@Big City Boy,
Perhaps fiction isn’t the best foil in a comparative analysis. Do you mean that the Second Amendment wasn’t meant for urban living? Perhaps the freedom of the press was only meant for the small movable type presses of the 18th century? Certainly not this new fangled and out of control internet form of press.I suggest we put forward an amendment to the Bill of Rights that they aught only apply to cities and towns the size of Philadelphia circa 1790. Would that avoid the Blade Runner scenario?
Don’t take my following points too seriously as I don’t have the time and current access to find the name of the author or a book written by him in which he discusses the figures which point to shrinking violence when people know that any civilian might be armed.
I grew up and lived in LA plus I’ve lived in NYC. Neither of those experiences created a perspective in which I feel that citizens should not have the ability to defend themselves to the fullest extent of their Constitutionally protected right. Driveby shootings and various other violent crimes are generally committed by criminals with weapons they obtain on the black market. How about you stop coming up with excuses to take away our Constitutionally protected freedoms.
