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The Truly Dangerous Elephant In The Room
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When it comes to advice regarding strategies to avoid violent victimization in the home and in public, every media personality and retired big-city cop seems to be an expert. What always makes me want to reach into the television and grab these “experts” by the ears for a highly animated talking-to is their almost universal penchant for intentionally ignoring the most obvious of all home and personal defense tools—the firearm.
Guns have existed for hundreds of years and saved millions of lives, both from actual death and from the devastating physical and mental consequences associated with being the victim of a violent predator. There is a reason that we require our police and military personnel to carry them. |
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"It’s as if they believe these men and women who used to be awkward boys and girls like the rest of us are born with super-human qualities."
No, that isn't it.
It's that they're surrogates acting on government authority.
Rest assured, if the government could replace them with robots, no average human would be allowed to keep and bear arms again. |
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