Ted Weighs in on Gun Debate
I haven’t said much about the VT Shootings here or in any of the forums I regularly post on. I find it inconceivable that either side of the gun issue would so quickly use this as an example even before all the victims were identified. The Virginia Tech shooting is a horrible situation and my thoughts and prayers go out to all that are involved.
I don’t know if it is just my perception but the coverage not surprisingly has been around the need to suspend the 2nd amendment. Shocking as it seems given the overwhelming outcry to end the freedom of the press after military secrets were leaked about how our government was able to track terror cells across the world I guess it’s time we give up the 2nd Amendment too. NOT
Although I’m not a huge fan of the Nuge I think his commentary on CNN is appropriate and on target. I’m putting it up here because I think its important that everyone sees this and hears our side of the issue because I believe we’ll see an increase attack on our Rights;
WACO, Texas (CNN) — Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby’s Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I’ve about had enough of it.
Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.
A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.
At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.
More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.
My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby’s Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden “feel good” politics.
She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.
No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a “cult of agriculture fertilizer” following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh’s heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted “steak knife control” as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.
Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.
Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn’t think so.
Who doesn’t get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?
I’ll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that’s who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to “feel good” is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.
Moose, I’m choosing your website as the first place to publicly state this potentially unpopular opinion:
When I was a student at Virginia Tech, living off campus, we had numerous firearms in our apartment. But they were for hunting, not protection, and the subject of taking them out for any reason other than hunting (and occasional target shooting) never even came up.
That was a good thing since I and my roommates, like many college students then and now, also did a lot of drinking.
If college students take their guns to class for protection, they won’t lock them up when they go out drinking Thursday-Saturday nights. College bars and fraternity parties will turn into shooting galleries.
Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens is not the answer, but neither is encouraging college students to walk around strapped.
Comment by Matt — April 21, 2007 @ 8:48 pm
Hey Matt As always its Great to have you dropping by. I’d like to respond to your post because I don’t agree with you;
[quote] If college students take their guns to class for protection, they won’t lock them up when they go out drinking Thursday-Saturday nights. College bars and fraternity parties will turn into shooting galleries.
Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens is not the answer, but neither is encouraging college students to walk around strapped.
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Your argument is not a unique one to this age group as a matter of fact it is often an argument offered up anywhere Conceal Carry is ever proposed. “It will be like the Wild West and people will be shooting each other all the time” Dire predictions were made here in NC when the CC was being debated and it just hasn’t happened. Denying everyone a right to self protection because some may abuse it is not a logical argument. I don’t think people should be forced to CC but I also don’t think you should deny them that right with out just cause. You seem to be arguing that college age people have no self control and must have it legislated for them. I have a little more faith. Now there certainly will be those who abuse it and I support coming down hard on them when they do. I guess how many more of these types of shootings do we want to see before we start giving potential victims a fighting chance?
Comment by Moose — April 21, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
Thanks for the response. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a staunch supporter of Second Ammendment Rights, and I could be completely wrong about how college students would handle the privilege of CC on campus. It still worries me though, the thought of dropping a bunch of firearms into such an alcohol fueled environment.
Comment by Matt — April 22, 2007 @ 10:15 pm