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"Protected Class" and No Cause So Noble
Feb. 19th, 2014 10:13 amI own guns, and fully expect to get my Illinois concealed-carry permit at some convenient time. I doubt I'll actually carry - having gone 47 years without carrying, I see no reason to start now. It's not like suburban DuPage County is a particularly cut-throat place, and if it were, I'd move. (I don't have eyes in the back of my head, after all.)
At any rate, a conservative commentor, David French, posted an emanation stating that people who don't carry guns are: [a] protected class is a dependent class — not economically dependent of course, but dependent on the state in perhaps a more fundamental way (for their very lives) – and like members of other dependent classes, they are terrified of flaws in the state’s protective apparatus. Walled off from gun culture, they read the occasional, aberrant story of (legal) gun-owner stupidity or recklessness and cower in fear of a nonexistent threat..
This led to several liberal sites saying that people who carry guns are playing the movie Tombstone in their minds, waiting for a chance to shoot it out with somebody. Well, not so. I know several people who have carry permits, and they're not anxious to shoot anybody.
Having said that, there are some people who carry guns hoping to use them. For example, Michael Dunn, or the guy who killed a Navy vet because the vet was texting in a movie.
What we have here is a proof of Niven's Law: There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
At any rate, a conservative commentor, David French, posted an emanation stating that people who don't carry guns are: [a] protected class is a dependent class — not economically dependent of course, but dependent on the state in perhaps a more fundamental way (for their very lives) – and like members of other dependent classes, they are terrified of flaws in the state’s protective apparatus. Walled off from gun culture, they read the occasional, aberrant story of (legal) gun-owner stupidity or recklessness and cower in fear of a nonexistent threat..
This led to several liberal sites saying that people who carry guns are playing the movie Tombstone in their minds, waiting for a chance to shoot it out with somebody. Well, not so. I know several people who have carry permits, and they're not anxious to shoot anybody.
Having said that, there are some people who carry guns hoping to use them. For example, Michael Dunn, or the guy who killed a Navy vet because the vet was texting in a movie.
What we have here is a proof of Niven's Law: There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
