I would prefer a society with far far fewer laws, and much more self reliance. However I am where I am. I therefore prefer to live barely within the laws of where I am, and be self reliant, depending upon myself and not upon society to secure my welfare.
I prefer to carry a weapon that puts me on an equal footing with anyone who desires to disturb me. In my locale, that requrires that I submit myself to a "fitness review" to purchase the right to carry a weapon so as to be able and ready to defend myself. I find this inherently ludicrous, but I pretend to bow to it, after all, I am where I am.
The police in my locale tend to be historians more than defenders. They defend me only by the generalized pricnicple that eventually they might catch you someday, if you break the law. They depend upon deterrence in a world that does not often recognize deterrence. Typically they show up after the crime has been committed and write down the facts, and file the facts in a report, and the report goes nowhere and does nothing. Historians, as I said.
At the crucial moment when I need defending, the police will not be present, but of course I will. I therefore prefer to be armed, and able, and ready.
I therefore choose to be armed from now on. I choose to take care of myself, to be responsible for my own welfare, to be ready able and willing to stand alone and to stand free against the corrupt. This is a matter of conscience, and I choose to do this. The actual license is but a detail, and not a truly necessary one.
Where do you stand?
I prefer to carry a weapon that puts me on an equal footing with anyone who desires to disturb me. In my locale, that requrires that I submit myself to a "fitness review" to purchase the right to carry a weapon so as to be able and ready to defend myself. I find this inherently ludicrous, but I pretend to bow to it, after all, I am where I am.
The police in my locale tend to be historians more than defenders. They defend me only by the generalized pricnicple that eventually they might catch you someday, if you break the law. They depend upon deterrence in a world that does not often recognize deterrence. Typically they show up after the crime has been committed and write down the facts, and file the facts in a report, and the report goes nowhere and does nothing. Historians, as I said.
At the crucial moment when I need defending, the police will not be present, but of course I will. I therefore prefer to be armed, and able, and ready.
I therefore choose to be armed from now on. I choose to take care of myself, to be responsible for my own welfare, to be ready able and willing to stand alone and to stand free against the corrupt. This is a matter of conscience, and I choose to do this. The actual license is but a detail, and not a truly necessary one.
Where do you stand?