Lebell

Thanks for the complement. No, seriously. But as someone said, the two aren't in conflict.

I find it prudent to carry a gun the same way I find it prudent to have a spare tire in my car and a CPR mask in my first aid kit.

So far, I've never needed the CPR mask and I've only needed the spare once. And so far, I've never needed my gun.

But in the same candor, can you honestly say you've never read an article of innocent people being gunned down by some lunatic? And can you honestly say that you've never wondered in one fashion or another if it might have been you?

I remember reading just the other day on FARK how a CCW holder saved some woman from being bludgened to death by her ex. That is one story. I can get online and produce hundreds of stories where guns have stopped crimes.

Or just turn on the news tonight and look at the psychos looting in New Orleans. If I were in that town, I would have my pistol close at hand as I ferried supplies or people or whatever.

Like a flat tire or a heart attack, wishing all that away or putting your head in the sand and hoping it will never be you won't make it necessarily so.

Related, to that, I actually would support a stricter registration policy for gun ownership IFF the anti-gun side would cede what I believe the 2nd to mean: an individual right to gun ownership.

That way fewer guns in the hands of criminals without disarming the rest of us.

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis

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