The Predicament of Freedom
This recent incident, captured on video, illustrates a dilemma that we are facing with our system of justice. In this case, a woman pulls a gun on a student barber because the barber was cutting her son's hair too slow...
I'm assuming that this woman was carrying a pistol for self-defense, which is a civil right guaranteed to her by our constitution. I'm not assuming that she was carrying the gun legally.
Obviously, it's not the gun that is the problem, it's irresponsible stupidity that is the problem. You can blame this kind of behavior on ignorance, or anything else, but since individual freedom is dependent on individual responsibility and discipline, it's logical to say, based on this and other similar incidents, that not all people can handle freedom.
This is a good example of the problem....
So what do we do as a society — continue to try to deny those who can exercise self-discipline the right to defend themselves in futile hope of keeping guns out of the hands of people incapable of discipline? This might sound crude, but when everyone is armed, this kind of glitch will eventually work itself out on its own; there is no other way to be truly free.
As John Adams, the second President of the United States, and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights stated in a speech to the military in 1798, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Words proven time and again!
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