Pack vs. Herd - Walking

Pack vs. Herd - Walking about the cities, I've been amazed, really, at how few business have actually posted themselves to bar handguns (in the hands of legally-permitted gun owners) on the premises. The response seems to have been, in the great scheme of things, genuinely minuscule.

I noticed this while walking around the Minneapolis Warehouse District after my interview today. I filed it in my mental junk drawer, until I noticed this on Kim Du Toit's site today - a quote by Massoud Ayoob, made after Israeil decided to fight terrorist attacks on schools and students by allowing (and in some instances requiring) teachers and volunteers to carry concealed handguns - a measure that's cut school attacks in Israel to roughly zero:

"Of course, the politically correct hand-wringers want nothing to do with this. Sadly, being helpless themselves, sheep tend to instinctively fear anything with canine teeth. Many of them cannot distinguish between the wolf and the sheepdog, and thus fear them both equally."

I'm feeling rather like a peevish schnauzer today.

Posted by Mitch at July 16, 2003 01:22 PM