Lebanon County Judge Robert Eby, who said he also is a gun owner with a concealed weapons permit, said the law required him to return Hain's permit.The hell it doesn't. The only argument is about who's doing the fearing.
But he questioned her judgment, saying she "scared the devil" out of others at the soccer field.
"Fear doesn't belong at a kid's soccer game from any source," Eby said.
Has the ceremonial robe and illusory trappings of "authoritah" blinded you to the realities of Nature, you cloistered blowhard? I want predators to fear turning soccer fields into killing fields. And I want agents of coercion to fear infringing Liberty.
That kind of fear belongs everywhere.
I suspect when you say you want a place to be fearless, judge, you really mean you don't want the citizens to be.
Tough. Deal with it. You think just because you're a judicial "Only One" that fear of consequences is your sole province?
I'd say good call, but you made it clear you had no choice, and your snotty aside shows you just don't get it-- and that you would have preferred to relegate Ms. Hain to a perpetual state of court-ordered fear.
[Via Mike H]
that's funny, i didn't hear that the referee dropped his whistle, the coaches threw themselves to the ground wailing and gnashing their teeth, and that the kids ran screaming for the hills -- all upon the sight of a soccer mom with a sidearm secured in a holster on her hip.
ReplyDeleteyou'd think maybe they would have mentioned that. or quoted somebody saying, "i am afraid of guns," except, that sounds like a personal problem.
Now your scaring the white people again.
ReplyDeleteThe Blue Button Lovers will be so dissapointed.
Isn't this a victory?!?! YUCK!
CIII
As Jonathan said, "fear" is a personal problem, best dealt with through therapy, not legislation.
ReplyDeleteSomebody else's *feelings* are not sufficient justification for the infringement of my rights.