One Pennsylvania Mayor Gets It Right
While most PA politicians are wringing their hands over figuring out how to disarm Pennsylvania residents so that only the criminals are armed, one mayor has a smart editorial:
The politicians currently in power will not combat violence through aggressive criminal control. Instead, they will deal with criminal violence by eliminating your ability to defend yourself by having you believe your government will always protect you.
Democrats and at least one local Republican in the Pennsylvania Legislature recently convened a committee of the whole to discuss new gun-control measures. The new gun-control proposals all failed, as most of our state legislators know that gun control does not curb gun violence.
However, local Democrats in the state House and in Congress continue to harp on the notion that reasonable gun control is the only solution to the continuing bad acts of the very few. There are many politicians that want us to call the police when faced with danger because they believe that we, as citizens, are incapable of protecting ourselves.
Not many people realize that we have no individual right to police protection. Read again: None of us has any right to police protection. This premise has been repeatedly affirmed by our state and federal courts. Why, then, as I know you are wondering, do these politicians perpetuate the belief that gun control, with only the government having guns, will make us safer?
The answer is simple. Politicians do not trust armed citizens. Moreover, the politicians will say or do anything to make people believe they are actually doing something about criminal violence and they are sensitive to all of your needs.
The problem is that many politicians, along with the press, despise people who want to be self reliant and defend themselves. This is evidenced by their many attempts to demonize the greatest known equalizer to a threat of violence: A privately owned firearm.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. For those within voting distance, the author, C. Scott Shields, Esquire, is mayor of Rutledge and a Republican candidate for Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
He’d get my vote!
One Response to “One Pennsylvania Mayor Gets It Right”
on 29 Mar 2007 at 1:08 am # straightarrow
mine too. Honesty will probably end his career, though, as the sissies who fear defending themselves and wouldn’t consider defending their families will not take too well to the idea of self-reliance, if they can buy into to the pretty lie that, without personal risk, they can rely on the cops to protect them.
Sorry, I am not too enamored of my fellow citizens of late.