If a bad guy with a gun had decided to walk onto that train and start shooting people, I would have been prepared and able to use my gun to defend my own life and the lives of everyone else on that train, including yours. [More]Nope, sorry. I've never cared much for the sheepdog analogy. That and I hold no illusions.
If others happen to benefit from me protecting myself and mine, that's just the breaks. I suppose I'd be more inclined if true innocents were being threatened rather than probable enablers who hold me in contempt, or the just plain willfully oblivious.
A story I've always hated is Disney's version of "The Grasshopper and the Ants," with its unearned happy ending. Me, I'm an Aesop man.
It's the reason why I have no sympathy for a wish expressed by some gun owners that we had our own Bloomberg-style money angel. Yeah, just latch on to another excuse to do nothing.
[Via Michael G]
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