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George Pyle has been a newspaper writer in Kansas, Utah, Upstate New York, and now Utah again, for more than 30 years - most of it as an editorial writer and columnist. Now on his second tour of duty on The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board, he has also done a stretch as a talk radio host, published a book on the ongoing flaws of U.S.agricultural policy and, in 1998, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. His most active bookmarks are Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens and Tina Brown. And he still thinks the Internet can be used for intelligent conversation and uplifting ideas.

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Published on Feb 1, 2012 03:12PM

Above: Here's life with everybody carrying guns.

If someone says they want to be able to openly carry a firearm in a modern city without being considered a public safety hazard, tell them that openly carrying a firearm in a modern city - unless you are a uniformed police officer - IS a public safety hazard, whether the law says so or not. It might as well say so.

- Guns in the open: State should not pre-empt cities - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial

The mythical times of the Old West, where cowboys strode the streets with six-guns strapped to their belts, are dead, but gun-rights advocates in the Legislature are doing their best to revive them. They want to pre-empt Utah cities and towns from making it unlawful for people to openly carry guns. We wouldn’t bother to shoot at this farcical idea except that it already has passed a House committee by a 10-3 vote. ...

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