“Since when does the government shut down half of Massachusetts (stay in your house!) to catch one 19-yr-old? If everyone in Boston had a gun there would be no shut down. Just a dead 19-yr-old.”
This was an email sent to the Daily Caller yesterday in reference to the Boston bombings by the founder and president of the libertarian Cato institute, Ed Crane.
I have been wanting to post about this email since I read the quote but felt I needed to express my thoughts on guns and gun control first. That can be found in the two posts below this one.
While I don't think he presented it in the right way, I have to agree with what Mr. Crane says. Instead of cowering in their homes, waiting anxiously for this boy to be found, the town could have rallied together and rid themselves of this terrorist without the aid of the government. Because really, what's a 19 year old boy against a town full of people with guns and a vendetta against him?
But under the circumstances this wasn't possible and thankfully he was caught anyway. I just found Mr. Crane's thought interesting and wanted to share it.
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