by John Sneed » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:01 pm
Another mad man has shot up another school. The loss of life at such young ages and the loss of such older folks working to make their lives better is a great tragedy. It always is.
It proves an old martial arts truism, you can't protect yourself from crazies. If a person is intent on killing people, there is little to nothing a person can do to stop them.
Politicians know this. They are impotent when these types of tragedies occur. They know they are impotent. Yet, inside all of us is a deep seated desire to do [i]something[/i], do take some kind of action. But there is nothing that can be done to stop the crazies, so in an effort to be seen doing something, politicians attack the only people they can, the law abiding citizens. Crazies don't care about guns laws, or judicial penalties, or the value of life or anything else. Only law abiding citizens will obey laws. So, politicians try to pass laws to make gun ownership harder for the only people they can threaten with their laws.
So, as families are planning the funerals of their loved ones the cable news networks are doing everything they can to turn the minds of people towards gun registration, gun confiscation, banning ammunition, and other schemes that will only hurt law abiding citizens and that will do nothing, not one thing, to stop another school shooting.
Ultimately, everyone will feel like they did something, and they will feel like they gave justice to the shooters victims. Our freedoms are eroding away more and more every day. When we are faced with a growing number of bad guys and no way left to defend ourselves, we will remember, we honored the victims by turning us all into victims.