One of the biggest reasons that people decide to carry a firearm on a daily basis is for personal protection. They carry in order to protect their own life and the lives of their loved ones, and I suspect that you would probably find that same motivation for why most gang members and many others who aren’t legally allowed to own firearms carry a firearm regularly (the guns that they get for crimes they try to get rid of quickly to get rid of the evidence, so daily carry guns would seem to be for protection).
So, I’m generally sympathetic towards the motivations of those who want to carry daily.
But what are you supposed to think about someone who comes to your country illegally (meaning not through legal immigration channels) and carrying a gun? Why are they coming here with a gun? It’s hard to imagine that there is a self-protection motive if they show up on the shore of, say, Florida (which only has water borders except to other U.S. states).
Yet, that is the exactly the situation that we’re starting to see. Joseph MacKinnon writes,
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission revealed last week that a pair of officers conducting nighttime water-based patrol near Sebastien Inlet on Feb. 29 stopped a 42-foot boat containing dozens of Haitian migrants along with weaponry.
“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms, they had guns, they had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks,” the governor told reporters during a March 15 press conference.
Two among the 25 individuals aboard the boat were American citizens, both of whom were turned over to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. DeSantis indicated the the Haitian migrants were turned over to the U.S. Coast Guard for deportation.
Again, why would immigrants enter the U.S. by water (so there is no one for them to fight on land to get here) armed with firearms? It seems logical to assume that they brought them because they intend to use them here, doesn’t it?
Maybe I’m wrong about that (I certainly hope that I am). It doesn’t look, though, like they were coming to the U.S. to do things legally. Not if they’re coming by water with something that they wouldn’t be allowed to just walk into the country with.
What do you think? Comment below.