Reasonable Ignorance
Foreword: Often even after much thought most of us arrive at an idea which from a specific point of view fits and makes sense. I strenuously point out here in the beginning that I am as guilty as anyone and any regular readers will know that I include my trips into this kind of folly. For a beginner though I am going to start with a T.V. interview I saw last week, (The week of the tragic Tucson shooting in Arizona). A man expert in the field of public security who I believe has even written a book on the subject was being asked to offer advise as to how we as peaceable assembly proponents could better protect our selves as we continue our democratic way of living in the future. This man was not a “kook”. He spoke and appeared to be a “manly’ type that most of us would accept as a natural leader.
- 01/12/2011
- Okay in my Foreword I have explained that a man of apparent ability was being asked to advise how we could change our procedures when it comes to protecting ourselves in public gatherings from the “crazies and/or madmen”. In the front part of the interview he was giving substantive comments which convinced me that he had certainly given all this some studied thought. As it has turned out he has written a book on the subject. Then, at the end of the interview he went out on a limb and offered this –
- “The real most positive way for us to protect ourselves is if all of us in the assembly were armed.”
- Now this is where the thought of “Reasonable Ignorance” began with me. At first it is easy to see the scene where even a madman would not mosey strategically armed into a group of people with the intent of harm if in fact anyone of them could whip out equal armament and either stop any further action or to end it quickly right after the first sense of harm. Continue reading
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