Re: carry gun philosophy
Ken, I appreciate your opinion, but you really are very ill-informed and your opinion seems to be based in large part on a very politically motivated work of mostly fiction. If you would like to see some very real facts from both sides of the fence, I suggest you go to your local library and check out any book written by a man named Massad F. Ayoob. He is a well known and widely recognized authority on concealed weapons and self-defense and knows both sides of the gun arguement and will present the pros and cons in a straight forward style.
In one breath you state that guns should be outlawed. In the next you wonder how somebody got guns into a prohibited area. The answer to both is simple and similiar. It is a widely known and disturbing fact that criminals just WON'T obey the law! Terrible, I know, but it is the truth. So making laws banning something just don't get it done. It doesn't stop people bent on a particular course of action.
Having said that, let me ask you a question; Have you ever seen a Cop actually stop a crime (other than on T.V.)? Only very rarely, if at all. Police are reactive--not pro-active; they get involved after a crime has been committed, and yes, they may catch the actual criminal..but that is small consolation to the victim of a brutal assault or murder.
In America, our Bill of Rights, written into our Constitution, the very principals this Great Country was founded upon, gives EVERY American the right and the responsibility to protect himself as he sees fit. If you choose to rely on the Police to protect you and you believe laws are a good enough deterrent...well, good for you, you must be very idealistic. But there are other people who choose to be responsible for their own safety and just because you don't, or you live in a country that won't allow you to doesn't give you the right to say nobody should be allowed to protect themselves.
I no more expect you to take my guns away than you would expect me to force you to start carying one.
It's funny when you think about it. Anti-gunners want to force their views and beliefs on everybody else and take everyone's guns away. Pro-gunners just want to be left alone. We don't go around saying everyone should be forced to carry a gun. We don't call people who don't carry guns bad names. And we don't walk around waving our guns in anybody's face. You never read about somebody who is carrying legally doing something stupid. It's always the people who didn't have the right to carry in the first place, and they don't usually have the right because they've already proven they can't be trusted, but guess what, all the laws we already have in place don't deter them, other than to kill themselves when they think they will get caught, so they don't have to go to jail. So if you can figure out how to stop someone who doesn't mind dying...there are a lot of people in Iraq who would like to talk to you.
