Today'z Chiaroscuro
C&C
Thing A:
From Glenn Beck CNN 4/20
yikes: DON CLARK, FORMER FBI AGENT [former head of Houston TX office, FBI]: Well, you know, I think we live in a society, Glenn, where law enforcement and the organizational structures should protect us. And that`s what we need to work towards. We need to work towards our law enforcement organizations being able to solve crime and being able to prevent crime. ...We need to make sure that we’ve got special services out there to pick up people who have illnesses and try to do something with that information. I don’t think that everybody that has a home or has a place here should have a gun and they can have a gun. But I don’t think they should be dependent on it, that I’ve got to have that to defend my family.
... I don’t think there’s a God given right to carry a gun.
...Certainly, in emergencies if you’ve a gun, if I’ve got one, we’re going to do what we need to do. But that should not be a standard of our society. We should have law enforcement. We should have things in place to protect us, to include 9/11.
yikes^2: DAVE GLOVER, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I agree with Don that we should have a government, and that’s the word he used, should, that can protect us. So we wouldn’t need to protect ourselves, but I don’t live in that world, and neither does Don.
Thing B:
I’m surprised no one else has written this column in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
The message is simple, Americans: Arm yourselves.
...I was a little disappointed when President Bush suggested the most patriotic thing Americans could do in these trying times was shop.
...Can you imagine how dangerous it would be for the handful of terrorists in this country if 250 million Americans were armed and on patrol against them?
That’s what I want to see.
...Sept. 11 demonstrated clearly to one and all that the government cannot protect you. It cannot protect your loved ones. It cannot protect our borders. It cannot even protect the biggest, tallest buildings...
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