Ignorance is bliss.<\/p>\n
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.<\/p>\n
Both of these are true statements.<\/p>\n
For the month of October, I’m going to avoid social media, mainstream media, IRC, and political blogs\/podcasts. I’m going to try to see what my blood pressure and mood do if I just stick my head in the sand for a little bit.<\/p>\n
I’m a little too<\/i> angry-due-to-paying-attention some times and that causes me to make passionate arguments in ways that make complete sense to me, but are very off-putting to normal people. As an example, I recently attended an event where one of the lawyers who got the first iteration of Restaurant Carry declared unconstitutional. I asked him why they didn’t also challenge the new law allowing restaurant carry for off duty officers, and he said that police are (paraphrasing) “trained for that sort of thing.” I questioned him pretty harshly on what specific training police receive that pertains to that issue, and whether or not he would be okay with permit holders having that training. He basically responded that the only way he would ever be comfortable with someone carrying in a restaurant is if they are a current LEO, regardless of training. It was a similar line of reasoning I’d used before with other people.<\/p>\n
I thought my arguments pointed out that the guy was just biased against citizens, since his base criteria was ultimately only who someone’s employer is. I was informed later by John Lott (yes, that<\/i> John Lott) that my arguments came off as anti-police, suggesting police officers are not well-trained. That was absolutely not my intention.<\/p>\n
When John Lott tells you your argument is a bad one, you listen.<\/p>\n
So I’m going to try to be a “regular” person for a little bit. I’ll still be doing the debt-free blogging (those posts are already queued) and some tech news stuff, but I’m going to try to stay out of the politics for a little bit.<\/p>\n
I imagine that–like Kevin Baker–I’ll be back to it quicker than I plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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