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Big Jim, We experience the same thing here in some sections of the country. This is what happens when society tries to be "big brother" to everyone. There's not enough money to protect everyone all the time. In Nashville, if I dial for police emergency, it takes a good 20 minutes for the police to arrive. That doesn't help when someone's trying to bust down the door, or is already in and I'm barricaded in my bedroom. Even our Supreme Court has decided that it's not the police's job to protect:

"WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation." Read the full story here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Yet, the bureaucrats who want to force us to pay for their non-existent protection, propagate the myth that a government can take the place of personal responsiblity. So entire areas of our country make it illegal to own guns. Then when the populace, so frightened of the armed criminals ( who, of course, take over, ) stops reporting crime, the complicit media touts a decrease in crime. But even then, the crime rate rises in such areas:

"WASHINGTON (Map, News) - District residents have been the guinea pigs in a failed 30-year-old experiment in social engineering. Three decades of strict gun control laws have not made the capital city streets safer. On the contrary, since 1976, D.C. murder rate has increased 32 percent, and violent crimes committed during the first few weeks of 2007 by gun-wielding thugs are up a staggering 50 percent over the same period last year"

http://www.examiner.com/a-573391~Freedom_from_fear_is_also_a_right.html


Here in Tennessee, as in many states, we have state-issued permits that allow the law-abiding citizen to carry a handuns. It requires that one take a class which covers firearm law, self-defense law, gun safety, and practial shooting. Then one must pass both written and practical tests. Of course, there is no permit needed to own a hangun and keep or carry it on one's own property. It's sad that we need a permit to do something that our Constitution guaranteed as a right, but it seems that due to racism, many states, counties, and towns adopted laws against handgun carry to stop minorities from protecting themselves:

"The historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun control laws, and not in any subtle way. Throughout much of American history, governments openly stated that gun control laws were useful for keeping blacks and Hispanics "in their place" and for quieting the racial fears of whites.

'Racist arms laws predate the establishment of the United States. This is not surprising. Blacks in the New World were often slaves, and revolts against slave owners often degenerated into less selective forms of racial warfare. The perception that free blacks were sympathetic to the plight of their enslaved brothers and the "dangerous" example that blacks could actually handle freedom often led New World governments to disarm all blacks, both slave and free.'" Read it all here:
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/cramer/racist_roots.htm

It's not surprising that those who think they know best how one should live their lives, and seek to make laws to control others, remove their personal resonibility, and make them dependant, would borrow ideas from those who thought themselves superior to others.

A sign of the times.

Mike