The lamestream media told you:
Referring to the Colorado Springs, Colo., ban on semiautomatic handguns for private security guards, Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence (formerly the National Council to Ban Handguns), said, “We allow ordinary citizens to carry these things around. Why we do that, I don’t know.” Helmke was interviewed by DeeDee Correll of the L.A. Times, following the death of a mass murderer shot by civilian volunteer Jeanne Assam, during a felony assault in a church.
Official security guards in the city, under “an attached policy” not part of the ordinance, are limited to revolvers in .38 and .357 calibers. Assam, a private CCW-permit holder, used an unspecified 9mm sidearm in the successful defense of the hundreds of congregants at the church.
Despite being named a security guard by lamestream outlets, she was not charged with carrying the wrong kind of gun, probably because, well, she’s not a security guard. No correction has been issued.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
In a startling admission to one of the nation’s largest lamestream papers, Paul Helmke, the man in charge of highly funded coordinated efforts to end the civil right to arms and disarm innocent Americans, admitted he didn’t know what normal semiautomatic sidearms are for.
To clarify, the reason American citizens “carry these things around,” is for personal safety, to protect the sanctity of life, to deter criminals, to defend against criminals, to assist others attacked by criminals as Jeanne Assam heroically did, plus for all the reasons we give firearms to the police and other authorities, and because as a natural, historic and constitutionally guaranteed right of free people, there are no legitimate grounds to forbid such private property to the public.
