Posted by
KsReaganite on Monday, January 17, 2011 7:43:58 PM
It is with deliberate intent that I had not made a comment,
yet, on the rampage in Arizona that claimed six lives and injured so many
others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords. As I look at the political
aftermath, I cannot help but notice the abject similarity of the reaction from
the political conservatives and the political liberals: they both want to restrict
liberty more. Such an approach has become par for the course whenever cowardly
politicians are faced with an opportunity to help keep their jobs. The liberals, led
by one New York member of Congress, want to
further pare away the Second Amendment; the conservatives, led by another New York member, want to
create larger barriers between the ruling class and the ordinary citizenry,
barriers worthy of banana republics.
Unfortunately, such members of Congress only reflect a
deeply flawed misunderstanding of liberty within most of us. Somewhere in the
course of history we have come to believe that a free society must also be 100
% risk free and 100 % safe society. Not
only is such an assumption not true, but put into motion in the hall of power,
such thinking is positively dangerous to the very idea of liberty. An entirely
crime free society is one where there is no freedom and everyone lives in fear.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that Saudi
Arabia, North Korea,
and Iran
are places where ordinary crime is the rarest.
Do we really want to become like them? Some members of
Congress from New York
would seem to think so.
PS: Lest readers misunderstand, I am not a fan of guns and
do not own any. Nonetheless, I do support the Second Amendment just like I
support the entire Bill of Rights.