More people see the light in Montgomery

News from Montgomery, Alabama:

About two months ago, Griffin heard comments Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright made suggesting that residents buy a gun and learn how to use it to protect themselves.

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Since the mayor's statements, the class has doubled in size, applications for gun permits are up, and at least one gun store owner has seen more customers.

At the sheriff's office, where applicants file for permits to carry concealed handguns, there were 499 new permits issued in the county in the two months following the mayor's Sept. 16 comments.

In the two months before Bright's comments, there were 427 new gun permits.

What is this "permit" which you speak of? Is there, perhaps, city revenue involved? Still, it's good news from where I'm sitting.