Years ago I had learned about criminals and victims and the system which deals with them. I have no doubt that the increased firearms sales has occurred because countless other women recently have learned similar lessons. In these days of burgeoning rights and entitlements, mostly nebulous and manufactured, we wonder what became of the fundamental right to life and liberty. We know that the law-enforcement agencies have neither the resources nor the obligation to protect us as individual citizens. We know who arrives on the scene first when simultaneous calls are placed to 911 and the pizza parlor.
Criminals take their victims when they want and get away with the pizza too.
We know that the proportionately rare arrested criminal will probably be on the street again before his victim is buried or released from the hospital. If he is one of the few who is convicted and sentenced, his stay in prison will be both expensive and short, and his right to privacy and social aid will be strictly observed when he is released among us. Many women believe the law-enforcement official who said he needed more prisons and a criminal justice system which would put criminals in the prisons and keep them there rather than more policemen to capture and recapture the same criminals from the present revolving door system. We know that gun control laws will no more keep guns out of the hands of criminals than the controlled substance laws keep drugs away from illegal users and distributors. Those laws make criminal coddlers feel good, but they erode individual liberty and responsibility while masking the real issue - criminal control.