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April
23, 2007
The bias of the "mainstream media" toward ever more government control is always there, and bad enough, but the sheer wallowing in gore and the emotional pain of everyone they could lay hands on was an insult to every thinking person in this country. And no, I didn't even see any of it on TV. I don't watch TV. What I saw was on the internet, which now seems to have been taken over pretty much by the mainstream media outlets as far as the news is concerned. I can only imagine how horrible it would have been to watch any of it "live." Lew Rockwell and a dozen blogs I visited all had predictable articles on this terrible historical event, rightly identifying the fact that the college was a disarmed victim zone and that even one armed student or teacher could have prevented the whole thing - but a "law" against guns on campus prevented it. We already knew that. Hundreds of people send me emails. I belong to several freedom type forums and discussion email groups. The postings there are pretty much the same as the blogs and articles, sometimes even more articulate. But they're all singing the same old song. Remove the date and name of the place and they could all be writing about Columbine or any of dozens of other such tragedies, give or take a few dead and injured of course. We of the freedom community rage at being disarmed, that our children are herded into these "gun free zones" where they can be murdered. We complain about the anti-depressants our children are given, and all the rest. Bitch, whine, complain, blah, blah, blah... But what the hell are we going to DO about it? How many parents REMOVED their young people permanently from these "school" killing zones on Tuesday - or Monday afternoon? How many people decided on Monday that they were never going to go out of their front door unarmed again? How many people looked into their medicine cabinet TODAY and tossed out all of the insane psychotropic drugs they'd been giving THEIR children - or themselves - or even considered it? How many people decided to get the hell out of cities and states where they are milked like cows and kept helpless as dogs in a cage - and started making real plans to live as free human beings? How many people decided to take personal responsibility for their own lives, reclaim complete ownership of themselves and their property? How many people determined to find a way to live in real peace with their neighbors, counting integrity and non-aggression more important than any imagined need to "control" what other people do or say? What the hell are we going to DO about this? Wait for the next one? But what if millions of students were pulled from such "disarmed victim zones" immediately? I mean NOW! Wouldn't that change things? What if 80 or 100 million gun owners strapped on their weapons and went out to work, play, school, etc. tomorrow - and every day from now on? Wouldn't that send a message loud and clear? What if millions of people started to leave places like New York City and New Jersey. How long would legislatures play their games when the good taxpayers are vanishing? Why does anyone stay where they can't defend themselves? Why do they meekly obey "the law" they know can get them killed? Vote with your feet! What would happen if people by the millions suddenly decided to stop whining and begging their various "elected representatives" to "DO SOMETHING" and took charge of their own lives... maybe even deciding not to contribute to political campaigns or parties - or to ignore anything others attempted to imposed on them by threat of force? Just think of the possibilities! What if the people of this country simply decided to stop ALLOWING themselves to be herded like cattle and fleeced like sheep? What if they stood up by the millions and JUST SAID NO!!!!! What if...???? Could this happen? WHY NOT? It happend at Lexingon and Concord. It's happened other times and other places. Ask William Wallace... But if the people would rather be kept like chickens, why don't they just shut up about justice and liberty?
Links from
the previous articles: Self ownership essay: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/eight.asp The Ludwig von Mises Institute: http://www.mises.org/ What about the "poor?" - Reinventing America: http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=289 Advocates for Self-government: http://www.self-gov.org/home.shtml Second Amendment Sisters -- Self defense is a basic human right. Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership -- Learn more about the real meaning of the Bill of Rights and the people who have fought to preserve it. Keep And Bear Arms -- a grassroots movement of the people, by the people, and for the people. It is a call to action, a call for self-education, and a 21 gun salute to the many good men and women who fought and died to bring America into being. Gun
Owners of America -- "Gun Owners of America was instrumental
in mobilizing the grassroots to fight the crime bill." Opencarry.org - Great forum for those who open carry. These will lead you to many others. |
Letter
From The Editor The Poor Seniors - How Do We Care For Them? "The
Black Arrow" By Vin Suprynowicz Out of the Gray Zone Book Review Reclaiming Ownership Of Our Lives Open Carry - Mama's Got A (BIG) Gun! The Price of Liberty is Three Years Old Some Truth About Narcotics and "Addiction" Open Carry - For Better or Worse Is WalMart The Next Disarmed Victim Zone? Complete Archives for The Editor
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