because I was mugged or robbed. But because of Janet Reno's attitude toward the fear of crime. It was inappropriate, she said, for people to demand the right to carry when the crime rate was going down. On the other hand, it was perfectly appropriate for the populace to demand the government take greater and greater control over their lives due to the fear of crime, whether or not that fear was warranted.

The fact of the matter is I see these concealed carry laws as the antidote to the left enshrining their political preferences as a matter of law. Part of the antidote, not the entire cure. I'm glad you guys in the Commonwealth feel secure enough in your manhood to walk down the street unarmed, therefore you don't need concealed carry.

But I think you're missing the point. I won't tolerate any infringement on my rights, even if I don't believe I'll need to exercise that right in the near future.

Why do I want liberal concealed carry laws? Because I value freedom.