I am going to say it and make a bunch of people mad but here it goes. The right of self-defense is an inherent right that belongs to every man, woman, child or animal on this planet and cannot be taken away by anyone. I get tired of this BS about having the right of self-defense taken away. For thousands of years men defended themselves without guns and still men every day on this earth defend themselves without guns from lethal attacks by animals or other men. Sometimes the succeed snd sometimes they fail.
In the recent case in NY where they fellow killed 4 (?) people using a knife all I heard was if only one of them had a gun. The fellow doing the killing didn't have a gun. All this crying about losing your ability to defend yourself without a gun or if onny I had been there with my gun make all of us sound like a bunch of lazy wimps. Ask a Navy Seal if it is absolutely necessary that he have gun to defend himself.
Now a gun can help equalize the odds between two people or a person and a bear but even if you are attacked by a bear you are not defenseless without a gun unless you want to just give up and cry about your rights being taken away. When a drunk or a criminal or whoever loses his rights to own or carry a gun he does not lose his rights to defend himself. He may now be a a disadvantage when someone else has a gun but all he has lost if the right to carry a gun. To me he hasn't show the responsibility needed to carry a gun and I don't feel one bit sorry for him not being able to.
He can still defend himself using the methods that have been proven for thousands of years. One of those methods is avoiding the situations where he might need to defend himself. Stay out of the honky tonks and bars for a start. Stay away from the drug dealers etc. Now when he runs into a situation that anyone else could find themselves in he can do the same as others and either run or fight with fists, knives or wits. He has the right to defend himself and can defend himselfl, just not with a gun.
Are we to the point that without a gun we are helpless? Are you so afraid that you can't get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom only 10' away without carrying your gun with you. Did you make it until you were 18 without carrying a gun or did you have armed guards surrounding you at all times. In other words are you hiding behind your gun and afraid to face the world except through the sights on a barrel?
Every time I hear someone declare that someone has had their rights to self-defense taken away or that they are defenseless without a gun it makes me want to puke to think that is what we are becoming as a society. A gun is just one more tool in our self-defense chest and a long way from being the most important (that grey mass of jelly between your ears should be number one) or the most useful.
The fellow who continually uses a 4,000 pound mass of metal so drunk he can't control it putting lives in danger shows he can't be trusted to look out for others whether he uses his car as a weapon or a gun as a weapon. Both should be taken from him unless he can demonstrate that he can be relied upon to control either or both. By taking his car or his gun we are not taking away his right to self-defense only some of the tools he could have used if he had not demonstrated that he can't be trusted to use either one safely.
{Rant Off} but no one can take away your right to self-defense even if they lock you in jail. You still have that right there until they put you in a grave and then it doesn't matter.
In the recent case in NY where they fellow killed 4 (?) people using a knife all I heard was if only one of them had a gun. The fellow doing the killing didn't have a gun. All this crying about losing your ability to defend yourself without a gun or if onny I had been there with my gun make all of us sound like a bunch of lazy wimps. Ask a Navy Seal if it is absolutely necessary that he have gun to defend himself.
Now a gun can help equalize the odds between two people or a person and a bear but even if you are attacked by a bear you are not defenseless without a gun unless you want to just give up and cry about your rights being taken away. When a drunk or a criminal or whoever loses his rights to own or carry a gun he does not lose his rights to defend himself. He may now be a a disadvantage when someone else has a gun but all he has lost if the right to carry a gun. To me he hasn't show the responsibility needed to carry a gun and I don't feel one bit sorry for him not being able to.
He can still defend himself using the methods that have been proven for thousands of years. One of those methods is avoiding the situations where he might need to defend himself. Stay out of the honky tonks and bars for a start. Stay away from the drug dealers etc. Now when he runs into a situation that anyone else could find themselves in he can do the same as others and either run or fight with fists, knives or wits. He has the right to defend himself and can defend himselfl, just not with a gun.
Are we to the point that without a gun we are helpless? Are you so afraid that you can't get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom only 10' away without carrying your gun with you. Did you make it until you were 18 without carrying a gun or did you have armed guards surrounding you at all times. In other words are you hiding behind your gun and afraid to face the world except through the sights on a barrel?
Every time I hear someone declare that someone has had their rights to self-defense taken away or that they are defenseless without a gun it makes me want to puke to think that is what we are becoming as a society. A gun is just one more tool in our self-defense chest and a long way from being the most important (that grey mass of jelly between your ears should be number one) or the most useful.
The fellow who continually uses a 4,000 pound mass of metal so drunk he can't control it putting lives in danger shows he can't be trusted to look out for others whether he uses his car as a weapon or a gun as a weapon. Both should be taken from him unless he can demonstrate that he can be relied upon to control either or both. By taking his car or his gun we are not taking away his right to self-defense only some of the tools he could have used if he had not demonstrated that he can't be trusted to use either one safely.
{Rant Off} but no one can take away your right to self-defense even if they lock you in jail. You still have that right there until they put you in a grave and then it doesn't matter.
