Conceal carry laws make something dear to you, a source of power, less effective and more easily manipulated by others. It is immoral to make laws that make protecting yourself more difficult. What if you were forced to keep your wallet locked up and could only carry it with a permit? What if having your wallet on your person could get you arrested, because it’s not fair that you have more power than other people. What if your economic capability were kept by others and only doled out to you as they saw fit? Then of course when they measured it out to you it would always be a little light, all those fees and inflation. This is almost what has happened. A few powerful people exploit that power and use it to control the mass. Instead of a broad distribution of power, which means that any error is a small error you have a concentration, which reduces both diversity and freedom. Any error is a big error. This is the same in martial maters as well as matters of mammon. To exert monetary force is the same as exerting violent force, which is why women are attracted to strong men and rich men. Possibly now more to the latter, because now they have the state to take care of the violence for them. Nothing says hypocrisy like calling the men with guns, because violence is wrong.
It should be assumed that everyone is carrying a gun. Just like you assume a large man can attack you, so you don’t piss him off. Rather than make a big deal about everything, you let a lot of things go. This is the basic human dignity, and respect. And this is the fundamental problem with cops they don’t let little things go. In fact they emphasize little things, in an attempt to find larger things. They pass a million annoying little laws in the hope of trapping someone that broke a big law. Of course when they do catch them, 60% of the time, they don’t do anything, and even in the most exacting cases we are capable of, the convicted finish out their lives on death row at the expense of the community they have wronged.
This is the main problem with policing instead of deescalating situations, they drive around seeking whom they may devour. The reasoning is that they are the good guys, the reality is that they create conflict often out of thin air. In response to this they are forced to make excuses often, that it is for the greater good. And they are forced to treat everyone as a criminal, instead of treating everyone as a threat going about the business of good. Which is actually what the law demands, innocent until proven guilty.
What if you went around picking fights with everyone over every little thing like Larry David? You would get a lot of fights, a lot of conflict. While it might make for a funny show, it makes for a messy culture. this is what we now have. And to create a class of people who must be bowed down to for the common good is just BS. If police want to be respected they should earn it. Twenty four year olds with three weeks training and a gun are not worthy of respect any more than the average person on the street.
A more sensible approach would be for the government and it’s agents to assume everyone is innocent and to leave them alone, until they commit the large crime and then to punish them as Romans 13 states. Those lesser infringements are the purview of the family. When Jr. is acting up you correct him, so that the infringement doesn’t not become a large thing. When your brother wrongs you, you correct him so that it does not become the power hungry politicians abusing their paper power or violent offenders abusing their physical power or women abusing their deceptive power.
This is brought out by the Ahmaud Arbery case. These civilians acted the exact same way the police are required to act, every day(looking up details to refine my hunch one of the shooters was a former cop). They assumed guilt and acted on it, quite reasonably. This in turn provoked Arbery to act to defend himself, which is natural. Fight or flight is natural and to be expected and even trained. These citizens then took these actions to be proof of further guilt, just as the police are trained to do. Making natural reactions a crime and proof of other crimes, because we work for the state, is the foolishness we are entangled in. The work of the citizen should be the same as that of the police. To leave people alone until there is an actual crime. Then to discover who committed that crime, with the force of all the people, the state, and to bring that person before a representation of the people, the jury, to decide if they are really guilty before the law as understood by the people before God. Then the people wield the sword on behalf of God who has deputized them to do so.
Apparently the McMichaels assumed he had a gun, and made the decision to put themselves at risk for the sake of justice for a number of local robberies. They acted just as the cops would. What makes no sense to me are these very poor choices when faced with overwhelming force. He didn’t bring a knife to a gunfight he brought running shoes, and he didn’t even use them. You think you are going to start slapping someone who has a gun and a friend with another gun? That is about as stupid as it gets. And this has happened many times. It seems to me if you though white people were all racists who wanted to kill you, you would run. Or better yet, find out what they wanted and resolve things peacefully.
The judge said “I believe that assuming the worst in others we show our worst character,” This is what the McMichaels did this is what the whole culture and force of our system requires that we do. Because there is no actual justice, wronged citizens are forced to assume the worst, and act upon it. Why do we assume? Because we live in a world of unaddressed evil and we get suspicious. And looking at it more the judge suppressed Arburys prior criminal history. Why was that debatable? Because we all know the system did not serve justice to him in the past. We know he didn’t pay his debt because our system does not require that, ever. Once you are in the system you are always guilty, that is what our unforgiving culture does. And looking further he was on probation for having a concealed weapon at a school, who cares and running from the cops, who cares. Which in our system were probably a euphemism for an actual real crime he did commit, that was plead down to this. These men were convicted of doing what the cops are required to do every day.
Some other thoughts on that case. The guy in the back, in his car, filming the shooting was convicted of aggravated assault, and three felony murder counts. What a joke. And to bring race into it is just ridiculous. If they just hated black people why didn’t they just shoot all of them? Was this the first black person they had ever seen? When McMichaels was a cop he shot every black person he met? No the worst they could come up with is that he missed some training. And they knew it was a bad case which is why no one was charged until mobs of fools misinformed by the lying media made a big racial deal out of it. It really is sick. There is no justice in our land.