Another School Shooting..and another..and another..
By John Longenecker (10/06/06)
Grab a cup, this is another long one. - The only time school shootings will stop is when they are stopped. Crime is not fought by nonsense policies, but instance by instance by sovereign authority and superior force.
Condolences to the parents and the community who lost children in the Lancaster School shooting. Condolences to the United States on the loss of its children.
An interesting report surfaced yesterday, and I include this with comments below.
Meanwhile, my essay doesn’t criticize the Amish, but the vexing bureaucrats who made it all possible. Without apologies to educators, this is my position. This is an example of righteous anger directed properly.
Anti-gun laws change the entire complexion of American liberty – and now safety – to the detriment of all Americans, especially now the non-gun owners. What will it take to comprehend this outside the liberty community?
You know how I feel about the foolishness of resistance-free zones across the country. I’ve written about the various postal shootings, various school shootings, I commented on the Platte Canyon shooting and now I’m on this one in Lancaster, PA.
If we look at school shootings as just another bully getting his way, we see the reflection of how administrations, as always, do nothing about the bully — and punish everyone else, and their parents and their community. Thanks a lot.
It’s always the innocent kids who are punished and not only by the repeat offender on campus, but by the indolence and indifference of the system that thinks it knows better.
It does not. It has forgotten or refused to acknowledge that Educators do not give orders, they take orders.
I am speaking to all education administrators nationwide and I always write for non-gun owners in America. Now I write to parents.
The administrators who punish gun ownership by remote control are equally responsible for the tacit approval they give to murder.
Yes, equally responsible. They could meet it with the stroke of a pen. Instead, they act decerebrate and counter intuitive.
Administrations, legislators and activists who disarm the people by writing laws which ban weapons on campus are co-conspirators with the murderers who come to kill the children.
And you’d better start seeing that way, or there will be other murderers visiting your kids. This is probably the sole reason schools and other resistance-free zones are chosen to express rage and revenge. They are simply found to be as advertised.
Liberals, activists and weak legislators never have the guts the people have to have in facing violence the only way it can be faced and stopped in progress. This is because they are blinded, distracted and profoundly influenced by more tempting unethical goals and self-dealing objectives, and if those objectives cannot somehow be worked into the solution, then the solution of the parents can just go to hell, right? This is how sensible recommendations are crossed off the list of answers. This kills children.
It’s time for officials to forget all about their self-dealing goals and petty ambitions and listen to the people whose children are being killed. Maybe the next can be protected. It is indeed likely that a majority of parents shares the same values and guts to see the right solution. Let's find out.
I’ll say it again: gun control changes the entire complexion of American liberty — and safety – to the detriment of all Americans, including the non-gun owner.
Now, include children in this if you really want to stop violence.
By disarming the interested parent and by waiting for police, you grant time for the murderers to complete his/her/their act. Time is one thing you don’t have, and anti-gun laws tie the hands of the innocent by making it impossible to stop violence from escalating. Brilliant.
We have begged, we have pleaded, we have lobbied, we have done everything reasonable to get officials to stick to the law of the land in simply respecting a civil right, and it is stomped by bureaucrats who, themselves, use force to impose their will over that of the electorate while reserving private use of force for their own personal safety. This is how 22,000 gun laws affect the non-gun owner.
Gun control is not a political opinion, gun-control is utterly unAmerican, because you cannot legally in this country apply any seemingly reasonable due process to dismantle another’s civil right - no matter how indifferent, uneducated or fearful you are about it - an amendment to the Document you took an oath to protect. Or didn’t you learn this in school? Or don’t you give a damn?
Look the children in the eye and tell them that you will not allow their parents to protect them. Do it.
Are you listening, Rosie? Look the children in the eye and tell them how you want to interfere with their parent’s protection. Look themn in the eye and tell them you're wiser than their parents are.
Yet officials will use force to disarm the innocent parents and then wring their hands over murderers who move in fast and plan on suicide. Parents have cooperated and relied on your supposed wisdom and education, but you have proven to be the least educated of all. You don’t respect a civil right and you won’t permit parents to protect their children, because you think they’re too stupid, hot-headed and trigger-happy. Meanwhile, you're power-mad.
The children pay the price for adhering to your so-called education and wisdom of disarmament in joining the nonsense of the anti-violence movement. Brilliant.
What will it take for you to untie the hands of the parents? If you think that loving parents will somehow become monsters of murder if allowed to carry their weapons wherever they have a right to be, what the hell do you think of the people you serve? You forget the law of the land in who really runs this country.
So much for educators. Pheh!
The nuts who murder children are in no way similar to the loving – and courageous – folks you work for.
Who trained you? Who put that thought in your head that parents cannot be trusted to act to protect their kids and that they would act to hurt them? Who told you that? Educators, my butt.
But we don’t take orders from the Board Of Education, we give them. Or were you trained incorrectly on that, too? It’s time for the Board to be recognized as the bullies they are, interfering with parenting and refusing to stand up for the parents in light of ineffective laws that go against all reason and liberty.
I believe that nearly every school shooting – church shooting, airport shooting, hijacking, abduction and other crimes of violence – can be stopped in progress if officials will simply lift the rules against honest citizens carrying weapons. In fact, shootings can probably be discouraged altogether.
It all happens so very fast that only an armed person already on-scene can make the difference between life and death. I don’t recommend teachers be armed – they’ve proven to be too opposed to the concept to take the training or for the training to take. Officials would foul it all up, and besides, they don’t call the shots, we do. (Unless they somehow believe I’m mistaken..)
It’s always safe to argue with parents and to bully parents, but where’s the courage in facing down a nut bent on murder? [See below.]
My recommendation is that you don’t hire guards – people who fall asleep or watch the clock – I recommend lifting all laws against weapons on campus so that any visiting parent may visit armed and, if necessary, come to the aid of children with his/her own sovereign authority and superior force.
This is both parsimonious and vital, since it contains an interesting element that discourages violence: you don’t know who’s armed.
Any administrators who disagree with this characterization are invited to contact me via e-mail.
Just lift the laws against visitors carrying weapons wherever they have a right to be. Limit it to concealed carry permitees if you like, but only for a start. Also, understand that the right to carry is not negated by a law – it could be challenged all the way to the top. Did you learn about that in school?
In fact, why not state-by-state repeal all gun laws in the interest of the children? Stop saying what your responsibiity buraucratically isn’t and start accepting what morally is. Do it for the children, and for God’s sake, do what the parents tell you to do for a change!
You’re not paid to think, you’re paid to obey the will of the people. You’re not elected to listen to so-called education experts with agendae – you’re paid to listen to parents and taxpayers. You do not live with our realities, so you don’t get an opinion, you get instructions.
[It's amazing: in conversations I've had on conservative family values, I've spoken with teachers who go home to a set of values they share with me, but in the workplace, they go with the values of the Board, which oppose my values. Amazing.]
Lift the bans on parents' carrying weapons. Lift the stupid rules that only hamstring people from answering grave danger with authority and force.
My thanks to many Representatives - Both R and D - for the passage of recent pro-family gun laws this month.
Attention Rosie O’Donnell: do you own weapons and/or do your armed bodyguards own weapons for your personal protection and yours alone when you sound off against weapons? No American can morally attack another’s civil right. The operative word is morally, Rosie.
Dianne Feinstein: do your bodyguards own weapons? When you turned in your .357 Magnum and turned your California concealed weapons permit in for bodyguards, did you really believe you would be setting the example? In truth, you were practicing elitism, the disease of officials and the complaint of the People.
Ted Kennedy: Are those machine guns your guys are carrying on your behalf, or are you all just glad to be in Congress?
Hey, anti-family, anti-gun officials believe in being armed. They’re armed. What could say it better?
Officials being armed while barring the voters is like eating in front of a starving man, which is about your speed. It’s risen to the level of depraved indifference. It’s a revealing character trait before the upcoming election.
Remember this in November.
It’s time for parents to instruct officials to repeal gun laws which ban only honest owners’ weapons from the campus; it will never ban weapons from criminals, and this leaves such attacks unanswered and subject to completion before any police can arrive. You really ought to know that by now.
Repeal all gun laws.
And now, some breaking news: I heard a report that while captive at the hands of the killer, whatisname in Lancaster, two little girls came forward and the first one said, "Shoot me first."
The second one reportedly came forward and said, "Shoot me second."
Anybody catch that report? Is it confirmed? Is it broadcast?
In a child’s way, as far as a child is capable of understanding, they at least understood sacrifice. They understood buying time, perhaps.
But they also understood something they could teach any Board Of Education, and that is not to pat yourself on the back for being so tough against the gun-rights lobby - a civil rights group - but to be brave in the face of grave danger. The operative word is brave.
I think we should always remember that part of this story. It would be good for the children, and that would be good for the country.
John Longenecker's second edition of The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry is available worldwide in Hardcover. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net
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