>Particularly significant is the term "well regulated" used by the founding
>fathers. I hold that firearms held by individuals are a menace to society.
>Statistics bear me out - a private firearm is more likely to harm than
>protect
>its owner or a loved one. This is very different from firearms carried by
>members of a well regulated force.
I agree wholeheartedly. I personally do not feel safe with a firearm in my
house for "protection" nor do I really like the idea of people in my
neighborhood owning firearms.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, if someone decides to break into a
house, chances are they have some kind of weapon, and I'd bet that many
times it is a gun. And then what? Will you have a showdown in your own
house?? And chances are that if you're not a criminal breaking into
someone's house with the intent of theft or murder, you probably some
concern for human life, and might find it hard to actually do what you felt
had to be done. The criminal, however, has no doubt been pushed to the very
brink of his breaking point, and I'm sure it wouldn't take too much to send
him over. Another person pointing a gun at you threatening to shoot you, no
matter the circumstances, just might do it...
Unfortunately (again), in America, with our distrust of everything comes our
distrust of police, and it's now to the point of outright hostility towards
police. Many people see the police as an extension of the government, of
"the man," and think that it is the police force's job to make life hard for
everyone. Anyone, individually and socially, can only take so much of that
kind of abuse before something breaks, and I think in the US's case, the
police begin to make themselves fit the mold that the people make for them.
The people then feel justified, the police are confused and so not
preforming as best as they could, and no one quite knows what to do about
anything.
It is a real pity that Americans frequently make police out to be the "bad
guys." But then, who in America sees anyone as the "good guys?" Everyone has
someone to complain about. But I suppose nothing would get done if we
didn't.
Brian
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