Your cover story asks the question, “Is it time to
re-examine the West’s extraordinary fascination with firearms?”
Uhmmmm … Extraordinary?
The West is rather
large and many of us live a long way from the nearest sheriff. Our
stupid government has put just enough pressure on the drug
suppliers to raise the price of drugs so high that any lazy
psychopath would be a bit nutsy not to get into the game.
Psychopaths on drugs do outrageous things to their friends,
neighbors, and anyone else … for no apparent reason, to us
straights.
If a citizen lives more than five minutes from
the nearest sheriff, it is not likely to be helpful to even dial
911. Hell, in some situations five minutes is maybe four and a half
minutes too long.
You neglected to mention one
exceedingly important statistic: Where there are functioning,
useful carry laws, there is significantly less crime. Apparently,
even these psychopaths can figure out that it isn’t as safe as it
used to be to assault a citizen if that citizen may well be
carrying.
And finally, I’ve only been taking
HCN for two or three years but considering what
seemed to be your general drift, I was exceedingly surprised to see
such a question on your front page.
D.B.
Cameron, DVM
Nevada City,
California
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Questioning our questioning.
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