[Bill Graham]

John Williamson wrote:
Bill Graham wrote:
Guns and gun laws
As a practical matter, I need a gun to protect me from not only a
knife, but nothing but the bare hands of any 20 year old. I am 75,
overweight, arthritic and half blind. (I don't drive at night) So,
it wouldn't matter t5o me whether the muggers carried a gun or not.
I would be just as vulnerable, whether in England or the United
States. I thought I had made that point when I told you they were
called, "equalizers". But, if your criminals don't carry guns,
that's great, and I hoope it continues into the future. Here,
however, many do carry them, and for sure I intend to carry mine as
long as I have some use for it. I don't intend to travel to Europe
again. I was there in the 80's and I carried my gun there too. It
was the last thing I packed before I left, and the first thing I
put back in my pocket as soon as I arrived. As a matter of fact, I
got it out of my luggage at the airport turntable and carried it
all over Western Europe. In those days, they didn't x-ray your
luggage. I wouldn't travel anywhere on an airplane today. The idiot
liberals have ruined any chance of that.

Why? Air travel is by far the safest way to travel long distances.
It's safer now than it was in the 1980s, too, if you check the
figures.
Oh. And another thing. I hate unenforceqable laws. Even if there
were no criminals on earth, and I never had any use for a gun, I
would still carry one just because it is against the law and they
can't tell whether I've got it or not. IOW, it is an unenforceable
law, and I am duty bound to break unenforceable laws. So, I have to
carry one whether I like it or not.

No you don't, you *choose* to be a lawbreaker and carry a gun. And the
only thing forcing you to break *any* law is you, there is no such
duty written down anywhere that I am aware of outside works of
fiction.
Unenforceable laws are a class of "bad" laws, and Spencer Tracy,
in, "Judgement at Nuremburg, said, "It is the responsibility, and not
the right, of good men to break bad laws."

You would base your moral code on the words of an actor, spoken at the
request of a Film Director, written by a scriptwriter at the request
of a Film Producer with an axe to grind, then? Or did that particular
work of fiction just happen to agree with your prejudices?

No, its just that he put it so well, and in the context of the motion
picture he acted in, it said an awful lot.....It reached out and spoke to me
in a way that I have never forgotten. Its too bad that modern pictures don't
have that kind of impact on people. Tracy's words have dominated my whole
life, and made me aware of my libertarianism.