At 8:38 AM -0700 8/22/97, Anonymous wrote:
We don't need disarmamant. We need armed responsible citizens forming their own militias. If we had that on a wide scale, we wouldn't need a professional army.
Here in Santa Cruz, graffiti spray-painted on the walls of businesses is a big, and growing, problem. And laws require the businesses to paint over the grafitti, or otherwise render it invisible, in a quick and timely manner. (The idea is that the grafitti is offensive to the sensibilities of others, or somesuch, and that it encourages rival gangs to counter with their own grafitti.) And yet can J. Random Businessman defend his property against this defacing? Nope. The cops say "Let us handle crimes." But they don't. There's a solution for taggers: snipers. (I'm indebted to Chip Morningstar for this succinct solution.) This is just one example of how lawlessness comes from the perception that ordinary citizen-units have been rendered defenseless against predators. Another example is that of the East Bay rapist, as reported on here by Bill Stewart. Can women get concealed carry permits in California? Nope. The cops say, "We don't want citizens armed...let us enforce the laws." Right, so that woman facing a rapist gets to wait for the cops to arrive, assuming she survives the rape. Or she can carry a gun, illegally, and perhaps survive. One more way the sheep become felons. (Cops of my acquaintance urge their wimminfolk, wives and sisters and daughters and friends, to carry guns in their purses., regardless of what the law says. A cop at the Sunnyvale Rod and Gun Club gave a girlfriend of mine pointers on how to use her Mauser HSc .380. The law is an ass.) --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."