Ducki Futards are funny's blog: "My So Called Life"

   Okay, so i'm reading this article of a woman who was legally packing a side arm and thwarted a car-jacking. Good on her. Now most of the comments weren't in praise of someone defending herself, if any at all. Most of them were the same people crying over gun control, and how the liberal dems are trying to take their constitutional rights away from them blah, blah, blah. Now while these are probably the same people who were all for the last administration's (anti) Patriot Act, it seems their biggest concern is keeping their guns & gettin' MORE of them!  FYI, I have done target practice at the shooting ranges, but I don't own a gun, nor do I intend to. While I totally agree with the right to defend myself, home and loved ones if necessary with a gun, fine. a revolver or semiauto 9 or 10mm pistol is fine. I guess it's the guys that running around buying up assault (style) rifles and ammo who kinda spook me out a bit.

And in regards to the 2nd amendment that's actually more in regards to the states miltia. Especially in a time when your gun was of "one-shot, take a minute or more to prep for the next" technology.

 Anyways back to the subject, wouldn't common sense dictate that we try and create a society where car-jackings, or other violent crimes DON'T happen? Seems to me if your society is educated and gainfully employed, & in general is doing well crime, goes down considerably. Now granted that is the broader strokes of a brush on a honking huge canvas but none the less, the most successful countries don't have an eigth of the probelms with crime that we have here. Let alone something that would nuture the feeling of the need to pack a gun.

 Oh yeah, for those who feel "When the goverment turns on us, I can fight back!"...yeah, lets treat it like poker shall we? "I'll see your modified assault rifle and Hummer (or the 4 wheel drive vehicle of your choice) & raise you an Apache Long Bow attack helicopter."

Intelligent opposing view points are welcome. "Have at it Hoss!"