Why Do They Always Take a Jab at the Positive?

I don’t often visit the Detroit Free Press, but, since I had a bit of time before I needed to attend to other matters, I stopped by their website and rooted around some today.

I found an article, from the 23rd of March, which relates the story of a couple recent happenings where private individuals protected themselves from gun weilding scum intent on nefarious deeds.  As the article reports,

"Applying the school-yard axiom that turnabout is fair play, would-be robbery victims thwarted their attackers in two recent separate incidents—one by facing down the alleged bandit in a standoff, the other by shooting a man in the butt."

I say bravo.  Of course the article goes on to caution the readers on reverting to the erroneous understanding of “The Wild, Wild West,” and State Senator Gilda Jacobs (D) quips,

"But do we want a bunch of vigilantes running around with guns to do the police’s work?"

displaying the usual scare language of “vigilantes” and reminding us of the wonderful “protection” the police provide.  Bah.

What gets my goat the most, though, is even the headline to the story is couched in negative terms.

“Gun toters halt robbery attempts."

“Gun toters,” they must be a motley bunch.

Posted by on 03/25 at 09:46 AM

  1. As I understand it, police have no obligation to prevent crime because there is no way for them to actually do so.  Police exist in large part to respond to crime by bringing law-breakers to justice after the fact.

    In reality-land, the only way to stop a crime from occurring is to be prepared to stop it yourself.

    Posted by marc  on  03/25  at  12:55 PM

  2. "In reality-land, the only way to stop a crime from occurring is to be prepared to stop it yourself."

    Marc, It’s too bad that more individuals don’t “live” in reality land.

    Posted by  on  03/25  at  02:45 PM

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