Here with go again with another Anti-American tirade offered to us by the owner of this blog who left a comment on my post here. I’m not publishing the comment. Instead, I decided to have a little fun with it. Excuse me while I fisk this guy.
I agree with you 100% that disarming people makes them less safe, that should be obvious to anyone and everyone with a brain in their heads.
We’re good so far…
here’s a few thoughts on the whole “lets panic and introduce more gun control laws!” drivel that’s coming out of the mainstream left and the media right now. I’ve written a much longer post on my blog, but this is the essence of it.
3 points:
1) Our culture fetishizes violence, glorifies it, worships it. Anyone who’s spent 5 minutes at blockbuster looking at the covers of the latest releases knows this. Seriously people, we live in a culture where watching people cut each other up with chainsaws is considered entertainment. How can we seriously be surprised when some poor kid who doesn’t have his head screwed on right gets sick of being bullied and pushed around by his peers and pulls a matrix! It’s like bathing in gasoline while smoking a cigarette and then acting surprised when you get burned.
Our culture fetishizes terrorist violence, gang violence, murder, pedophelia, rape, and child molestation. Let’s call things by their real names. We don’t need to look far for the cultural representations of that; just look at guys like R. Kelly who repeatedly are jailed for child molestation and other crimes against children. As a matter of fact, there is a rapper called the South Park Mexican, who is in jail right now for sex crimes against a child. DNA evidence confirmed his having a baby with a 7th grade girl when he was only 21 years old, convicted before that, of performing oral sex on a 9-year-old. That’s just one example of the cultural ‘icons’ we’ve made out of criminals today.
Even outside of Hollywood we worship violence, just take a look at our foreign policy and the long list of nations we’ve invaded in the last century. Martin Luther King was right when he said that the biggest purveyor of violence on the planet is the American government. If our government deals with its disagreements with its neighbors by murdering them, why should we be surprised when our youth do the same thing?
Okay, here is where you take the left turn. Is that how you view the situation with the Japanese Imperialists and Hitler’s nazis? That we were indiscriminately murdering them? This is where the moral equivalence game gets no traction.
2) The right to bear arms is not about hunting or self-defense. The anti-federalist majority in early america that fought for and won the Bill of Rights didn’t do it because they wanted to be sure their descendants could shoot geese. They did it because they knew that the centralized federal government created by the constitution (which they had opposed) had the very real potential to become tyrannical and they wanted to be sure that “we the people” would always have the means to do as the Declaration of Independence suggests and “alter or ABOLISH” a government that infringes on the liberties and rights of the people.
This is where you are wrong, my friend. The 2nd Amendment certainly is completely about self defense.
The Founders themselves talked about the right to self defense in numerous quotes like these:
Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property.
– Thomas Paine, Writings of Thomas Paine, M. Conway, ed., 1894.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.
– George Washington, First Annual Address, January 8, 1790.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
– Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover’s Jefferson On Democracy
And then we have modern day thinkers who agree with the above thoughts on self defense:
“In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defense when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defense forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Unfortunately, because of the anti-gun folly of the leftist media and politicians, we have lost sight of this vital element of our defense… The anti-gun crowd seeks to establish a modern version of [the medieval era], a kind of bureaucratic feudalism, in place of the republican self-government established by our Constitution… The answer is not gun control, but self-government, self-defense, and self-control. We must act to live as free people, else like sheep for the slaughter, we will die, and freedom with us.” —Alan Keyes
“Clearly, there remains to this day a horrible, condescending attitude toward armed American citizens. Haven’t the British yet gotten over the fact that a ragtag, often disorganized force of American colonials, wielding their own arms, was able to defeat what at the time was the most powerful armed force in the world? Our forefathers, armed with their own flintlock rifles and pistols, and an assortment of muskets—the ‘assault weapons’ of their era—threw off the yoke of oppression under which they were forced to live. When British broadcasters today demand to know just what it is about gun ownership that Americans defend so vigorously, the answer is too simple for them to comprehend. Simply put, we defend this individual civil right because without our own guns two centuries ago, we would still… likely be British subjects…” —Alan Gottlieb
There are times, even though you don’t like it, when appeasement, hand holding and diplomacy need to be set aside completely. Unless, of course, you’d rather trade your freedom for security, which I will not do under any circumstance.
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe.” —Noah Webster
We have the right to defend ourselves, and the right to defend freedom. When the enemy, like the Islamofascists, say they want to destroy Western Civilization and reconstitute the Caliphate, what about that do you not understand? There is no ‘appeasing’, there is no ‘understanding’ or ‘diplomacy’ that will make them stop. There have been peaceniks who’ve had their heads sawed off by them, apparently you haven’t noticed that?
They are raising their children from birth to sacrifice themselves in the course of jihad.
to me, it is our responsibility to grant the mufsidun their wish of martyrdrom until there are no more of them; and until their leaders realize we will not rest until they are destroyed, and even then, that we are watchful and vigilant to protect ourselves and our children against their hatred and bloodlust, simply because we are not just like them, and simply because we are not muslims. because, as the narrator said in the nick berg beheading video, berg wasn’t dying because he was an american…he was dying because he was not a muslim. and that is the prevailing theme which the musfidun are calling out, which leftists seem to ignore for some weird reason. if you watch their own children’s programs, and listen to what they’re saying, i don’t see how you can deny that the mufsidun exist, and say instead that it was a lie cooked up in texas. that’s an example of prime stupidity right there; denial. and denial that could very well get your head hacked off. nick berg’s dad, by the way, is an activist for international answer so it would appear that his communist activism didn’t save his son, either, even though nick went over there to innocently help the iraqi people. it’s delusions about our enemy not being evil that will get you killed. it’s the moral relativism that equates the mufsidun to a ‘freedom fighter’, ignoring that it isn’t freedom that they’re fighting for, but fascism with the flag of the moongod flying overhead, ruled by Sharia law that would have women beaten in the streets.
In other words, we have the right to bear arms because we live in a country created by a violent revolution and our forefathers knew that someday it might be neccessarry for us to have another violent revolution in ordr to preserve our lives, liberties, and our pursuit of happiness.
3) If you want to stop school shootings, a good first step would be to deal with the culture of violence and murder created by our mass media and encouraged by our government. It would be nothing short of stupidly suicidal to attempt to curb the violence by taking away our ability to stand up to the purveyors of violence, be they a single crackpot like Cho or the single biggest killer on the planet - the American government.
If you want to stop school shootings, let people on campus with weapons who are carrying completely lawful concealed carry permits. That way, a guy like Cho would only succeed in killing a few people rather than murdering in cold blood and injuring 30+.
But those facts, that common sense, is completely lost on liberals - who instead want to tear down our history and rewrite it, in favor of pacifist stupidity.
ON SHEEP, WOLVES, AND SHEEPDOGS
By LTC(RET) Dave Grossman, RANGER,
Ph.D., author of “On Killing.”
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy November 24, 1997
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: “Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.
Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me, it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell.
Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, And someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful. For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
“Then there are the wolves,” the old war veteran said, “and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy.” Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
“Then there are sheepdogs,” he went on, “and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.”
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed
Let me expand on this old soldier’s excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids’ schools.
But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid’s school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial. The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, cannot and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports, in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.” Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed,
right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warrior hood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a
difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: Slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers - athletes, business people and parents. — from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. - Edmund Burke
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church. They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs. Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church. The other cop replied, “I will never be caught without my gun in church.” I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy’s body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for “heads to roll” if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids’ school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them.
Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones were attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?”
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn’t bring your gun, you didn’t train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear, helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: “…denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn’t so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling.” Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level. And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes.
If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself…”Baa.”
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other.
Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
You, my dear fellow, are a sheep. And Thanks be to God that there are sheepdogs among us who are willing and able to defend all of us, including the completely defenseless morally bankrupt idiots like you!
hey reid, maybe you should check with the military instead of guys like john kerry who’ve sold out their country with the enemy before! just remember, harry, you’re walking a slippery slope….as 
