Posted by
grassroots_conservative on Monday, February 18, 2008 10:21:42 PM
Does thinking you're the last sane
person on the face of the earth make you crazy? I fortunately know
that I am not alone in my sentiment, but I couldn't help but wonder
as I watched a group of sheeple (supposedly plucked from among the
brightest segment of society) debating what would be the appropriate
courses of action to prevent more massacres, school shootings, and
violence upon helpless, hapless victims. Their solutions, framed by
the pacifist/nonviolent psychobabble that has eroded our society's
rational judgment since who-knows-when, were the usual platitudes:
locking down campus, installing metal detectors, hiring more guards,
etc. Not one of them had the presence of mind (or, rather, had the
gall) to suggest the only real solution to the problem—allow the
people their Constitutional rights to bear arms and to protect life,
liberty and property. No doubt the person who had had the audacity to
suggest such a thing would have been booed off the stage by
politically correct sheeple or censored and intimidated by the
stooges of the thought police.
What enrages me is not so much the
madness of the killer as the ones that quite deliberately disabled
the victims by using (abusing) their power to exercise authority over
them and effectively negate the rights of others to protect their
lives.
The latest tragedy to occur in a
lecture hall of a university has served at least one small personal
benefit to me. I realized that I need to make a point not to sit next
to the door. That is not so I'll have a better chance of getting
away, but so that I have time to draw my own gun and am not the first
one to go down—because you know none of the other idiots will have
a gun. Yeah, that's right. I pack heat! My self-preservation is
between me and God, all others be damned. I challenge every other
red-blooded American that considers himself or herself to be a true
conservative to take seriously the message that the “gun-nuts”
proclaim incessantly—choose to not be a victim.
I still can't get over the situation of
Sean Taylor—a man reduced to defending his life with a machete
against gunman because the government revoked his Second Amendment
rights. If ever there was a unanimous public outcry against a
miscarriage of justice, would this not merit it? Instead we see the
sheeple's attention diverted from the real news story and seduced by
rumors and innuendos about his background and character. I lament the
probability that the few that have followed the story still think
that he in some degree deserved what he got.
What could one person do to counteract
the evil of unconstitutional gun control? One person could do a lot
if that person were in a position to grant clemency. If I were
commander in chief, I wouldn't waste time pardoning people that were
properly convicted. I would look for those that were wrongfully
imprisoned for exercising their “inalienable rights.” The first
and foremost right is to life. It is our duty as citizens—upholders
of the Constitution—to hold our leaders to the standard of the
Constitution or else hold them in contempt otherwise. If we do not,
then our citizenship means nothing, as does our country.