When even the police say that response has to be instant, rather than after the minutes that pass from the time of a crime report to the time a rapid response team can assemble, people ought to know that law abiding citizens that carry concealed are their best protection.
There are too many times when people are killed, even in a church, and the killing will only be stopped by an instant response. We need to stop making places legal gun free zones (which means they are illegal gun only zones). Someone that intends to kill a bunch of people is not going to worry about breaking a gun control law … they already decided to murder as many people as they can (and probably kill themselves as well). What that means is that a “gun free zone” is really a “legal gun free zone” but then those that want to commit mass murder will be enabled by knowing they will have little or no opposition at least for several minutes while a rapid response team is assembled. Illegal gun only zones are not safe; don’t go somewhere that prohibits otherwise legally carried guns.
Tags: 2nd ammendment, save lives, shoot to live
A friend and reader of my site sent a video over that sums up what you are talking about here. I posted it at Rightside and I believe you will find it interesting…
http://rightsideva.blogspot.com/2008/12/true-meaning-of-2nd-amendment.html
I had the honor of meeting Dr. Gratia Hupp during a counter demonstration to the Million Mom March in May of 2000. She recounted her story to an audience of 5000 and had them in tears describing the pain she lives with everyday because she complied with the law. Her children will not know their grandparents and 21 people died in 2001 at Luby’s cafe because legally no one in the state of Texas was allowed to carry a concealed weapon.
As Suzanna said in her testimony, she would rather be facing a felony than have her parents dead, but these are the decisions these type of stupid laws force citizens to make to protect themselves and their families.
Correction, the Luby Cafe murders happened in 1991, not 2001.
Gun Free Zones = Public policy with tragic results.
What happened at VA Tech is a prime example
Can’t help but make a comparison to Appalachian State.
This was a part of a post by Greg L. over at BVBL.
….”Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, recording the words of Cesare Beccaria: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Why is that some can’t or refuse to acknowledge this common sense wisdom ?
I happened to be carrying “illegal” long before the Luby’s incident because of the “line of work” I had been doing. Luby’s only sent it home that I was doing the right thing. Remember, our founding fathers were constantly at odds and on the wrong side of the law at the times and for good reason.
It’s very interesting that the panel she was talking to had (and was probably chaired) Chuck Schumer on it. And we all know about Chuck. Do you really think that he gives a rats-ass about her testimony or what the “common” people think? He doesn’t like the 2nd Amendment anymore than his ilk because the people may use it for its intended purpose. Be scared, Chuck. Be very scared!
“Gun Free Zones = Public policy with tragic results. What happened at VA Tech is a prime example”
It is also a prime example of our incompetent immigration system. The shooter came to the US when he was 8 or 9 years old. His mother said he had severe mental illness and she thought if they came to the US the change would be good for him.
He constantly suffered from severe depression, his writings were “twisted, macabre violence that used weapons,” he basically never talked to anyone. Teachers and students knew that he was a cause for concern.
He was a citizen of South Korea, a legal resident alien that should not have been issued a visa, even as a child with his history of mental illness.
He left a note behind with references about “rich kids” and “debauchery.”
I think he bought his bullets and supplies from Ebay.
HE,
He was ruled an imminent danger to others by a judge who should have known that being voluntarily committed for treatment would not have prevented him from buying a gun. Did the system let VT down ?
ACT,
I too carried illegally once for a brief time, when someone made a threat against me. Initially I brushed it off, but when his girlfriend told me that he showed up at her apartment one night, all bloody, banging a 38 against the door, I reconsidered. That little Beretta still serves me well after 25 years..
I don’t know about the VT shooters status as a citizen, I never heard he was here illegally. I do remember reading that he was making improvements with socialization in HS in FFX County and his parents were told by the social services staff at the school not to send him to a large University, that he would not function and he needed a smaller, controlled environment. So his parents sent him to VT.