So you don't have to?

Thanks to Stephanie Miller, for listening to Bill O’Reilly "so you don’t have to."

Approximate quote:

Bill O'Reilly * [If there was ever proof that American’s need the right to protect themselves, it was hurricane Katrina.]

Note that I don’t want to read or listen to Bill O’Reilly again ** , to get it straight, but I believe gun rights was the issue. Actually I believe Americans do have the right to protect themselves, just not the tools to do it. Am I agreeing with Bill O’Reilly? Now that is scary, but it doesn’t mean I’m right. It doesn’t even mean you can read me any better than him, but that is not the issue.

Three points here: 1.) It may make more sense to approximate what is said since that may be closer to reality than O’Reilly gets. 2.) We should have the right to protect ourselves. 3.) It is not absolute, but could be if the government does it’s job the way some talk.

This approximation technique really is a problem, as things would be more effective if we could depend on words and filter them properly. But this process was not intended to take the humor out of my original approach which hinged on the line, “so you don’t have to".

Actually there are a lot of fields now where people don’t have the tools to survive where they would have been dependent on their environment more than their government.*** Those fields today or job categories rest on the premise that people are specialized in the name of progress and the economy "so you don’t have to". But they would all not be possible without the changing fabric of society that requires the same (specialization) of others, and would not work without a structure called government to regulate this changing balancing act.

Bottom line...
or punch line: "Run for the hills".

* note that literary licence and formality causes me to note that I have sufficiently noted that I don't use quotation marks here.

** I thought I had a blast for O'Reilly in the past, but here are some from the more recent and yet to be read: sticking to guns on a tragedy to smear [thanks to News Hounds... they "watch FOX", dot, dot, dot]

*** in correcting the tense here, I add the Darwinian metaphor "sink or swim" but think of the music to Jaws.