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>>The only thing that would make me feel more foolish that carrying a weapon and not needing it is needing a weapon and not having it.
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>>How many times do you think he had to reload? And in all that time no one was proximate with lethal force and the will to use it.
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>Et tu, Charles? Do you really think it would be a good idea for all our students and teachers to go into the classroom packing heat, just in case?
Of course not. But I think restrictions on properly trained and vetted private citizens being armed are not part of the solution to the idea that sometimes bad people do bad things and need to be stopped. Citizens have a right to ensure their own safety, just as they must be responsible for their actions.
Entering my home in an unauthorized fashion would not be a good idea. I don't think that means the law abiding public has anything to fear from my having firearms. ( and no, even though Ohio is a concealed carry state and I have had a permit I am never armed in public nor do I feel a need to be - but if the way I live on a daily basis were to change, I would not hesitate. )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
