Psychologist: Psychological Tests Can't Predict Rogue Pilots...

In the aftermath of the GermanWings crash, the reliability of psychological testing is downplayed. Said Dr. Erin Bowen, a behavioral psychologist, in an interview conducted for the Today Show,

"The idea nowadays that a full psychological workup would somehow clue you in to which pilots are going to do things like this, it's fiction."

Yet the Brady and Bloomberg anti-firearms groups continue to insist that psychological evaluations are the magic bullet (forgive the pun) that should determine who should or should not own a firearm. If they can't predict which lawfully-licensed pilots are going to take down an aircraft, then they certainly can't predict which firearms owners are likely to commit crimes with lawfully-owned firearms.

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Thank you, Dr. Bowen, for stating what so many of us have known for so long.

Senator Green, Enough Already!!!

Senator Green,

I truly respect the work you have done to advance firearm carry rights in Michigan.  

But with all due respect, I am sick of this argument that the right to carry concealed in a gun free zone should require significantly more training than carrying the same firearm openly in a gun free zone.  It is completely irrational to argue that a person with a CPL can openly carry in a gun free zone based solely on their cpl training, yet the moment that same person chooses to carry that same gun into the same gun free zone concealed, they have to have significantly more (expensive) training.

It is time for concealed/open carry parity.  The danger doesn't somehow increase with the choice to carry concealed in a gun free zone, and it is time to stop pretending otherwise for the sake of the resident gun grabbers in our legislature.