I know this is early. I know the agony of this day will remain raw and torturous for quite some time. And the self-centered cowards who oppose the right of people to defend themselves will chime in with their mantric dogma about gun control.
Sorry, folks, but I am really pissed about this.
The Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Tech’s governing board, and all other morons who oppose the God-given right to life are, each and every one, personally responsible for this massacre.
Over one year ago they killed House Bill 1572 which would have allowed citizens and staff to carry concealed weapons. The Bill, initiated by General Assembly Delegate Todd Gilbert, was defeated and Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker (like “canker”) was happy to hear it.
He said at the time that “…the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
Uh, huh.
“Feel” safe, my butt. Polish Jews felt relatively “safe” because they convinced themselves to feel that way, not unlike today’s anti-gun zealots.
Feeling safe, really safe, is having a Springfield XD .45 with one in the pipe tucked snugly into your closely-cinched holster.
The Virginia General Assembly action is singularly and entirely responsible for every death and injury at today’s Virginia Tech slaughter, and legislators as well as university officials should be tried, convicted, and jailed as accessories to this crime.
No one, not one person, has any right—legal or otherwise—to threaten me or my family with defenselessness. Anyone who tries that is a criminal in league with other criminals who rob, kill, rape and maim. They are also in grave danger.
Anyone.
So when the undead come out from under their rocks to spew “gun control now,” don’t be polite. Verbally incinerate them. You will be confronting complicit criminal cowardice, so don’t worry about repercussions.
And ask them to explain why this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Switzerland where weapons are very nearly compulsory!
If you read the page at the link above, and you should, you’ll remember these opening paragraphs:
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In 1994, when the U.S. Congress debated whether to ban “assault weapons,” a talk show host asked then-Senator Bill Bradley (New Jersey), a sponsor of the ban, whether guns cause crime. The host noted that, in Switzerland, all males are issued assault rifles for militia service and keep them at home, yet little crime exists there. Sen. Bradley responded that the Swiss “are pretty dull.”
For those who think that target shooting is more fun than golf, however, Switzerland is anything but “dull.” By car or train, you see shooting ranges everywhere, but few golf courses. If there is a Schuetzenfest (shooting festival) in town, you will find rifles slung on hat racks in restaurants, and you will encounter men and women, old and young, walking, biking and taking the tram with rifles over their shoulders, to and from the range. They stroll right past the police station and no one bats an eye. (Try this in the U.S., and a SWAT Team might do you in.)
Tourists–especially those from Japan, where guns are banned to all but the police–think it’s a revolution. But shooting is the national sport, and the backbone of the national defense as well. More per capita firepower exists in Switzerland than in any other place in the world, yet it is one of the safest places to be.
Uhmmmm, give me a minute…
Why in hell do you suppose that might be, anyway? Other than that the Swiss, while “dull,” are wildly smarter than we are? Hmmmm?
Tell me. Right now. Why is that??!
Do not ever allow an anti-gun moron to go unchallenged and unshamed.
Did you know that just around forty states in this nation have concealed carry laws that permit the law-abiding among us to carry whatever we can successfully hide? We get in a lot of trouble if we display our armament, so a shotgun down the pant leg is not a good idea, but a .45 ACP is pretty doggone reassuring.
And devastatingly effective. And legal.
Check into your own home state. Get wise. Get trained at any of a ton of professional and ethical weapons handling locations. Make professional training time a priority at least once a year. Do a week-long live-in session as possible. It will change your life for the better.
Get armed. Practice safety. Practice safely. Practice accuracy. Practice accuracy. Practice accuracy. Speed comes with practice, so practice accuracy and you’ll get quick. It will all become second nature, ingrained, and enormously effective in an emergency.
Remember, you never want to use the thing. And if you ever find that you have to, you never want to get into a gunfight. You want to get it over. And to get it over you become deadly accurate, quick-ish, confident, and automatic. Tap, tap. Double tap. Done deal.
Always carry. With every waking moment, 100% of the time, carry. Even to the market for that forgotten jug of milk…carry.
And while it is highly unlikely you’ll ever encounter a bad guy, you will be assured that you are better trained, more disciplined , more appropriately armed, and more focused than he or she. So in the absence of options, take ‘em out.
God, I hate cowards. Especially when they speak.
ara
