{"id":69643,"date":"2019-01-07T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69643"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:48:48","slug":"may-you-get-your-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69643","title":{"rendered":"May You Get Your Wish, Dumb*ss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Big Left – and its wholly owned subsidiary, Big Gun Control – is actively working to “other” the law-abiding gun owner – to make the law-abiding practice of a legal act something not done in “polite company”, or at least that company as practiced by the part of our society that considers infanticide acceptable and self-defense gauche<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Michael Schrader of suburban Detroit throws his two ignorant cents into the mix with this op-ed<\/a>. about an open-carrying Michigander at a Detroit-area McDonalds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago, my wife and I were shopping in Fort Gratiot, and we decided to stop at the Fort Gratiot McDonald\u2019s to have some lunch, as we have done many times before. We pulled in a parking space, turned off the car, and then spotted something that caused us to decide to go somewhere else.
In the few seconds it took for me to restart the car, we saw several customers hurriedly rush out of the restaurant with panicked looks on their faces.
What was it that we spotted? A man carrying a gun into the restaurant.
Because Michigan is an open carry state, it is quite legal for someone to walk into a busy McDonald\u2019s with a firearm. Why do it? Because it is your right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are some legitimate questions of tactics and manners to be asked – but then, one asks why Michael Schrader would ask the questions. Because it is his right…er, wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway – yes, he started trite. That merely cleanses the palate for the invincible ignorance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that there were Canadians in that restaurant, and they don\u2019t have the same gun culture that we have, how do you think that made them feel? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

By this “logic”, people with happy marriages should shut up about it, unless someone in an unhappy marriage is listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t speak for the Canadians, but I can speak for myself \u2014 seeing someone other than a police officer walking around with a firearm does not make me feel safe; quite the opposite.<\/em><\/p>

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And Mr. Schrader is entitled to his feelings – but they’re wrong. Carry permittees in the US are 1\/6 as likely to harm the wrong person, per capita, than the police<\/a>. That’s about 1\/36 as often as the general public – and I”m gonna guess it’s even steeper in Detroit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We next go from ignorant to stupid:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose that I am armed, too. Should I fire preemptively at the other person with the gun just in case that person is a \u201cbad guy,\u201d and take the chance of killing a \u201cgood guy,\u201d or should I hold my fire and take the chance that the other person will not be a \u201cbad guy\u201d or be a \u201cgood guy\u201d and think I am a \u201cbad guy\u201d and fire at me first?

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Tell you what, Mr. Schrader: ask the next shooter you see who’s carrying, but who is not any sort of threat to you in any actual way. Phrase the question at the top of your lungs, if you prefer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See who the police haul in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I speak for myself, and I am confident I speak for many others \u2014 I don\u2019t need armed vigilantes protecting me from criminals. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To borrow an idea from my friend Rob Doar – whether I carry concealed or openly (if I even owned guns, which I don’t, because they terrify me), I’m not protecting you. I’m protecting me and mine. If heaven forfend I ever am forced to defend me and mine from an immediate lethal threat, and so cause your smug life to be spared, trust me – it’ll be the least of my concerns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Left – and its wholly owned subsidiary, Big Gun Control – is actively working to “other” the law-abiding gun owner – to make the law-abiding practice of a legal act something not done in “polite company”, or at least that company as practiced by the part of our society that considers infanticide acceptable and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-69643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643\/revisions\/69645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}