The question should rarely be why cant you carry, but why dont you - TopicsExpress



          

The question should rarely be why cant you carry, but why dont you carry? If a terrorist took you and 20 other people hostage in your favorite coffee shop, would you want the ability to do something about it? Would you want the choice whether to do something about it or not? Might you wish /someone/ inside the shop had a gun other than the terrorist? In Ferguson and similar communities, maybe it isnt the police departments responsibility to bring peace to the community, but for the community to bring its own peace and for the police to maintain it. Maybe the problem police departments are having with public relations is police are trying to do something the residents should be doing themselves. So perhaps the reason some people dont carry is threefold. First, they dont want the option to do something when something needs to be done. Second, they dont want the choice to do something if they had the opportunity, and third, theyve chosen to make their safety and the safety of people around them to a third party without appreciating the 3rd party cant be everywhere all the time--without surveillance and the attendant erosion of privacy and personal liberty that comes with it. Of course, if you live in a peaceful community with low crime rates--good for you, good for your neighbors, and good for your police. Perhaps your communitys safety is a virtue more of its distance from higher crime areas, its prosperity, and its demographics than it is anything else. Its an interesting presumption that people would pretend to think globally and act locally when they cant even think of nearby cities when they wish to pass laws based on a suburban paradises, or think only of the present and not of the past or uncertain future. Too many people are provincial even when they pretend not to be. And apparently, Mrs. Roosevelt and liberals like here werent as provincial as the liberals that followed her. Was her permit concern for her own safety, or a statement about preserving choices for your safety 57 years later?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:53:13 +0000

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