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Originally Posted by 99meters
Sometimes you have to know when to leave shit alone.
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Having lived in a neighborhood where a neighborhood watch made the difference between residents cowering in their homes and thugs finding easier prey elsewhere, sometimes you have to stand up and be counted. Especially when there may (or may not - especially at shift change) be one cop on your end of the county and his backup is 45+ minutes away. Dirtbags love passive sheep. That's why some states are exercising the moral courage to pass CCW and "stand your ground" laws. You're entitled to your opinions - that is until you're telling me criminals have more rights than honest citizens and I'm supposed to accept being a victim.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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