More evidence that incidents of concealed carry permit-holders doing criminal or dumb things - though the gun lobby tells they're all "law-abiding citizens" - is likely (very) under-reported.

First, this police blotter in the Morganton News-Herald (North Carolina):

Derrick Woodley Clark, 25, of 7260 N.C. 181 was charged on Tuesday with carrying a concealed weapon permit violation. He was confined at the Burke County Jail. Bond: $500 secured. Court date: Nov. 17.

Second, this off-handed note in a reporter's diary of her "ride along" with a City of Cleveland police officer.

In the Plain Dealer:

12:37 a.m.

A blue Saturn drives by with its high beams on. [Cleveland police officer Jim Simone] does a U-turn and flies after him. The computer shows he's driving under suspension and has a weapon permit.

...The man has three open driving-under-suspension cases....

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The more stories like these are reported, the less reason people have to believe that simply having a concealed carry permit is reason enough to trust somebody they don't know with a firearm.

Like the gun lobby says, Deaone McNeal was just another "law-abiding citizen" because he had a concealed carry permit...

...until he snapped in a road rage incident and pulled a gun on a mother and her 2-year-old daughter.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

A 24-year-old Upper Darby man, infuriated that a woman had honked at him in an intersection, pulled a gun on her and her 2-year-old daughter and said, "You're dead," police said yesterday.

Deaone McNeal, of the 1600 block of Garrett Road, was arrested near his home Saturday after the victim called 911 from her car, Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. McNeal denied having a gun, but when police searched his vehicle, Chitwood said, they found a .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol loaded with 16 hollow-point bullets.

Police also found McNeal's 7-year-old daughter terrified in the backseat, Chitwood said.

"He had enough firepower to start a war," Chitwood said. "She was lucky."

...

McNeal was granted a permit in January to carry a concealed weapon, Chitwood said. McNeal stated self-defense as his reason for needing the permit. Two months later, he was arrested for aggravated assault and simple assault, Chitwood said. More information on the earlier charges were not immediately available yesterday.

Chitwood kept McNeal's gun, and said he aims to get the permit taken away, too.

"It's done. I'll burn it," he said.

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How many times does one need to be arrested in Pennsylvania before someone's concealed carry permit is taken away?

Or does someone have to be shot first?

Add this man to the list of so-called "law-abiding citizens" the gun lobby wanted America to trust carrying a gun in public...

...until he fired it at Tucson police, that is.

From the Arizona Daily Star:

When Adam Thran pulled a gun from the back of his pants and fired it, Tucson police Officer Shawn Ramsey ducked behind the closest thing to him — his motorcycle — and fired back.

When Thran continued shooting, Ramsey fired one more shot, then got on his police radio and yelled for help.

Moments later, it was over. Thran was on his way to University Medical Center. Three police bullets had ripped through his chest and stomach.

He lived. The 25-year-old man spent six weeks in a medically induced coma; underwent nearly a dozen surgeries; lost his gallbladder, several feet of his intestines and 60-plus pounds; fought off several potentially deadly infections; and contracted hepatitis C.

But he lived.

The question now is what should come next for him.

David Berkman, chief criminal deputy county attorney, believes Thran should go to prison.

Thran was indicted by a Pima County grand jury on 14 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and four counts of endangerment.

...

Thran had a concealed-weapons permit and had taken gun-safety classes. He said he always had done everything "by the book."

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Someone should tell her that chicken's dead long before they put it in the box.

From the Tallahassee Democrat:

Christie Murphey said she was upset when she shot herself in the thigh at a McDonald's drive-through Wednesday, not because of the wound, but because she didn't get her large chicken McNuggets meal.

"I didn't even get my food," she laughed, "I was starving."

Murphey was checking a .45-caliber semi-automatic in her purse when it fired, striking her in the thigh. Tallahassee police arrived at the McDonald's, 1944 North Monroe St., and found Murphey holding napkins against the wound.

She was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for treatment. She said she is home stitched up and on "some good medication."

The gun belonged to her boyfriend who had a permit for it. It was impounded by TPD.

"We support legal gun ownership," said TPD spokesman Officer David McCranie. But he said people who decide to get guns should have professional training on how to handle them.

"It could have been worse."

"Should" have training?  How about "should be required" to have training?

Good thing her boyfriend's a concealed carry permit-holder, otherwise an incompetent gun handler might have shot herself with it.

Oh, right.

At least Murphey lived to laugh about it.

Little stories like this provide windows into how under-reported crimes and misdeeds by concealed carry permit-holders really are.

This one barely caught an editor's attention in the Webster-Kirkwood Times:

Police stopped a 2002 Ford truck on Laclede Station Road near Arlington Avenue at 11:45 p.m., Sept. 25, for speeding 47 in a 35 miles-per-hour zone and weaving over the center line. They arrested a Brentwood man for failing to appear on a traffic charge in St. Louis County. The arrested man had a valid Missouri Concealed Weapon permit and a Taurus pistol.  State law does not allow for a person with an outstanding warrant to possess a firearm, even with a concealed carry permit.  Formal charges are pending.

So, apparently this man had an outstanding warrant and a concealed carry permit at the same time.

Maybe the gun lobby can explain where along the line he stopped being a "law-abiding citizen."

And then perhaps hell will freeze over.