Folks I Look Up To

There are quite a few bloggers out there that not only get me to their blogs daily, but actually wish I could write like they do. One Miss RobertaX is just such a blogger. Quite the wordsmith BobbiX is, and a fan-friggin-tastic bitter-clinger-flyover-country libertarian bent from which to smith said words is always quite visible in her writings.

Today's post sees some comparison between the current (now, what, four-day-old and counting?) riots in London and the city-fucking that occurred in the City of Angels* back in '92. In a land where self-defense is hard enough with the Law of the Land commanding a significant lack in the best tools for the job, but next to impossible with Scotland Yard coming down hard on those who have the audacity to fight back. Miss Bobbi then draws on the adage:

And armed individual is a citizen. A disarmed individual is a victim.

Truer - or more applicable - words, there are none. But that is merely the statement of fact. The truest justification for the severe application of violence resulting from violence comes from Miss Bobbi in the comments section:

I'm considerably more comfortable with lethal force used against persons in the act of harming others than when it is applied long after the fact.

That, right there, is why I read The Adventures of Roberta X each and every day. Well said, Miss Bobbi.



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