Monday, November 22, 2010

COTD: An Armed Society Is A Polite (And Sane) Society

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » I join the not-flying list: ">At what point will the public say enough is enough?

I think that’s happening now.

In a backhanded way, I’m actually glad we’ve reached this point. Because the logic of hoplophobia has a kind of fragility to it; once anyone questions the most absurd manifestations, they tend to find that the same questions apply to more “reasonable” restrictions as well. We may have reached the point, after the Heller ruling, where sick-think is being destroyed by its own contradictions.

To wit: if you can’t keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists, criminals, and psychotics even with unacceptably extreme intrusions on liberty and personal dignity, why try to keep anyone from carrying?"