Via Joel, Marko the Munchkin Wrangler explains Why the Gun is Civilization. A taste:
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force... When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me...Quite so. To expand on the old saw, "God created men and women, Colonel Colt made them equal." Posted by Ken S at March 27, 2007 06:37 PM | TrackBack (0) |The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats...
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Gimme a "hells yeah," people.
Posted by: Nightfly at March 28, 2007 09:01 AMhells, yeah.
and I will add that one of the beauties of a 'concealed carry' law is that I don't necessarily NEED to carry a gun; the bad guys won't know for sure if I have one or not. And hopefully they're not willing to take a chance.
Posted by: ricki at March 28, 2007 10:03 AM