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Interesting commentary from Joseph Farah.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61494
Lethal disconnect at Virginia Tech
Posted: April 14, 2008
Virginia Tech's Norris Hall in Blacksburg, Va. / Roanoke Times
I'm starting to wonder: What exactly are they teaching students at Virginia Tech?
This question came to me as I was reading about a protest planned on campus for April 16, the one-year anniversary of the massacre by a crazed gunman of 32 people.
What is the protest about?
It is to demand stricter gun control.
At first blush, that may not seem surprising. Inevitably there are always calls for stricter gun control in the wake of gun violence. That this particular protest is being organized by the zealots from the Brady Campaign is par for the course.
But here's where I grow perplexed about this particular protest. The massacre at Virginia Tech last year occurred on a campus that already maintained a strict ban on guns. In fact, it was part of a state university system that had only recently banned all guns on campuses – even for those with carry permits.
So my question is: Besides the current permanent, no-exceptions ban on all civilian firearms on campus, what exactly do these protesters have in mind?
Presumably, what they have in mind, is to ban civilian firearms off campus, too – throughout the rest of the country.
Now not only would this be a violation of the Constitution, it would only serve to set the stage for more Virginia Tech-style massacres throughout the rest of the country.
What are these students studying at Virginia Tech? Logic? Constitutional law? Statistics? History?
The Virginia Tech massacre didn't represent a failure of the inherent right to bear arms and defend oneself. It illustrated the abject failure of an ideology that maintains creating gun-free zones and disarming law-abiding civilians will actually protect innocent people from gunfire.
It would be akin to the people of Washington, D.C., the murder capital of the U.S., where civilian firearms are banned, telling the rest of America we should follow their good example.
Would that make any sense?
Neither does it make sense for a campus known internationally for a slaughter of innocents to tell the rest of us how to avoid such tragedies.
Yet, that's exactly what is planned this Wednesday at Virginia Tech when 32 students – and, no doubt, some equally insightful faculty members as well – will take part in a noon "lie-in" at an athletic field.
Leave it to those advocating provably disastrous policies that result only in murder and mayhem to politicize a tragedy their very ideas helped create.
You might think the first anniversary of such a horrendous massacre would be a time for sober reflection, prayer, unity. But not for the gun grabbers. They never miss an opportunity to promote their political agenda – one, by the way, that results in massacres and genocide every single time it is embraced by government and accepted by people anywhere in the world and at every time throughout history.
From Josef Stalin to Adolf Hitler to Mao Zedong to Rwanda to the killing fields of Cambodia, seizing guns always results in mass murder and genocide.
You can't name a genocide that occurred in a country whose government respected and protected the people's unalienable right to armed self-defense. There are none in recorded history. And, on a smaller scale, it is statistically provable that fewer guns equal more crime – especially gun-related homicides. More guns, on the other hand, as statistician John Lott has shown, equal less crime.
I don't expect to persuade Sara Brady and her fanatical friends to call off their plans at Virginia Tech because they grasp the logic of what I am saying here. Because logic clearly has nothing to do with their symbolic "lie-in."
But I will say this about them: They have properly named the event. Because it's all about a big lie.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61494
Lethal disconnect at Virginia Tech
Posted: April 14, 2008
Virginia Tech's Norris Hall in Blacksburg, Va. / Roanoke Times
I'm starting to wonder: What exactly are they teaching students at Virginia Tech?
This question came to me as I was reading about a protest planned on campus for April 16, the one-year anniversary of the massacre by a crazed gunman of 32 people.
What is the protest about?
It is to demand stricter gun control.
At first blush, that may not seem surprising. Inevitably there are always calls for stricter gun control in the wake of gun violence. That this particular protest is being organized by the zealots from the Brady Campaign is par for the course.
But here's where I grow perplexed about this particular protest. The massacre at Virginia Tech last year occurred on a campus that already maintained a strict ban on guns. In fact, it was part of a state university system that had only recently banned all guns on campuses – even for those with carry permits.
So my question is: Besides the current permanent, no-exceptions ban on all civilian firearms on campus, what exactly do these protesters have in mind?
Presumably, what they have in mind, is to ban civilian firearms off campus, too – throughout the rest of the country.
Now not only would this be a violation of the Constitution, it would only serve to set the stage for more Virginia Tech-style massacres throughout the rest of the country.
What are these students studying at Virginia Tech? Logic? Constitutional law? Statistics? History?
The Virginia Tech massacre didn't represent a failure of the inherent right to bear arms and defend oneself. It illustrated the abject failure of an ideology that maintains creating gun-free zones and disarming law-abiding civilians will actually protect innocent people from gunfire.
It would be akin to the people of Washington, D.C., the murder capital of the U.S., where civilian firearms are banned, telling the rest of America we should follow their good example.
Would that make any sense?
Neither does it make sense for a campus known internationally for a slaughter of innocents to tell the rest of us how to avoid such tragedies.
Yet, that's exactly what is planned this Wednesday at Virginia Tech when 32 students – and, no doubt, some equally insightful faculty members as well – will take part in a noon "lie-in" at an athletic field.
Leave it to those advocating provably disastrous policies that result only in murder and mayhem to politicize a tragedy their very ideas helped create.
You might think the first anniversary of such a horrendous massacre would be a time for sober reflection, prayer, unity. But not for the gun grabbers. They never miss an opportunity to promote their political agenda – one, by the way, that results in massacres and genocide every single time it is embraced by government and accepted by people anywhere in the world and at every time throughout history.
From Josef Stalin to Adolf Hitler to Mao Zedong to Rwanda to the killing fields of Cambodia, seizing guns always results in mass murder and genocide.
You can't name a genocide that occurred in a country whose government respected and protected the people's unalienable right to armed self-defense. There are none in recorded history. And, on a smaller scale, it is statistically provable that fewer guns equal more crime – especially gun-related homicides. More guns, on the other hand, as statistician John Lott has shown, equal less crime.
I don't expect to persuade Sara Brady and her fanatical friends to call off their plans at Virginia Tech because they grasp the logic of what I am saying here. Because logic clearly has nothing to do with their symbolic "lie-in."
But I will say this about them: They have properly named the event. Because it's all about a big lie.
