As discovered by John Hayward of Human Events, who also explores “Mayor Bloomberg’s journalist repellent system.” Few politicians have built up more expertise over the years on the topic of repellency than Mayor Mike; but on a more serious note, great observation by Hayward:
It’s remarkable how reliably the “why won’t you disarm your bodyguards?” question discombobulates the anti-Second Amendment crowd. They really don’t have a comfortable focus-group-friendly answer to it. The coldly logical responses – “because I’m more important than you, so I need protection” – simply do not sit well with the public. That includes people who might otherwise be content to ride in the gun-control bandwagon, until they hit this particular intellectual speed bump.
The question is not, “Why should you have a professional security detail while I must defend myself?” If that were the issue at hand, it wouldn’t be tough to answer the question. Instead, the ruling class finds it difficult to explain why they should enjoy armed protection while the rest of us are forbidden to defend ourselves at all, or must do so within an environment of complex restrictions that put us at a pronounced disadvantage against attackers.
Read the whole thing.
(Via Jim Treacher.)
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