“The right to bear arms”

My own feelings about gun ownership vary, but that’s not my point today.

Goldman Sachs, one of the richest and in my mind, the most despicable, of the mega-banks in our economy these days has recently taken to arming their executives with handguns. When questioned about it, they did not return calls.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0

I find it interesting that a financial firm which is at least partially responsible for the current financial crisis might actually be afraid of the angry masses of this country. It would take quite a bit of pushing to cause the proletariat to rise up against them, but Sachs is preparing for that possiblity. I wouldn’t say eventuallity, but even if the people of this country were that angry, I suspsect that Sachs would spend a fair amount of money to either go on a massive P.R. Campagin to  stop it, or resort to tactics using their infulences to threaten the employment of those who made up the mob. At the very least, they would hire a veritable army of private security or cry foul to the government for protection, in the hopes that the U.S. Army would guard them.

But the chances of a violent rise-up is slim, at best.