Even as Democrats want to disarm us, Interpol is thinking citizens should have more! - Granite Grok

Even as Democrats want to disarm us, Interpol is thinking citizens should have more!

For years, Democrats have tried and tried and tried to disarm the US Citizenry, arguing that we are “not to worry – leave your protection to the Police” even as Grokster Steve points out, Government is under no compunction or legal responsibility to protect ANY particular person. None, nada, nein, no – so even when Progressives argue and stammer that you have no right to defend yourself (right, Deputy Dawg Shurtleff?), the Government they want has no right to defend you either.

Progressives want you helpless and defenseless all the way around.  Someone breaks into your house?  Someone is stalking you?  Someone comes into your store and starts taking your inventory?  Someone rips your car door open and carjacks you?  Sneaks up on you at the ATM?  Ah yes, once again, you’re screwed coming and going – not allowed to protect yourself as an individual and the Collectivist Progressives say “so sorry – no controlling legal authority to do that”.

Enter Interpol – the international law enforcement group – that is now starting to think (and SAY) “Hey, police can’t be everywhere – maybe arming citizens is a GREAT idea!“:

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Noble said there are really only two choices for protecting open societies from attacks like the one on Westgate mall where so-called “soft targets” are hit: either create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves.

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

We believe that the Right to self-defense is one that predates the establishment of Government.  While we do give up some Rights to belong to Society, we totally reject the Progressive binary status that we either turn over ALL of our Rights to a Hobbesian Government or that we live in total anarchy (and totally refuse to allow for any kind of mid-point between the two: their way or you are EVIL!).  Complicit with the Hobbesian model is absolutely no freedom at all – the essence of the police State posited by Interpol above.  How many of us would want to live in a country where we would get “Show me your papers” to cross over to the next block, enter the next building, and shop in the mall across town?   A Free Society (which we still amuse or delude ourselves believing we have) will very quickly degenerate to a Totalitarian one for the sake of “Safety & Security”.  To ensure that EVERYONE is safe from everyone else, a massive amount of spying, surveillance, and overt checking must be done?

Or, we trust our fellow citizens, in the large degree, to keep the essence of a Free Society, even as more and more are packing (and the Stats here in the US seem to prove this out).  Yes, ‘safety & security’ are lessened by definition and “risk” goes way up.  What we have forgotten, or have decided in a delusional type of way that we can have both Security & Freedom, that Freedom is not free.  There is a price to pay – not just in brave folks defending us but in that bad things can and will happen.  Freedom means that you are not isolated from those that wish to do you harm, just as it does not isolate you from the things that can give you joy.  Freedom requires self-responsibility and the lessening of dependency on the Collective, it requires that you take action and not outsource the basics to others or to Government.

What a difference – as it seems that while the world elites are trying to eliminate more and more people from defending themselves, a “global” entity comes along and says “maybe the conventional wisdom is wrong – pass out the pistols”!  Heh!  Those old white rich guys that the Progressives keep bashing were right after all with the Second Amendment!

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