Law enforcement agencies, at every level of government, excel in post-hoc crime-scene analysis, personal criminal analysis, moral condemnation, and policy publications. Policies, however, don’t prevent criminality at times when preventive measures – commensurate with threat modalities – aren’t in place.
In short, you can’t stop a truck with a policy. And erecting truck barricades wherever a truck could be harmfully used is not possible.
Violent criminals, including terrorists, prey upon Americans in vulnerable situations, and our free culture presents many risks. It probably always has. Whether we now have more is arguable – we have to leave open the possibility that we just hear more about them through modern technology.
Americans have a 2nd Am. right to self-protect, and protect others, from immanent harm. American citizens are their own first line of defense. Policies promulgated by governments that frustrate an individual’s Constitutional right to self-protect, probably increase our risk.
In any case, common sense says we should not leave ourselves open to crime, and complete security from criminal events is probably not a duty we can responsibly delegate all the time.
That’s why the 2nd Am. is a Constitutional right, and not a revokable license.
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