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Would a widespread right to carry arms make a community safer? : Comments
By Everett Themer, published 12/3/2015Advocates of Right to Carry laws tout study after study, all claiming to prove that enacting these laws has reduced and prevented crime across the country.
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As always you argue a compelling case, and have so again on this occasion ?
I won't quote you, but the essence of what you say is perfectly true ? We all have the legal right to defend ourselves from a violent attack, that 'right' is enshrined in our common law ! But we must NOT possess or use 'ANYTHING' in which we may 'specifically' employ as a means of defending ourselves, from such attacks ?
An example, you could walk around all day with a house brick in your back pocket, and if attacked by a crook, and the coppers asked why you hit him with the brick, '...it was the only means I had in which to defend myself...' ? You'd be sweet with the coppers and the law. Conversely, if you'd said, '...I always carry a brick around in case I'm ever attacked...', well 'technically' you could be charged with possessing and using an offensive weapon ?
A most often cited quotation IS MISE '...the law is an ass...' ? Never a truer word spoken !
Even a diminutive female, if she is victim of a violent attack, and defends herself with a large hat pin, and she admits to police she carries the hat pin specifically for that purpose, self defence, technically she could be charged ? Though any copper's who were 'imbecilic enough' to mount such a prosecution.......well ?
Specific doubts or minor inconsistencies that may arise awkwardly, perpetrated by some of these overly pedantic Defence Counsels, and there's a real moral imperative existing in the matter, there's always the old standby legislation available to investigating police ?
The often used, and generally reliable, 'Tarpaulin Act, 1905', S.85a (covers everything), including any of these 'tricky' minor irregularities, that can and are generally accommodated quite well therein ? Even instances of some minor injudiciousness, that may've been exercised by said, diminutive female(s) ?