With a bolt-action rifle and a telescopic sight, I could put a bullet through my neighbor from a hundred yards away as he crosses his living room.
Yes, and with my car at 55 MPH I can cross the yellow line and cause a most horrific tragedy. But it doesn’t happen because we trust one another to stay on their side of the line. Not withstanding the second amendment and I’m not trying to compare driving a car to owning a firearm. One is a privilege and one is a right.
I’m just taking about trust and the ability to cause tragedy. I trust my fellow citizens to own and to “bear” arms. I feel a hell of a lot safer at a gun show than I do at most any inner city back alley. The difference is between the good guys being armed and the bad guys.
The author apparently doesn’t know the difference.
I disagree. They're always telling you that, but I don't buy it. I think driving is a right, but running into other people or their property while you're doing it is not. I'm not saying that's the way the law's written, I'm saying that's the way it's really supposed to be. Can you imagine in the horse and buggy days if they tried to require a license to ride a horse or drive a buggy or wagon? People would have laughed their asses off. What's a car but an functional evolution of those "technologies"?
Yep...I feel extremely safe in church, because if a bad guy came in he wouldn’t know what hit him. I know that the church members won’t be shooting at me.