[Vision2020] Second Amendment Remedy

[Ron Force]

Hmmmm, lets see... whats more likely to get you killed? Driving into a high crime area unarmed, or pulling out your six-shooter and playing Marshall Dillon with the bad guys. "Yes sir, this here cargo's so valuable, I'd give up my life for it." 

Stuff can be replaced (and it's probably insured). Lives can't.
 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


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 From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
To: Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com>; Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Second Amendment Remedy
 

Easy access to guns and limited access to mental health services don't mix. 
 
One complaint about gun laws right now is that commercial truck drivers, who live in their trucks, are banned from legally carrying any weapons for self defense. Many are also required for their job to drive into dangerous high crime areas with valuable cargo. 
 
Donovan J. Arnold

From: Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com>
To: Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Second Amendment Remedy


From Knute Berger:

...Unfortunately, many pro-gun legislators in Oly are also pushing more and more to cut government funding. The result is an increasingly armed populace and fewer resources to identify and treat people who are mentally ill and potentially violent. Ian Stawicki, who shot down his fellow Café Racer regulars and the mom at Town Hall, was known to be mentally unbalanced by his family and friends, and he had a domestic violence record. Yet he was well armed and untreated.

A democracy needs an educated citizenry. An uninformed society, James Madison said, leads to “farce or a tragedy.” But a heavily armed democracy must also have a commitment to sanity and humanity. It does little good to say the mentally ill can’t own firearms if you can’t identify who they are, if you can’t disarm them and if you don’t have the resources to treat them.

Failing to follow through with sane policy also contributes to tragedy, as we’re learning the hard way. 


http://crosscut.com/2012/09/05/mossback/110281/seattle-shooting-ian-stawicki-gun-control/ 

 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


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