“(Henry County Sheriff Lane) Perry wasn’t swayed by that line of thinking.Don't they also have a choice about tossing out uppity servants who forget their place?
“‘If a person thinks they need protection when they go in a bar, they’ve got a choice not to go there,’ he said.” [More]
This is the second arrogant "Only One" higher-up who presumes to limit your defense choices I've read about in the past 24 hours. Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner Ed Stone told us yesterday about Emory University Chief Craig Watson who...well here, I'll let Ed tell it:
After setting the scene, Representative Setzler asked the Chief whether he would prefer to see one of the fifteen or so people in the room with a gun put a stop to the killing.Craig and Lane have their guns because they're more trustworthy and have better judgment than the rest of us, you see. Just ask them.Chief Watson's response? He informed the committee that it was his feeling that more people would die if fifteen of the potential murder victims had guns than if the people were helpless, disarmed, and just waited for the police to respond and save them.
[Via Jeffersonian and Ed Stone]
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“‘If a person thinks they need protection when they go _in a bar
__, they’ve got a choice not to go there,’ he said.
Also, by extension:
"_anywhere in their car_"
"__to work__"
"_to class (at Virginia Tech)_"
"__to sleep in their home__"
?
But if one os a government official, or one of their minions, then ones life means something, I guess.
People in authority seem to have reverted back to the feudal days, except without the lords' responsibility to be loyal in turn to their vassals.
I take it then that Sheriff Perry would have no problem with his deputies leaving their sidearms locked in the armory when they go off shift. No need to carry since they can just choose not to go anywhere they'd need to be armed.
I like the equal protection under the law idea. However, instead of having the deputies cower in fear in the dark unarmed with the rest of us, let us all be armed, with some paid to respond to calls for help armed. All other do so by choice, as is their right. A simple concept, really. Remember, we are all responsible for what we do with that weapon.
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