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Carl in Chicago wrote:
This is what I understand "vigilante" to mean: "A person who takes the law into his or her own hands," or "avenging a crime summarily, without recourse to lawful procedures."
I'm always amazied how a peson can refer to our supposedly representative government, in which we vote for the law, and then refer to having the law in our own hands, where it rightly belongs, as a bad thing...
The true issue at hand is, how did it get removed, and why is putting it back where it belongs looked down upon? Did we not just experience an election in which our society attempted to do exxactly that, en mass? Arguments about how misguided their choice was asside, how can this point be obfuscated in the midst of exercising it?
You'd think Democrats, who's name is derived fromt he word "Democracy," would understand this... But it's just a empty word now. Missing this point, the very foundation of their existance, proves they have an agenda that their name is merely a guise for misdirection. Pay no attention to the man behind the iron curtain...
Using deadly force to give the good guys a leg up when being victimized, is not being a vigilante. It's being a responsible, mature, decent person.
The law rightly provides for this, because it is logical. That is your due process right there! The law was made for this very purpose, and it was made through representative due process.
Competence with a firearm is not difficult to achieve. Neither is the clarity of mind and reason to deduce when it is both lawfully and legally acceptable to use it. children have a better grasp of the matter than parents offended by their own deliberate inability to protect their own children.
"Mommy, why aren't I good enough to protect, but that lady thinks her kids are? Am I not special enough? Is it because I put a grilled cheese in the VCR? Why don't you love me as much as she loves her kids? She doesn't even know me and she cares about me more than you do!"
I wonder how many children are afraid to say this to their parents, because they'll be punished by the same viscious attitude these same parents direct at gun owners? If you're willing to endanger your children by placing arrogance, lies, and political agenda above them, I can't imagine what else you'll do to them to suit your ego...
My son IS smart enough to ask questions like that. Most kids are. But when parents exercise the same totalitarianism over their children as they wish they could over others... Mine has never asked me these questions; he doesn't have a reason to. But he has told other parents that he doesn't feel safe in their presence because they have chosen to be helpless. With little to no guidance from me, I might add.
One parent, who's children he no longer wishes to play with, loves to proclaim upon entering his home "I work for EMS, we haven't got any guns in the house" every time I go over to his place... Like we didn't hear it the first 10 times... He knows it's an insult and loves to talk about it. I guess he likes his job security, huh? Or maybe he just likes stitching up the good guys, so he doesn't have to worry about getting attacked himself? My son beat me to the punch; "Well, I don't want to stay for the sleepover." I asked him "Is endangering your children really worth the opportunity to deliver these insults every time we meet?" Of course, he responded with the typical lies about how I'm the danger, etc...
It really made him mad when his son came home from MY place after a sleepover, talking about how awesome it was that he got to shoot a bunch of guns in the back yard, and told his dad he was wrong about how dangerous and unsafe it is. ;-) You haven't lived until you watch a 50lb kid blast a coffee can with a Saiga .308. Totally puts to rest the lie that kids can't handle guns. Even
truly powerful semi-auto rifles, not that pidly AR-15/AK-47 stuff. After emptying a 20rnd mag, all he said was "Wow, I'm out..." HA! From about 50yds, he put every round into about a 6 inch group. Standing, having never touched a gun before in his life.
They don't get to hang-out after school anymore (not my doing, jsut hateful Mr. Howdareyoudothatnowmysonknowsiamaliar exacting his totalitarianism any way he can, he's the dad, whatever he says goes... I think that's worse than physical abuse, but that's just my opinion), but they are in the same class together and still talk about how great it was and how dumb and angry his father is... On one hand, it's sad to see a child lose that "my daddy is a superhero" glint in his eyes at such a young age. But telling lies a child can see through will do that...
I think that's what the angry soccer parents are really angry about. They know that even a stupid child can see how prejudiced and false their parents' hate for guns and gun owners really is. A note to these parents would be, don't blame the messenger. If you don't want your kids to see you as a liar and someone who cares more for their politicals than the lives of their own children; stop being such a disgusting and reprehensible person! This is why these same parents don't want their kids around guns. Not because it's dangerous to their children's safety. It's quite the opposite. They just want to deprive their children of the knowledge and experience so that the lies will never be discovered. They know their kids are smart enough to figure it out.
One other interesting asside...
Some jerk always has to bring in the "when there are guns around, you increase the chance that arguments will be solved with bullets" lie.
Lets ignore the statistical landslide of PROOF that the OPPOSITE is true.
If violence is used to solve these hypothetical arguments so often, why does it not occur in the absence of firearms? Why would disagreements become any less civil than they already are? If it isn't 'escalating' to lesser forms of violence, why would something more extreme need be feared? It makes no sense at all. It's just another empty lie that doesn't hold up to the scrutiny of either logic or documented science.
Even people blinded by rage know that the punishment for killing someone is much harsher than punching them in the nose. Those who do cross this line are those who's conscience never learned right and wrong in the first place. They are the very reason why it makes sense to carry a gun at a soccer game.
