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John Cole draws analogies to Roe v. Wade. I’m no scholar of the court, but that seems fitting.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what it will mean since I first saw the headline this morning. Okay, it is now absolutely legal to keep firearms in your home as a means to self-defense. I’m fine with that. Should someone intrude or invade your privacy, I guess you should have the right to blow holes in their kneecaps. I’m not too terribly concerned with that.

And, considering thugs who already carry guns around in public, no law will abate such behavior, criminal or not. Thugz will be thugz, yo.

What I am concerned with (again, on a kneejerk basis) is the wanton recklessness this could lead to.

Could it really get worse than it already is?, you ask.

Yes, I fear.

I am afraid of the slippery slope leading from “self-defense,” in the “home,” to the use of firearms anywhere one so chooses. Someone cuts you off in traffic? Bam! They’re dead, or at least hurt bad. Someone picks up your newspaper by accident (antiquated example?), sorry, suckah! Boss fires you for what you consider to be no real reason at all? “Fire” his ass, just like that!

I know, i know, these things already happen. I guess I just worry about a more-permissive atmosphere for them to happen in. I worry about the spread of guns. I worry about increased usage.

Tell me, should I quit worrying?