(Thanks 4dogs. I just get passionate about this subject)
They told me that they would respect the law. I canceled my membership on the spot.
Buckshot, I totally agree with you. I'd be right up there on the front line with the revolutionaries fighting for my rights. Our forefathers "broke" the law....English law and if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have a country. When governing a people creates fear and oppression, that government needs to be dismantled. (if I'm not back on here in the next couple of days................)
only a tiny fraction of the violence (gun or otherwise) comes from people being killed in their homes (or even walking down the street) who are not somehow involved. Its mostly people with guns killing other people with guns, and most of those involved are criminals.
I'm sure that is true, that the vast majority of victims of gun shots are criminals themselves. But tell that to the families of the female college students' out for a jog on campus, who were dragged behind the bushes, raped and/or murdered. Tell that to the minimum wage convenience store owner who has no protection when someone comes in threatening him or her. Recite statistics to the female real estate agent, alone, a sitting duck holding an open house who gets raped. When I was an agent, there was a rash of rapes of this nature in the area I worked.
A friend of my son's who lives in the next state over had a thug come up from behind him in a large parking lot, hold a gun to his head and demand his wallet. And believe it or not, a month later, a thug, not sure if it was the same creep came up behind this young guy's mother who was about to get into her car after shopping in broad day light, put a pistol to the back of her head, demanded that she hand over her keys and purse, pushed her down and stole her car. Now, why on earth these people who live in a less than desireable area don't carry a gun on them, I'll never understand. I'd love to see the split-of-a-second look of surprise on the face of my attacker, just as a bullet leaves the chamber.
There are loads of innocent people who have their homes broken into, get assaulted on te street, in parks, in convenience stores or gas stations. If you think it only matters that
statistically, more victims are criminals themselves, well....I don't understand the relevance in statistics such as this when we're talking about human life...innocent human life.
As far as that law
requiring the members of that town to own guns, perhaps that is not right either, from a legal standpoint. However, I personally think it is the moral duty of every citizen to take part in preserving our rights, our safety and most of all, our freedom from oppression. Having guns and knowing how to operate them, which really isn't very difficult is a moral duty to assist in protecting our neighbors and ourselves from violent crime. You see what happens when everything is left up to the government, federal or local.