Posted on 04/02/2015 8:16:44 AM PDT by rktman
Polls show that gun owners cite self-protection as the primary reason they are armed. Their intentions are generally good and admirable. The gun-rights movement has done a great job making the argument for individuals to be armed to protect themselves and their families in their own homes. What if you are faced with a menacing home intruder and police are far away? In that situation, it makes good sense to be armed.
But there is an unfortunate lesson playing out for those who have armed themselves to feel safer—and for all of us, too. The gun-rights movement has worked hard to push an increasingly radical agenda that undermines both our personal safety and our civic fabric. To that extent, there is something almost tragic occurring here: The well-meaning citizens who arm themselves in droves, perhaps even in public, are in that very process threatening the peace and order they seek to preserve, and claim to uphold.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
And your reasoning, please?
Had Z been targeting, the firearm would have been at the ready, not tucked away.
“Polls show that gun owners cite self-protection as the primary reason they are armed.”
“Polls? What a joke. I don’t need a reason. Nor will I give one if asked.”
At my 60th HS Reunion a couple years ago one of the girls in the class (still slim and attractive at 78) told me she was going to wear 3 inch heels to the Saturday night banquet...her reason...’because I can!’
2nd Amendment is my reason...because I can!
If EVERYONE has a gun on them, criminals would be less likely to use their’s, for fear of being shot from behind.
Agreed. But so is regulating full automatics, light or heavy artillery, tanks...
sigh - more of the same “Wild West” argument. Not worth reading.
Only read it if you are in need of a vomit inducing diatribe. Talk about a wack-a-doodle.
This lefty is delutional, but I repeat myself.
Maybe it was for the Cuban constitution.
my sincere thanks for your OP here. alas, this is only
another example on how “dialogue” with such folk is
futile exercise
“Rule of law is essential for maintaining the peace in civil society. It is also an act of faith: People presume and trust that everyone else around them will act lawfully and safely. “
When the rule of law is perverted to the point where good citizens cannot protect themselves from bad ones, and in fact rewards the bad ones by various taxpayer funded channels such as cushy prisons, job training, and a death penalty that is never enforced, then it ceases to be anything a reasonable person can have faith in.
That is quite a mixed bag and does not deserve to be damned en masse. Job training is offered to any of the poor who care to apply, con or not. Being punitive for punitiveness’ sake is not a Judeo-Christian value. It is a worldly value.
Telling the truth is, though. And the truth be told- our ‘rule of law’ is mostly a ‘catch and release’ program which largely benefits lawyers who derive a steady income from being public defenders offering the most specious excuses for the most inexcusable acts, and then sending the offenders into comfortable incarceration for a brief time, after which they are released to begin the process again. All at the expense of the public, who gets to suffer the depredations of the two-legged predators, repeatedly. Have faith- in that? I think not.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.