Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.22) on December 07, 2000 at 20:32:
Articles are written about the inability of the DC government to solve murders and that failure calls into question whether its residents can depend on government for their safety from criminal predators. Police cannot respond fast enough to prevent murder and if they cannot respond certainly enough to create deterrence, what are DC residents to do?
And we hear that witnesses are hard to find because they fear for their own safety. Why should that surprise anyone? Given the policies of the DC government to forbid people the means of protecting themselves, who would expect otherwise?
The author C.S. Lewis once wrote, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated: but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
The good people of DC are now being tormented for their own good by the misguide and paternalistic policies which keep the best means of self-defense, firearms, out of the hands of the innocent. The DC government owes abject apologies for this tyrannical torment they are doing.