Why the Citizenry Should Remain Armed

Via Publicola comes this interesting exchange chronicled at Armed Females of America. It’s an email conversation between Nicki Fellenzer, national spokesperson for AFA, and a self-described NYPD officer over H.R. 218 – “The Law Enforcement Officer’s Safety Act” that allows all law enforcement officers to carry concealed, nationwide, even outside their jurisdiction. Their police ID is their CCW permit.

The Armed Females of America opposed H.R. 218 because they believe, as I believe, that such a bill creates (or in my opinion, reinforces) a “special class” of citizens. Ms. Fellenzer does a yeoman’s job of trying to get that point across, but “Ranger,” the NYPD officer is having none of it. He’s special, you know, and “above the law” (his own words) and more deserving of “that little extra something” (again, his own words.)

Read the entire discussion, and remember “Ranger” when you hear people like Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard say things like

I don’t think people should have guns unless they’re police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have … ordinary citizens should not have weapons.

or Diane Feinstein say

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

They’re special. We’re peons.

UPDATE, 10/4, via Ravenwood:

“Anytime a person has a weapon, everyone’s in danger,” said White Settlement police spokesman John Clapp.

White Settlement is just west of Fort Worth.

Good to know what you think of us peons, Mr. Clapp.