Been there. I’m not a gun-lover (I support the 2nd Amendment as a necessary evil and because it’s the law whether anyone likes it or not), but I did like this museum. My toddler set off the alarms. Oops. Swift, effective, unobtrusive, friendly security.
Government is the necessary evil. The second amendment keeps it from becoming a tyrannical evil.
So, having the ability to take responsibility for your own security, and ensuring the sovereignty of the people is a "necessary evil"?
Pray tell, what is evil about the second amendment? I look forward to your enlightened response.
“My toddler set off the alarms. Oops. Swift, effective, unobtrusive, friendly security.”
Reminds me of the time I took a few little kids to the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox (when it was there and they had tanks there). One of the little “spastic” kids was “crawling” around on some historically rare sword display and apparently set off a silent alarm.
Wasn’t but a few seconds after I told the kid to get off of it, I was met by about 4 MPs.
“I’m not a gun-lover (I support the 2nd Amendment as a necessary evil and because it’s the law whether anyone likes it or not)...”
So why did you go to a museum displaying 1000’s of guns?
Necessary evil? The 2nd Amendment is now a ‘necessary evil’?
Maybe your next museum outing should be to the Snowflake Hall of Fame.
I think you’re on the wrong site, pal. You just called my country’s laws evil.
I’m stunned so many people have no idea of what “necessary evil” means.
A necessary evil is an unfavorable thing that someone believes must be done or accepted because it is necessary to achieve a better outcome—especially because possible alternative courses of action or inaction would be worse... In Common Sense, Thomas Paine described government as at best a “necessary evil.”...
The use of the term “evil” in the phrase does not indicate that the thing being characterized as a “necessary evil” is something that is generally considered an “evil” in the sense of being immoral or the enemy of the good. In Fuller’s use of the phrase, for example, there is no implication that court jesters are evil people, or having one serves an evil end.