Tick Slayer wrote:
If ordinary people shouldn't be able to have firearms for self-defense, particularly people known to be likely targets for attempted murder (e.g. women leaving their physically abusive spouses), politicians, including the president, should be subject to the same restrictions. And no fair using Secret Service. 
I'm sick of the rich and the powerful getting to live by a different standard. When they have to live and die by the same laws as the rest of us, I'll object a bit less to their attempts to disarm me.
I'm sick of the rich and the powerful getting to live by a different standard. When they have to live and die by the same laws as the rest of us, I'll object a bit less to their attempts to disarm me.There's an angle.
"So, just because you're a big muckity-muck you get special exceptions? I thought we were promoting being an everyday person. An everyday person with the right to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" - hard to have any of those when you live in fear of being robbed, raped, or worse.
Plus, its more efficient & effective than increasing the police force.
Oh. They want to increase gov't spending. Crud.