NRA to bring law and order to St. Louis;Green Bay not likely convention location

From our good buddies the Gun Guys:

The NRA has announced that their 2007 Convention will be hosted in a much more gun-friendly citizen than those miserable spoil-sports in Columbus: St. Louis!

[The NRA cancelled its Columbus convention plans because the city council passed an assault weapons ban.--Xoff.]

Obviously Missouri is one heck of a gun-friendly state, so I'm sure that the good citizens of St. Louis live a charmed life, free of the specter of violent crime...right? Shockingly enough, no!

St. Louis actually ranks as the 4th most dangerous city in America with a population of more than 75,000 people. And the stats aren't much better when it's compared to cities of comparable size. It's the 2nd most dangerous city in America in it's weight class. (Stats come from Morgan Quinto)

Clearly what this city needs in an influx of CCW permit-holding NRA members to go "Dirty Harry" on the mean streets of the city. We say it's about time!

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No Fox Valley convention?

Meanwhile, it looks like a pretty safe bet that Green Bay and Appleton are off the list of possible NRA convention sites, too.

The police chiefs of those Fox Valley cities have spoken up against allowing people to carry concealed weapons in Wisconsin. State Sen. Dave Zien is working on the latest incarnation of his bill, due for introduction soon, the Green Bay Press Gazette reports.

Wisconsin law enforcement officials and organizations have been almost unanimous in their opposition to concealed carry in the past. They think that putting more guns on the street, in the grocery store, at the park, on the bus, at the zoo, etc etc etc will endanger their officers and the public.

“We are not anti-gun, anti-hunter or anti-NRA,” Green Bay Police Chief Craig Van Schyndle said at a press event held by Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort at the Brown County Courthouse in Green Bay. “This is an officer-safety issue and a community-safety issue. Green Bay, Appleton and Brown County are very safe communities, and concealed carry is a very dangerous proposition.”

Where would they get a crazy idea like that?