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Should Cops Have Guns? by Susan Sherman In considering whether or not I am going to buy a gun I put NRA into Yahoo and found Mr. Mason's article. As a single woman living in the semi rural country, I am considering buying a gun. A woman up the road was recently robbed. Very frightening for her. she was tied up from 4 AM until her husband arrived that evening. My other neighbors dog was shot and the next day their house was robbed. I was raised on a farm and my father had me shooting when I was five years old. He wasn't a gun nut, it was just part of our lives, rattlesnakes, injured stock, skunks after the chickens,etc. I've never really given much thought to owning my own gun, since I left the farm, but the crime is just totally out of hand in our area. The police are run ragged, the jails are so full they have to let some of them out. It takes twenty minutes or more for police to get out here, because we are in the county and have to wait for a sheriff to come. My dog would defend me with her life, but then what? I don't think she is up to disarming anyone. And of course my other consideration is, the laws are going to be getting so tough, I better get one now, while I can. I know that sounds dumb, but I think it is a human reaction, maybe one that alot of people use, that wouldn't ordinarily buy a gun. Mr. Mason states that in 1994 4,211 women were victims of homicide, half from shootings. Isn't that another reason a woman should have one? Maybe we should make the laws so only women could own guns? As a rule, we don't go shooting down people in the street, rob 7-11's with them,etc.. We don't even use them to commit suicide. While trying to read up on both sides of the issue I found Mr. Mason's article. I am curious if he also advocates taking them away from our police? I beleive there are many countries where the police are unarmed? If I don't buy a gun, what does he suggest I do to protect myself, in the very real chance that my house is broken into? I don't think much about amending our constition, no matter how silly it may sound. It is a foot in the door, and what will be next? Freedom of speech? Or is it that the consitution, we so greatly expounded over the last two hundred years, had nothing to do with our country being so great, but the fact that it was a huge uninhabited land, with many natural resources, few people to govern, and virtualy no ways of good comunication? Now we have too many people, resources as minerals and lumber no longer available, more land being taken out of farming to become suburban homes. Maybe it wasn't our constitution that made us great, or even our poeple? Maybe we should just trash it and start over? While other countries have survived for eons, it is starting to look like we, and our ideas of individual freedom, are going to fail after 200 years. Maybe freedom doesn't work after all? Maybe people can't ake responsibility for themselves? But now i am way off my subject. |
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