Letter in the Dallas Morning News along with my Reply Letter

[Right2Carry]

[jimlongley]

My reply was:

Yes, malls should be safe from violence, but turning them into "gun free zones" merely makes them target righ environments for crazies bent on going out in a blaze of glory.

The Violence Policy Center's statistics notwithstanding (you don't actually believe THEM do you?) the best deterrent to massacres like Omaha is armed citizens, like Jeanne Assam in Colorado Springs.

As for the big nasty government crushing any rebellion, maybe a quick glance at history would indicate something different - check up on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and there are many more examples, which go so far as to include the American Revolution.

The Second Amendment protects a pre-existing right, and taken in contest it even goes so far as to include arms beyond rifles and handguns. Recall that the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had the recent rebellion fresh in their minds, and that the battles at Lexington and Concord were about the (legitimate and quite ruthless) government's attempt to seize cannon and ammunition from those who were in felonious rebellion.

The Second Amendment is as relevant today as it has ever been, and it has always been about an individual right.

Since I just had a letter published last week, I don't expect it to be published, but if we unleash a bunch some will get through.

Midgen's piece was published as OpEd rather than a letter.

[numist]

Regarding part of Midgens letter in that he thinks narrowing down the entrances so that security can....
I guess he means those un-armed security guards that the malls employ?

[Jungle Work]

The "Big Question on Guns" is whether Citizens are better off with or without a gun in a Public Place, such as a Church, Mall, College, etc...

I believe a Lady Civilian Volunteer with a CHL by the name of Jeanne Assam answered that Question a couple of Sundays ago.

Jungle Work

[Photoman]

Regarding part of Midgens letter in that he thinks narrowing down the entrances so that security can....
I guess he means those un-armed security guards that the malls employ?

The idea of security guards running metal detectors at malls will never happen. I think TXI made a good case for that in another thread where he calculated it would cost something like $30k a month. No mall has that kind of security budget. Besides, it wouldn't do any good anyway as the pimply-faced slacker would just shoot the guards and go right on in anyway.

It really is amazing how out of touch with reality these people are.

[propellerhead]

Midgen's view.

[casingpoint]

Only his hairdresser knows for sure...

[cstierhoff]

I am not a wordsmith but I am glad there are some here in Texas.

CS

[lawrnk]

Another response to Galvestons paper

http://news.galvestondailynews.com/stor ... d6e557fdf7



Joe Horn of Pasadena shot and killed two men suspected of breaking into a neighbor’s home.

Vigilante Justice Isn’t The Law Of The Land

In response to Tom Hildebrand’s letter “America needs more killer vigilantes� (The Daily News, Jan. 3): Your home has been invaded three times. Sounds like you need a better security system. And, no, family heirlooms are not worth killing over.

All of us will die someday, and we won’t be taking these material possessions into our graves, will we? Aren’t our experiences more important?

Sometimes deadly force is necessary — I totally agree. But not on men fleeing a neighbor’s home. If they had shot and killed these burglars, the public (well, not you) would have been all over the cops for their actions. You don’t think our prisons would be full if more people shot these “scum’s of the earth,� but I disagree.

The courts and police cases would certainly be clogged with cases such as Joe Horn’s. People should use common sense and discharge their weapons on others only when they feel their life is in danger, but I don’t think Horn’s life was in danger at that particular time.

His neighbor (if he was home) had every right to kill these guys. Horn did do one thing right — he called 911.

Robert English
Galveston



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Some Laws Don’t Seem Fair

Regarding Tom Hildebrand’s thoughts on the incident with Joe Horn’s actions (“America needs more vigilantes,� The Daily News, Jan. 3), I probably couldn’t agree more. But I have to say I have only listened to the 911 call on the computer and kind of had mixed feelings.

He basically took the law into his own hands after being repeatedly given instructions by the law on the law. I kind of feel sad for him as he self-incriminated by calling the police in the first place and threatened actions that he would take if officers did not respond to his sense of timing. After all, it was not his house, and he did say he did not know his neighbors that well.

The laws have changed so much in every aspect. I have had to learn myself — some laws just don’t seem fair but must be abided by. I do wish Mr. Horn luck.

Rosalynn Muir
Galveston