From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The British have long sinced being a free people. The fact is, the
>government is more afraid of armed citizens using their weapons against the
>gov't than they are of whatever outcry there may be over the occasional
>murder. Being armed over here isn't a guarantee you won't get murdered, but
>I suspect more robberies are thwarted by armed shopkeepers and customers than
>the other way around. Until the gov't is righfully afraid of its citizens,
>you can count on the criminals being afraid of neither.
>
>Scott Harmon
>--
>There was a newsworthy case in Miami today where five robbers shot
>a man four times in the back, his 14-year old son retrieved a gun
>from the house and killed one robber, seriously injured another.
>
>Steve.
Steve, & Scott,
Scott, you are partly correct about the government being
afraid of the armed citizen, if only because there is a mindset in that
of the electeds and the bureaucrats that is all pervasive. They think
that just because they hold official positions that they should have
the right to lord it over the rest of us, i.e., that we should defer to
their whims at every instance because they -- by virtue of their office --
know better. But they just didn't get that mindset overnight, its taken
centuries.
This matter is never going to go away until men realize that
simply passing the buck to government for what is supposed to be an
inherent responsibility of every citizen, cannot simply be delegated
without the loss of many other liberties as a result.
Too many people live in the ethereal make-believe world
where violence isn't suppose to exist. They grow up believing somebody
is going to wipe their chin -- and a few other things -- when is needs to be
done. Ergo, they have been raised to think that the police and other
bureaucrats are their foot servants, the politician are their butlers.
Their existence is like some Felini movie.
It is this mindset that has resulted in the kinds of hideous laws
that populate our respective law books.
It also explains the rather crass arrogance that occupies the
minds of those bureaucrats, as they see themselves as providing services
to people who, at any given moment, treat them as lessors.
Who could blame the bureaucrats for their attitude, when they
in their daily endeavors encounter people who should never be entrusted
with the simple task of voting, never mind the possession of an arm.
That attitude merely carries over to their dealings with us, the
responsible ones: we are in essence anachronistic, we don't fit the pattern
of the average citizen.
Of course, it doesn't help matters any, when members of the
various LE establishments foster the mindset that the average citizen
is too dumb to know about self-defence, which if you think about that,
says that the police are also too dumb to get it right as well.
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