Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by BOWSINGER
Check out the gang controlled areas of Mexico where your family dies if you do not cooperate.
In Mexico, regular folks go to jail for merely owning a firearm. There's you explanation for that. In a free society, gangbangers are afraid to show their faces for fear of being shot or strung up. Only with the cooperation of the state (ready to prosecute those who exercise social power against criminality) can criminal gangs rule the streets.
And that's how it is here increasingly. I saw people on those Ferguson threads (which I pretty much didn't participate in) asking why store owners didn't shoot the looters. It's simple. They didn't want to go to jail or ride the needle. The state routinely prosecutes folks who defend themselves and their property. There's a pharmacist from Oklahoma City who will attest to that from his prison cell.