+100 (is there an infinity symbol on here?)seamusTX wrote:Ever since the Guardian Angels were started (around 1980), certain police officials and professional fussbudgets have been complaining about "citizens taking the law into their own hands." They certainly don't want armed citizens on patrol, and I would be surprised if people in authority didn't tell neighborhood watch and other groups explicitly not to carry weapons.
<rant>Some government officials and many in the press have the mentality that police officers are the "new centurions," and non-LEO citizens should just keep their eyes straight ahead and mind their their own business. This attitude emerges most strongly when someone is prosecuted for self-defense, but also in the incidents where LEOs disarm CHL holders "for everyone's safety.</rant>
There. I feel better now.
- Jim
that whole "take the law into their own hands" is a trigger word for me. if the law does not belong in the hands of the citizens in which it was created for then in whose hands does it belong?
rant away man... <lights his Zippo and holds it over his head>