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...course, hindsight is always 20-20, and it's easy for talk show commentators and editorial writers to condemn Rowan when they have never been the target of death threats the way he has. Yet if the handgun had not been so readily available, what would Rowan have done? Probably called the police, which is what hindsight (and these very commentators) say he should have done in the first place...
Unfortunately for Rowan, that's the argument that the NRA has been making for years in its mailings, namely that our society cannot or will not protect average, law-abiding citizens from dangerous criminals, and that we must therefore defend ourselves, preferably, NRA gunslingers say, with our own Saturday Night Specials...
However, if Rowan merely had reflected on his own past positions, he would have recognized that his recent action points not to the weakness of the case for gun control, but rather to its validity. For once again, the mere presence of a gun can lead not just a hot-tempered youth or a bitter spouse, but even someone as rational and intelligent as Rowan is, to pull the trigger irrationally...
...editorial piece, Rowan wrote that he kept the gun so that he would not be defenseless, "naked to the druggies and crooks out there." Yet he ended up using it on some half-naked youth who was guilty of no more than trespassing and could have easily been dragged away, along with his female companion, by the cops...
...been there, Rowan would be the first witness for the prosecution in a misdemeanor court. Instead he now faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and up to 10 years' imprisonment. Had he killed or permanently disabled the teenager, Rowan would obviously be facing far more serious charges, and the NRA would be a lot less enthusiastic in twisting the incident to fit its own absurd propaganda...