[Huber]

During good times or bad, the police cannot police everybody. They can at best control a small segment of society. The vast majority of people have to control themselves.

That is where the great moral traditions of a society come in -- those moral traditions that it is so hip to sneer at, so cute to violate, and that our very schools undermine among the young, telling them that they have to evolve their own standards, rather than following what old fuddy duddies like their parents tell them.

Sowell nails it!

[Savage Beast]

"During good times or bad, the police cannot police everybody... The vast majority of people have to control themselves."

During a recent visit, a relative from a Left-wing enclave, who seems to have bought the party line, recoiled in horror when I revealed that I have guns for self-protection. (I do not hunt and do not allow it on my property; my wife and I are vegetarians. The relative, incidentally, is not.)

"I think such things should be left to the police," she gasped.

"Out here? In The Middle of Nowhere?" my wife replied. "I don't think so."