Bar-hopping, 4 a.m., alone...

Rights and "freedoms" are loudly proclaimed in this day and age, and we are fortunate for the many rights we now enjoy, thanks to the courage and determination of those who came before us.

Now, another incident brings home the point that along with the rights that we have, come responsibilities.

"Just because a person has a “right” to do something doesn’t mean that it is “wise” to exercise that right," summarizes a writer. Read about what happened to a young woman on the streets of New York in this excerpt:

She Had Every Right, but Now She is Dead 3/7/2006
By Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D.

Having a right doesn’t mean it’s always wise to use it.

In late February, a beautiful graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice was found murdered in lower Manhattan. The crime was so grisly that it shocked even jaded New Yorkers.

The victim and a close girlfriend had been bar hopping. After a brief argument about whether to go home, the friend left around 3 a.m., but Imette St. Guillen went on to another bar and didn’t leave until after 4 a.m. We don’t yet know who she saw after leaving the bar.

Read the rest at Concerned Women for America