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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 2997761" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Call me cynical, but I think it's mostly a feel-good measure. The people writ large have a general fear of terrorist, nutjob mass shooters, etc. They see the police as protectors; they also see the military as protectors. They don't know that many servicemembers never receive handgun training, nor that fewer yet receive more than a familiarization course; all they know is that soldiers protect us from our enemies. Allowing active-duty servicemembers to carry makes the population feel like the legislature is Doing Something, putting armed protectors out on the street to look out for us. It makes us feel safer, and feel good about the politicians who did it. The small minority of us who know the facts, who care about individual liberty, won't be swayed either way by this, so we don't matter (in an electoral sense), and the masses feel a little better.</p><p></p><p>But then, some call me cynical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 2997761, member: 13624"] Call me cynical, but I think it's mostly a feel-good measure. The people writ large have a general fear of terrorist, nutjob mass shooters, etc. They see the police as protectors; they also see the military as protectors. They don't know that many servicemembers never receive handgun training, nor that fewer yet receive more than a familiarization course; all they know is that soldiers protect us from our enemies. Allowing active-duty servicemembers to carry makes the population feel like the legislature is Doing Something, putting armed protectors out on the street to look out for us. It makes us feel safer, and feel good about the politicians who did it. The small minority of us who know the facts, who care about individual liberty, won't be swayed either way by this, so we don't matter (in an electoral sense), and the masses feel a little better. But then, some call me cynical. [/QUOTE]
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