Co-Conspirator

Yesterday I went to Zercool's blog where he had posted a comment from Sean, that Sean had left at Jigsaw's Thoughts blog.

Of course, I popped on over to see what all the fuss was about.  Essentially someone who appears to be anti gun engaged in a conversation with Julie.  Nothing really new or earth shattering in his argument and Julie, of course, handled it brilliantly.  When I got to the comments, Sean said...

"The fact that you would demand that Jigsaw stand meekly and get hurt or killed rather than fight back makes you effectively a co-conspirator with the attacker". 

I read that line and it was an ah-moment for me. I thought that is exactly what the defenders of criminals are; they are co-conspirators, but then they are in it for their own reasons and I am not sure I have any hope of effecting their thinking or their behavior, but as I thought about his statement, I thought, what about me?  What about you?

When, we refuse to take responsibility for our own safety, our own lives, when we sit back and find reason after reason to justify doing nothing, we are in effect co-conspirators with our attacker. Now, the main difference being that unlike many anti-gunners there is no malice in our actions.  Bad guys are bad and someone who doesn't prepare for their own defense is not really culpable in that manner, but by doing nothing or very little, we are helping them.  A victim of a crime does not deserve the blame, but why make it any easy on these people?  Why help them to cause you harm?  


JD at Guns, Guns, and Gosh Darn More Guns has an interesting post up this morning.