CONCEALED CARRY: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS HERE
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Good lord, the thing with carrying guns in Starbucks has become a theme in Doonesbury this week. A certain kind of lightweight yuppie seems to morbidly fear those who are comfortable with a power they can’t imagine themselves wielding.
Some fellas just need to unbunch their panties and take a look at real world responsibilities. In a nation of some 320 million people, well under a million police officers simply aren’t enough to proactively protect everyone. Do the math. Self-defense is a natural personal responsibility, right up there with first responder emergency medical abilities. Those whose stomachs are too weak to accept their own capability in this regard seek to denigrate those who do live up to their responsibilities. Sad, really.
Such people have for decades opposed the carrying of handguns for personal protection by ordinary citizens, wailing that “blood will run in the streets” and there will be “shootouts over parking spaces.” Of course, that hasn’t happened…but reality doesn’t seem to get in the way of their stridently-voiced panic.
THIS LINK confirms that despite the fact that guns have proliferated greatly in the last few years – and so has the ability to legally carry them loaded and concealed in public – the rate of violent crime has gone DOWN during the same timeframe.
