Colonialism Has A Bad Reputation In The

One Bleeding-heart Type Asked Me In A Recent Interview If I Did Not Agree That 'violence Begets Violence.' I Told Him That It Is My Earnest Endeavor To See That It Does. I Would Like Very Much To Ensure - And In Some Cases I Have - That Any Man Who Offers Violence To His Fellow Citizen Begets A Whole Lot More In Return Than He Can Enjoy.

Anyone Who Willfully And Maliciously Attacks Another Without Sufficient Cause Jeopardize The Lives Of Others.

One Correspondent, Who Is Into Psychology, Notes That In His Experience People Who Are Hoplophobes Are Nearly Always Nutty In Other Ways, Too. Hoplophobia [fear Of Guns], Of Course, Is Not Simply An Attitude But Rather An Aberration In Which The Sufferer Clings To An Idea Which He Himself Knows To Be Unsound, Such As The Idea That Inanimate Instruments Have A Will Of Their Own Or That Lawbreakers Abide By The Law.

It Is True That A Victim Who Fights Back May Suffer For It, But One Who Does Not Almost Certainly Will Suffer For It.

The Proliferation Of Right-to-carry Laws Throughout The States Has Drawn Plaintive Complaints From The Criminal Element. They Feel That It Makes Their Profession Too Dangerous When The Streets Are Full Of "civilians" Who May Or May Not Be Armed. Poor Babies!