Hello, I have to leave to Idaho tomorrow, just ...

checking in.

Anyway, there are millions of good people in America, for that matter the world has more good folks than bad ones. I wrote a note to a Colorado Senator about her idea that statistics rule - that one should just trust that next time one gets raped it will be different.

It is important that Colorado have safe schools, citizens and freedom from fears. I watched some of your performance as a member considering gun free campus laws. There is no evidence that having guns or not having guns will change the rape statistics, but the people that carry firearms - legally and without permission from the law, never have to wonder what would have changed if there had been a policeman present. They only know they had prepared the best they could for their own protection or for committing a crime against people that wouldn't resist - someone that was disarmed.

Most fears of firearms are fed by watching television and movie productions. There are bad people out there, there are many fine good law abiding folks deciding that the legislature is not concerned with their individual protection or are just stupid about the threat. The bad people and those deciding that the government isn't concerned about really protecting them -- they will both be carrying a firearm or other weapon for their peace of mind. You shouldn't restrict freemen and women from protecting themselves and their loves, that would be stupid.
Thank you for your concern, but put yourself in a beautiful young innocent body, in the dark with a rapist and tell yourself how you are going to live with the trauma. How many more criminals will strike before you allow your good citizens to assist in getting rid of the trash?

I want to make it clear that the government isn't good at protecting citizens. I also think that the individual is responsible for most of their actions and reactions in the things that happen in their lives. Mostly, one should only be good, and resist and fight off the bad, the government is going to ignore anything that isn't a threat to itself, unless it can make some money from it.

If I were king the rapist would be gelded on first conviction, emasculated on the second conviction and sold to China for body parts and fertilizer upon a third conviction. Aren't we lucky that I will never be king?