Quote:

And if a few thousand take the EASY ROAD to justice over here annually, well chum....that's the price we here pay for "FREEDOM"!)



That's a boatload of hyperbole you got going on Dwight. It's not about "taking the easy road to justice". For example, here in Tucson there's been a rash of what the papers call "home invasions". Usually it's 3 or 4 armed thugs looking for drugs, but they don't always get the address right. Often they come in looking to shoot, and do just that. Now I would hope that I live in a safe enough neighborhood, since I'm a stone's throw from the Border Patrol training facility and there's lots of them in my area, but ya just never know, do you? So that's why there's a 12 gauge under the bed with some 00 buck shot.

So if some villains do bust into my house, I'm not waiting around hoping the cops will show before they shoot me or my wife. See, it's not about "handing out justice" or "freedom", it's about self preservation....the right to defend yourself against the evil scum.

Now this isn't something I think about all the time. I don't live a paranoid lifestyle, and generally think well of my fellow man. I don't carry my Taurus PT 945 when I ride, but there's something to be said about being prepared for the worst.