A note on civil liberties
Originally published at The JFX. You can comment here or there.
I found this deep within the slashdot comments about the Virginia Tech shooting, and I pretty much agree with it 90%
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If the students were armed, as provided for by the 2nd amendment, someone could have dropped that guy early on and saved 30 or more people. Chalk up another bunch of deaths to the pussification of American citizens by the mommy government. There will be no correction, though; instead of people going “well duh, I should be armed in case some crazy bastard shows up in my face somewhere”, they’ll just take a bunch more of your civil rights away at the schools - restrict your movements, require papers, stick RFID tags to you earlobes, x-ray your colons… and a year or so from now, some crazy will do the same thing again, perhaps slightly more cleverly.
Ah, it’s so frustrating to hear news like this. All those people did not have to die. Learn to defend yourselves, and be willing to. Seriously. The government cannot protect you from crazies; you have to do it yourself. The government always arrives after these events - only you can stop them as they happen. Get licensed. Practice. Carry. Be a protector instead of a victim. When the government says you can’t carry here or there, fight like wildcats to reject this weakening of your ability to defend yourself and those you care about.
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The part i found important was that government can not protect us from crazy people. They have to do the best they can, of course. But, the only way they could possibly stop something like this from happening before hand is to be everywhere at once, and have a 1984 style government watching everyones every move. And of course no one wants that. Part of deal where you get the freedom to do whatever you want means that crazy people get to do whatever they want. The government and the police show up after the fact. You cant rely on the government for everything.
And its my belief that the government shouldn’t be responsible for doing everything for us… that just means that everything gets done with a half-assed job, and our tax dollars get wasted.