The Right Answers

Concealed Carry 2
Life is a precious gift from God. We each get only one. If you lose yours, it can’t be replaced. And it’s yours alone; you can’t sell, give, or lend your life away. But there are evil people who would take your life, even though they can’t use it themselves. Innocent people have a moral right to protect their lives from evil people who would take those lives.
Good people form governments to protect their lives from evil people. Our government provides some protection through police. But the police can’t be everywhere at once. Even if they could, we wouldn’t want them to be. We can’t have complete protection without giving up our privacy and our freedom from warrantless searches, wiretaps, and random arrests.
So we have conflicting desires. We want government to protect us from evil people, but not too much. That conflict leaves a gap in our protection, and through that gap fall innocent lives. We have a moral right to protect our lives, and the government can’t do it. How can we fill the gap?
One possibility is to supplement the efforts of the police by looking out for each other. Watch our children every moment. Walk them to school. Avoid going out alone, and after dark. Lock doors. Watch neighborhoods. Report suspicious activity. Light up yards. These are good, sensible measures. They help, but don’t provide complete protection. What would?
Some Democrats in the state Senate think that if we had more gun control laws to keep you and me unarmed, then the evil people would leave us alone. They won’t. The evil man makes his living breaking laws. Breaking gun control laws is all in a day’s work for him. Those legislators may choose to risk their lives for their theory. But they have no right to risk ours.
A person willing to break into your house, kill you, rape your daughter, and steal your property is a person who made a conscious decision to break the law. He’s evil, but he’s not stupid. He looks for victims who can’t fight back: the small, the weak, the unarmed. He knows he needs power over his victims, so he carries a gun. And to avoid being caught, he’s willing to use it.
We innocent civilians aren’t stupid, either. We know the cops can’t protect us and that passive measures only go so far. We know we must protect our own lives. But if the evil people are armed and we’re not, we’re sitting ducks, whether we’re in our homes, our cars, at the ATM, or walking in the park. We have a moral right to defend ourselves, but lack the means to do so.
That’s why more innocent people need to be armed, which translates into concealed carry permits. Armed citizens will support the police in actively protecting their communities. With more armed citizens, we’ll all be safer. If this interests you, write, call or e-mail your state legislators to support House File 1360 and Senate File 1395.
Get involved in protecting your right to protect yourself and your loved ones. It’s your moral right. It’s The Right Answer.