There are states you move to when you wish to have lower taxes on your income and states that have plentiful wild game, along with the freedom to bag a few. If for some reason you are a gun advocate and are sick of crime taking over our streets, you could live in a few states that might cater to your qualms, but none better than Florida. Sunny skies, plush beaches, beautiful people and the kind of stand your ground laws that make you excited to be carrying a weapon.
Did you ever get the feeling that the Keystone pipeline is an inevitable that is getting jammed up for as long as environmentalist can? Guns make me feel the same way. The more people scream about banning guns, the higher sales rise in response. Guns are more than a protected constitutional right, they are a big time business and the line of shoppers seems to never disappear. Anything that inspires big money can only be defeated by bigger money.
Moreover, the voice of those who use guns has made it perfectly clear that we need more guns in the hands of the good guys just to keep pace with the bad guys. We have to stop relying on law enforcement and make everyone a potential enforcer of the law. We must encourage criminals to stop and think about the risk of encountering a person who is prepared to shoot first and ask questions later.
What that means in the end is that we must put our laws where our mouth is by creating an environment that tests the theories. If Florida is going to create a state that starts teaching these thugs to be afraid, Florida must preserve the rights of the vigilante, rights that Florida forged into law. Many rats die in the science lab, but not because no one tried to keep them alive. Florida has to keep this lab rat alive for the sake of the experiment and for the sake of the argument.
Michael Dunn has the weight of a social ideology behind him on this killing. Zimmerman did too, but Zimmerman silenced the only voice that could send him to jail. Dunn has voices to the contrary of his recollection, but they are not fighting for the right to bear arms or the right to use them like Florida lawmakers intended in the making of state gun use laws.
If I had only been so clever as a young man, I would have told mom that I shot my brother with the BB gun because he was walking near me with that same look on his face that he had the last time he beat me up. What does she want me to do? Take the first strike, or protect myself and explain my motives later?
Since the choice involved a gun, mom probably charges Dunn with manslaughter (in accordance with Florida law) and I lose my gun for the summer, or until she forgets she is punishing me. Both punishments will hardly fit the crime....(sorry mom).
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