http://www.handguncontrol.org/
http://www.gun-control-network.org/
http://www.gunfree.org/
I used to be the director of research of Armed Females of Americe in their early days, and find the mindset and bizarre emphasis on "the victim mentality" fascinating (in a clinical sense, anyway).
Here is the first comment I posted, after Columbine, after studying the gun-control propaganda:
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Date:
14 Oct 1999
Time:
17:44:18
Remote User:
Comments
I'm a middle-aged, housewife, receiving permanent disability, living quietly in
the mountains of Park County, Colorado. My name is Trisha.
Time has passed, and the media's feeding frenzy has abated a little. Maybe my voice can be heard
now, though my perspective may still be insignificant, as I am surely among the least visible and
politically potent in many things, save these issues.
If there were to be a more lucid and graphic demonstration of the social mechanics of a disarmed
society (that being one where only criminals and vested authority posessed firearms) for the
apathetic to examine, it escapes me. Frightened teenagers and their authority figures, the faculty,
numbering collectively in their hundreds were completely cowed and terrorised by two
sociopaths.
Civil authority was summoned, and in their great might (with advanced martial training, and
dramatic state-of-the-art weaponry),acted within their conditioning and authority structure's
parameters.
And the unbridled, empowering reign of terror within continued; the huddled, powerless, weeping
throng praying and begging for rescue by others whom they had been taught would protect them.
Thirty years of the victim mentality bore a bountiful harvest that day. Mass media quickly averted
its' viewfinder from the wholesale slaughter waiting in the wings: The propane bombs didn't
detonate. Professional mental health counsellors were provided by civil authority to absolve the
fear and helplessness carried by so many.
My revulsion for the coherent demonstration of contemporary society and the "victim mentality"
overwhelmed me for a time. The triumph of the control to glorify and empower a mindset of
helplessness in the presence of fiends bent on wholesale slaughter sickened me. Even without
firearms, the hundreds found no "Iron blood of courage" that day.
I vote. I lawfully own and carry and regularly practice with firearms. In the acutely limited sphere
of social contact I interact with, I advocate awareness on second ammendment issues including
right-to-carry legislation. I encourage people to investigate self-defense, and the related issues of
our government being the servant to the populace, and answerable for its' actions.
Columbine embodied the agonies waiting for all of us (and all of our futures) if, in all of our
diversity, we fail to effectively deliver and demonstrate the worth of self-defense, courage, and
social responsibility as truly viable and durable and worthy traits of a caring and active and
gracious society.
I can be reached at:
[email protected]
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(my new e-mail is:
[email protected])
) and debate with them in a civil manner.
:banghead:
