Doug Huffman
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Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. This misguided subject would play right into the hands of the right-wing gun-grabbers.
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Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. This misguided subject would play right into the hands of the right-wing gun-grabbers.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/mailbag/article_c8629964-ac4a-11de-9d45-001cc4c03286.html
Steve Zanon, Middleton | Posted: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:15 am |
Madison Police Officer Derrick Jones, who just returned to work, was injured in a crosswalk in September. Ironically he was acting as a decoy pedestrian a short while earlier.
The State Journal recently reported on a child walking to school who received a serious head injury in much the same way Officer Jones was struck. It seems this kind of thing is happening more often - a pedestrian, jogger, bicyclist or an Amish family in a buggy being struck and killed. What's more, it doesn't seem like an urgent problem to anyone.
I don't see much difference between injuring a person accidentally with a car or injuring them with a gun. What is different is that mishandling a gun is considered criminally negligent, and is punishable, while negligent stupidity behind the wheel is becoming ordinary.
Let's pull officers off speed enforcement duty to have them watch for criminally stupid drivers. Replace speed traps with "your speed is . . ." signs and turn a Webcam on the cars and the speed sign. Mail tickets to everyone going 10 mph or more over the speed limit. Let's make it expensive to be a distracted, dangerous driver.
And Officer Jones - be careful out there.