Rarely has there been such a series of events that make the foolishness of
disarming law abiding citizens more evident or the need for the ability to
protect ourselves, our families and our society more clear as what's going
on in the news over the last few months.

There have been a series of beatings of the elderly, from the bar main
beaten up by the very people so many depend on to keep them safe, a cop, to
old men and old women, some of the most helpless in our society, beaten
while others stood by and watched, doing nothing, to the most recent cast,
video of a car jacking, showing an old man trapped between the door of his
own car and the one beside it, beaten without mercy, unable to even fall
down, while half a dozen bystanders stood by and watched.  The media is
asking, how could this happen?  How could good, honest citizens, stand by
and watch such violence without doing something about it.  We know the
answer, don't we.

John, Greg, and others, you, and others like you are the answer to why.  All
who depend on law enforcement to do a job that they so clearly can not do,
no matter how much they may want to are part of that answer.  All who insist
that everyone else be disarmed for no reason other than your own, individual
fear of others, are also part of the answer.  All who claim that there is no
need for such defense in the perfect world you would have us all believe we
live in, are part of the answer.

Please, pay attention to what is going on.  Please, pay attention to the old
people being mercilessly victimized.  Please, pay attention to the violent
crime that can, and does occur while honest, law abiding citizens stand by
and watch.  Please, understand that this is a direct result of the very
dependence on others for defense of our rights, that you advocate on an
almost continuous basis.  Please, understand that, should you prevail in
your attempt to disarm the honest, law abiding citizens of this country,
that the frequency of such events is going to increase, that nobody is going
to step up and say "STOP".  Please, understand that you are advocating a
world where the honest and the law abiding have no choice but to live in
fear of anyone who would resort to violence to get their way, including the
very police you place so much faith in for your own defense.

We have repeatedly pointed to instances where someone, legally armed,
intervened to put a stop to violence.  Obviously, that did not impress you.
perhaps a series of events where nobody intervened will help you see more
clearly.  Be a potential victim if you like.  Expose your friends, families
and neighbors to the risk of unresisted violence if you must, but leave
those of us who could have, and would have put a stop to such events, the
tools necessary to do what you choose to delegate to others.  If you don't,
we all suffer.  I'd rather never to have to say, "I told you so" when you,
or your loved ones are the helpless victims.

Lee

The following took less than 5 minutes to find and read.  I'm sure you can
find many more references without trying real hard if only you will be
honest enough with yourself and with us, to look and understand what you are
seeing.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/10/27/charges-airdrie.html

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4142484

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070507cops-lawsuit,1,5024569.story?
coll=chi-news-hed

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/308240,CST-NWS-beat22.article

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=d3a4e114-bc60-4452-aa01-dde4cdc2be18

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It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of
vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE, D. D. 1860-1954