Giving A Shout-Out to a Powerful Post

This comes courtesy of In Jennifer's Head, where she muses on the feckless power of Just Paper:

We’ve all spent enough happy afternoons vanquishing paper foes at the range to know that paper doesn’t stop bullets. It doesn’t even alter the course of that ball of lead. All it does is provide us evidence of the shot.  A document to be reviewed in the aftermath.

A restraining order is much the same.  Not only can that piece of paper not stop a bullet, it cannot restrain a person bent on violence. We saw this play out a few days ago in Milwaukee.  That piece of paper required him by law to turn in his firearms, but it’s just paper.

That paper forbade him from contact with his estranged wife, but it’s just paper.

Much like our paper targets, it’s a document to be reviewed in the aftermath. Yet this is where the antis would have us place our faith.  In paper.  In laws. Officers that can only act in response to an act of violence and not in the direct prevention of.

Opening the Archive

To start things off, I'm going to cross-post these thoughts from over at The Cape Cod Ex-Pat.

If It Just Saves One Life...

Then, it's worth it.

So sayeth our Vice President:

Biden talked also about taking responsible action. "As the president said, if you're actions result in only saving one life, they're worth taking. But I'm convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm's way if we act responsibly."

Bryan Preston feels that [comments mine]:

By that logic, if it only saves one life, we should ban cars.
If it only saves one life, we should ban peanuts.

If it only saves one life, we should ban sports.
If it only saves one life, we should ban fishing.
If it only saves one life, we should ban alcoholic beverages. [Tried that once before and look what happened.]
If it only saves one life, we should ban hammers.
If it only saves one life, we should ban knives. [Jeez, don't give 'em any more ideas!]

Okay, by their arguments, if it's worth saving just one life, then it's time to remind these folks that in keeping unrestricted Second Amendment rights:

• If just one woman uses a gun to prevent a rape, it's worth it.
• If just one woman uses a gun to protect herself from the violently abusive ex who ignores his restraining order, it's worth it.
• If just one night clerk uses a gun to protect himself from a drug-crazed robber late at night, it's worth it.
• If just one woman uses a gun to protect her children and herself from an intruder, then it's worth it.
• If just one person uses a higher-capacity magazine's worth of bullets to protect him/herself from multiple assailants, it's worth it.