06.08.07
Are we to be trusted or not?
I read somewhere (and don’t feel like looking it up right this minute) that a government that distrusts its citizens is not to be trusted. And indeed, why should we trust those who project their own selves onto us? For that is what it amounts to. Those who want to prohibit others from the use of firearms “because gunfights will break out in the streets” are projecting their own base selves upon men and women of honor who merely wish to have the ability to defend themselves from the violent people who infest society.
There are many things I do not understand. The idea that one may carry a weapon all over a state, but if one wishes to cross the border to a neighboring state the weapon must be unloaded and locked away is ridiculous. What is it about crossing a state line that will cause someone to suddenly have murderous urges? What is it about crossing a state line that will suddenly remove the danger from common criminals? Well, if you’re leaving California, New York, New Jersey or the Northern part of Illinois to a freer state you could argue that one is no longer in jeopardy - but those are states which limit or prohibit the carrying of weapons anyway!
Locally we have a problem in that certain officials have determined that merely utilizing a motorcycle for personal transportation will turn an otherwise law abiding citizen into a murderous maniac - and have declared that carry permits are null and void while transporting oneself upon a motorcycle. This is idiocy, to say the least. The process of obtaining a legal weapon here is such that one must come out squeaky clean in back ground checks run by the federal investigators and local police. After running such a check and obtaining the permission to carry a weapon for self defense, why should that right be denied simply because of the mode of transportation one uses? But then, in the US of A, we also prohibit folks from carrying the means of self defense while on certain modes of transportation, as if crossing a terminal’s entrance will have a sinister effect upon one’s personality, converting a law abiding citizen to a depraved assassin merely by entering into a hallowed sanctum such as an airport. And places like Virginia Tech which prohibit lawful carry of weapons seem to think that their decrees are enough to keep their students and faculty safe. Indeed they feel that “the pen is mightier than the sword” - and wrongly, as proven by the despicable acts performed on V-T’s campus in April of 2007. Their penned decrees did nothing to prevent the tragedy, and much to enable it by ensuring that those who possibly could have curtailed the murderous rampage were unable to do so - because only the law abiding will abide by such an asinine rule.
Indeed we should be suspicious of those who wish to “pull our teeth”. Why do they wish us disarmed? It’s CERTAINLY not for our own protection as proven day after day in city after city around the world. Those who are disarmed are easy prey for the violent. So if they don’t trust us, why should we trust them? We must push and fight to roll back the asinine laws which disarm the law-abiding. We must push for stiffer punishment of those who wreak havoc upon our land.