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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 878869" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>When it comes to gun control and the limiting of firearms in society, a natural response is "who will protect me if I'm unable to have a gun for that purpose?" The natural right to defend one's self is long established so then the next question would be as to the means and thus the great gun debate. But also in this debate are those who argue for the removal of guns while stating that it will be the police as in, "it's their job" who will protect us. </p><p></p><p>Wendy McElroy has written an interesting <a href="http://mises.org/daily/5651/To-Serve-and-Protect-the-State" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">piece </span></a>looking at the legal position of just where the requirements are on police officers in their duties to protect the public. There are too numerous examples of officers going beyond these limits but the legal facts still stand and should be included IMO in any debate when it come to limiting any right and means of self defense. </p><p></p><p>I happen to agree that there are too many firearms in American society but my belief in the root cause of this is best explained in another thread where I posed 11 questions on the matter. Those questions are so obvious as they are self evident IMO. Let's also just say that the <a href="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/government-is-force/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">root cause</span></a> of the purveyance of firearms in American society is the same entity some would look to in order to limit them and then control the very "protect and serve" apparatus this post is about.</p><p></p><p>"Protect and Serve" has never meant what we all thought it was suppose to mean because "WE" are not the one's being "protected" and "served!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 878869, member: 2189"] When it comes to gun control and the limiting of firearms in society, a natural response is "who will protect me if I'm unable to have a gun for that purpose?" The natural right to defend one's self is long established so then the next question would be as to the means and thus the great gun debate. But also in this debate are those who argue for the removal of guns while stating that it will be the police as in, "it's their job" who will protect us. Wendy McElroy has written an interesting [URL="http://mises.org/daily/5651/To-Serve-and-Protect-the-State"][COLOR=#ff0000]piece [/COLOR][/URL]looking at the legal position of just where the requirements are on police officers in their duties to protect the public. There are too numerous examples of officers going beyond these limits but the legal facts still stand and should be included IMO in any debate when it come to limiting any right and means of self defense. I happen to agree that there are too many firearms in American society but my belief in the root cause of this is best explained in another thread where I posed 11 questions on the matter. Those questions are so obvious as they are self evident IMO. Let's also just say that the [URL="http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/government-is-force/"][COLOR=#ff0000]root cause[/COLOR][/URL] of the purveyance of firearms in American society is the same entity some would look to in order to limit them and then control the very "protect and serve" apparatus this post is about. "Protect and Serve" has never meant what we all thought it was suppose to mean because "WE" are not the one's being "protected" and "served!" [/QUOTE]
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