I read the article and was surprised that the last one-third was very pro 2A self defense. The author urged all women to be armed with pistols. She is very strong on personal empowerment t and women carrying an equalizer.
The poor woman author witnessed the deranged lunatic murder her husband right in front of her and he will be out of prison in ten years! So, if anybody has a right to write such an article, it’s this woman. Imagine the fear she lives with knowing this animal will be released. He should have been executed.
I have zero with the sentiments of the author with respect to individual responsibility in being aware of your environment and self defense. None whatsoever. It is advice everyone can subscribe to.
My contention is that this is the domain of the legislatures at the state and federal level to pass laws to criminalize stalking behavior, and the state and federal law enforcement agencies to detect those engaging in illegal behavior, putting them into a judicial system which is ostensibly guided by the rule of law to find guilt or innocence dispense justice as required.
I understand there are many who disagree with my stance, and I take direct issue with the assertion that stalking is a health issue and must be handled by the government.
EVERYTHING under the sun can be a health issue requiring government action. EVERYTHING.
Keep this in mind, when remembering that the Holy Grail of the Left has been, and still is, the total government control of healthcare. That isn’t an error on their part. It is because if you control healthcare, you control people.
And it is that mindset that the government needs to step in for everything that is a threat in some way, shape, or form, that has led us to this untenable state of bloated governance, so bloated it is unmanageable, sucking the very life essence of monetary responsibility out of the government and making it impossible to govern.
Worse than that, it allows the Government to take on a life of its own, which is wholly ungovernable by those who agree to be governed by it.
Some call that headless, unmanageable, unaccountable Government The Deep State.
It boils down to the question: What should a government do for those who agree to be governed by it? Beyond the legislative and legal aspects, I don’t believe the government should have a role in this at all.
But where we are right now, that means they have the full capability to force us to protect us from OURSELVES.
Which leads us down the path we are currently on, which is the assumption that our faceless, unaccountable, unmanageable Government knows what is best for us, will make the risk assessments and decisions on our behalf “for our own good”, as we saw them do in the last two years in the face of a COVID pandemic. (a real, honest, risk assessment, by the way, which was NEVER, EVER done by that unelected or elected body.)
Right or wrong, it should have been. OUR choice to make, not THEIRS.
This aspect is one small piece of it. But as George Washington is reputed to have said often, “Many mickles make a muckle” which translates to “Many small things add up to a large thing”.
This is why, the millions of mickles we put into government functions add up to a massive, unjust, unwise, and ultimately, ungovernable muckles.
And it is not just breaking us fiscally, it is breaking our freedom, as anyone (including me) was put at risk of the ability and freedom to work unless I conform to a mandate handed down from government knows full well.
We have to recalibrate this mind set, or our Republic is doomed.