In our concern for the rights of people with mental illness, we have come to neglect the rights of ordinary Americans to be safe from the fear of being shot — at home and at schools, in movie theaters, houses of worship and shopping malls.
But there can be few humdrum feelings more satisfying than knowing that one has bagged a week's worth of shopping in 45 minutes, and that one is now free to party the remaining days away and sleep in late every morning, safe from the fear that the cupboard is bare.
The NRA's claim to defense of rights based on a dubious reading of history oppresses the rights of all other citizens to enjoy freedom and security safe from the fear of random violence.
Perhaps she prefers to make a statement through more exhibitionist moves in her personal life, playing it safe for fear of further separating herself from her peers.
Bristol's new network will "encourage more people to cycle in a safe environment, with freedom from fear of motor traffic," said Jon Usher, area manager for Sustrans.
"We pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace, and we pray for the day when evil is banished, and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear".
A five-year-old contemporary called Pauline Burns, about whom, forgetting that she has died, he innocently jokes: "Pauline Burns, burns", thus shocking a teacher, lives on in his ensuing mortification; his parents, 92 and 94, to whom he cannot give "the comfort they had once given him, could not make them safe from what they feared most, as they had made him safe".
All children have the same needs -- to feel that both of their parents love them and will protect them and keep them safe from life's fears.
Workplace morale increased and employees felt safer, supported and free from fear of losing their jobs.
