On 9/25/00, at 12:09 PM, ankara wrote:
>David comments:
>>- - The criminal knows that you are armed, so preys on others instead. The
>>altercation >between you is avoided altogether. (See Bastiat, "What Is
>>Seen And What Is Not Seen".) >If enough people are armed, the criminal
>>finds something else to do for a living.
>
>So, criminals look for victims who won't put up a defensive fuss, that is:
>the unwarry, naive, physically weak, defenseless... women and children?
Criminals prey on the weak and defenseless. Yes, women and children, but also
the poor, of all colours and ethnic background, the aged, the infirm, the
politically powerless. Ghod help you if you are an elderly, black woman with
arthritis in a poor neighbourhood.
There's a good book on the subject, edited by Don Kates -- _Restricting
Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out_. He gathered people with impeccable
liberal credentials, from a variety of categories -- Hispanic, black, American
Indian, female, Jewish, ACLU, etc. -- to write essays on behalf of gun rights.
It is the weak who are most in need of Sam Colt's "Great Equalizer", to
defend themselves against two-legged predators.
I wonder what would happen if the NRA or GOA set up shop, offering free firearms
training to Watts, the South Bronx, and Roxbury? Perhaps initially restricted to
women and to men over 60? Perhaps selling them concealable firearms at cost?
Imagine the reaction from the general public, gun control advocates, the target
community, and self-appointed blowhard representatives of the target community.
Now, imagine the NRA program is co-sponsored by AARP, NOW, and NAACP.
-- David Lubkin.
[ Context for non-US readers: ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union, NRA =
National Rifle Association, GOA = Gun Owners of America, AARP = American
Association of Retired Persons, NOW = National Organization for Women, NAACP =
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Watts (Los Angeles),
the South Bronx (New York), and Roxbury (Boston) are all relatively dangerous,
poor, minority neighbourhoods. Watts was the site of massive riots in 1968. ]
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