Bruce in West Oz
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I've heard and read with disbelief some of the tripe trumpeted by your Janet Reno, but then this .....
While driving to work this morning, I heard the following gem from our Australian Federal Justice Minister, Amanda Vanstone:
She was explaining why a decision had been taken to NOT allow the second police contingent to be sent to Timor to carry any sort of arms:
(I tried to commit it to memory, so this is fairly close to an exact quote.)
"Well, if you have a gun, and someone comes at you with a gun, what do you
have? A gunfight! But if you're unarmed, and someone comes at you with a gun, it's a whole new situation. It
takes a much stronger person to shoot an unarmed man."
If that's what passes for logic or intellectual reasoning these days, please
stop the world 'cause I want to get off! Is this woman from the same planet
as the rest of us???
Humans have an inalienable right to self-protection and self-preservation.
And that means using the "best means" available to them. If one of these
unarmed police is shot and killed (and I pray that won't happen), I hope
the family sues Vanstone and the Federal Government, citing them as accessories to
murder.
B
While driving to work this morning, I heard the following gem from our Australian Federal Justice Minister, Amanda Vanstone:
She was explaining why a decision had been taken to NOT allow the second police contingent to be sent to Timor to carry any sort of arms:
(I tried to commit it to memory, so this is fairly close to an exact quote.)
"Well, if you have a gun, and someone comes at you with a gun, what do you
have? A gunfight! But if you're unarmed, and someone comes at you with a gun, it's a whole new situation. It
takes a much stronger person to shoot an unarmed man."
If that's what passes for logic or intellectual reasoning these days, please
stop the world 'cause I want to get off! Is this woman from the same planet
as the rest of us???
Humans have an inalienable right to self-protection and self-preservation.
And that means using the "best means" available to them. If one of these
unarmed police is shot and killed (and I pray that won't happen), I hope
the family sues Vanstone and the Federal Government, citing them as accessories to
murder.
B