Re the current furor over the existing DC ban on handguns, and their peculiar “storage regulations” concerning such long guns as the law abiding citizen might oh so generously be allowed to keep, the following comes to mind. Please bear with me regarding what might be the odd dumb question, as being a retired Piping Designer, sometime field engineer and or construction supervisor, I might not be the brightest guy around.. BTW, the following comments/observations are not limited to Washington, D.C., for they could apply to any number of other jurisdictions too.
The citizen is told that “you don’t need those things (guns), we are here to protect you”, this coming from police bureaucrats, and who knows, perhaps from some street cops too, though I doubt the latter. In any number of cases where the police have not responded in a timely manner when called, and it is not necessarily my intention to knock the police, the citizen ending up dead or injured, the courts have ruled that the police owe the individual, no particular service, protection or anything else. BTW, I do not claim that the police could be expected to be everywhere at once, nor that they should be..
Now then, we have a situation where government, in it’s august wisdom, opts to enact all inner of “gun control laws” enactments that essentially impact the law abiding, enactments that deny the law abiding the possession of handguns, either de jure or de facto, and which create “storage regulations” concerning long arms, that render them no more effective than sticks and stones ( see Washington, D.C. Law).for an example.
At this point, the following question comes to mind. WHAT IS THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN TO DO? Some would reference comment seen on JPFO‘s web site, perhaps elsewhere too, which offered the following BOHICA. This translates as follows. Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. Of course, our law abiding citizen could always prepare himself/herself to die, though this might not be to the liking of any number of people. Mr., Mrs. Ms. Law Abiding type could alternatively offer up to whichever of the several gods man has worshiped down through the years, prayers or perhaps the sacrifice of a brown and white spotted goat or cow. Unfortunately, in urban environments, such sacrificial creatures tend to be in short supply, which of and in itself, creates something of a problem. Seriously though, faced with the above circumstances, exactly what is the law abiding citizen to do? That earlier posed question remains.
Here, I will be crude, or perhaps blunt. The employees of the people, otherwise known as elected things, this from a likely no longer with us Pittsburgh Press or Post-Gazette columnist, whose name I do not remember are, re the legislation they enact, legislation that lays the law abiding open to criminal attack, are essentially having their cake despite having eaten it. This is demonstrated in the legislation they offer, Gun Control in particular.
So, once again, I ask the following. What is Mr., Mrs. Ms. Law Abiding Citizen to do when confronted on one hand by the antics of criminals, while on the other hand, they must face the antics of their out of control employees, who like horses that have gotten the bit in their teeth, are essentially running wild. I don’t have the answer, though possibly someone reading the foregoing might have something interesting to offer.
The citizen is told that “you don’t need those things (guns), we are here to protect you”, this coming from police bureaucrats, and who knows, perhaps from some street cops too, though I doubt the latter. In any number of cases where the police have not responded in a timely manner when called, and it is not necessarily my intention to knock the police, the citizen ending up dead or injured, the courts have ruled that the police owe the individual, no particular service, protection or anything else. BTW, I do not claim that the police could be expected to be everywhere at once, nor that they should be..
Now then, we have a situation where government, in it’s august wisdom, opts to enact all inner of “gun control laws” enactments that essentially impact the law abiding, enactments that deny the law abiding the possession of handguns, either de jure or de facto, and which create “storage regulations” concerning long arms, that render them no more effective than sticks and stones ( see Washington, D.C. Law).for an example.
At this point, the following question comes to mind. WHAT IS THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN TO DO? Some would reference comment seen on JPFO‘s web site, perhaps elsewhere too, which offered the following BOHICA. This translates as follows. Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. Of course, our law abiding citizen could always prepare himself/herself to die, though this might not be to the liking of any number of people. Mr., Mrs. Ms. Law Abiding type could alternatively offer up to whichever of the several gods man has worshiped down through the years, prayers or perhaps the sacrifice of a brown and white spotted goat or cow. Unfortunately, in urban environments, such sacrificial creatures tend to be in short supply, which of and in itself, creates something of a problem. Seriously though, faced with the above circumstances, exactly what is the law abiding citizen to do? That earlier posed question remains.
Here, I will be crude, or perhaps blunt. The employees of the people, otherwise known as elected things, this from a likely no longer with us Pittsburgh Press or Post-Gazette columnist, whose name I do not remember are, re the legislation they enact, legislation that lays the law abiding open to criminal attack, are essentially having their cake despite having eaten it. This is demonstrated in the legislation they offer, Gun Control in particular.
So, once again, I ask the following. What is Mr., Mrs. Ms. Law Abiding Citizen to do when confronted on one hand by the antics of criminals, while on the other hand, they must face the antics of their out of control employees, who like horses that have gotten the bit in their teeth, are essentially running wild. I don’t have the answer, though possibly someone reading the foregoing might have something interesting to offer.
