Reply #71: You have to realize [View All]

[Mythsaje]

that roughly fifty percent of us are left-libertarians. That means we believe that the government should help, but when it can't, or won't, we need to do it ourselves. The other half want the government to do EVERYTHING and will bitch and whine and moan because it can't or won't. "Protect me from this" and "protect me from that" and "there ought to be a law" even if that law is unenforceable, damned ridiculous, or downright tyrannical.

As far as I'm concerned, the "Oh, I can't imagine hurting anyone, even to protect myself or my family" crowd might as well be milling around in a field somewhere baaing and waiting for the Big Bad Wolf to show up.

Criminals LOOK for people like that. They deliberately TARGET people like that. That's how they operate. If they suspect that a citizen can and will defend themselves, they'll avoid that citizen like the plague...especially when there's so many easier victims to choose from.

You know what I'm saying.

People are scared, they don't bother to learn anything about defending themselves, and think that because THEY would be clueless, everyone else will be too. That it's about emptying a pistol into the intruder as soon as the intruder comes into sight. Those are the actions of someone who's OUT of control, not in control. But some people will never actually recognize the difference.