Guns
Today I took a moment of (more) silence at noon for the victims of VT. While working this afternoon I found this article:
By Ted Nugent
Special to CNN
Editor's note: Rock guitarist Ted Nugent has sold more than 30 million albums. He's also a gun rights activist and serves on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association. His program, "Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild," can be seen on the Outdoor Channel.
Read an opposing take on gun control from journalist Tom Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms
WACO, Texas (CNN) -- Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.
Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.
A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.
At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.
More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.
My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby's Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden "feel good" politics.
She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.
No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.
Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.
Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn't think so.
Who doesn't get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?
I'll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that's who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to "feel good" is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.
Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children's school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.
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For background information, I was raised in a Jewish household where guns were tabu. In fact, my mother acts as if the guns will go off by themselves.. so I have always been very wary of guns.
Today I am married to a man that hunts deer. We have guns in our house. In fact, earlier this year we bought me a 9mm Glock, a handgun that I can use, that is the same type that Cho used at VT this week. I am not afraid of guns now as I know that people shoot guns, and if you handle guns with care, people will not get hurt.
I'm not for carrying around guns all day long every day. But I do recognize that a person that is psychotic, as Cho was, his weapon would've been a gun, a knife, or whatever. And also, he was not just "depressed." I am depressed.. he was psychotic. Depressed (only) people do not go around killing other people. He was way beyond "depressed."
As far as mental illnesses, there is help. All kinds out there. If you are depressed, bipolar, schizophrenic, there is medication and counseling. Not everyone responds the same, but it would steer the person in the direction other than killing and suicide.
Cho, while he was shooting, had to reload his gun at least 5 times. Was everyone shot so badly that they couldn't tackle him? Were they so surprised? What would I do in that instance? (probably play dead if I wasn't actually dead like a lot of the students). But that was our first thought.. what about when he was reloading? And truthfully, if I hadn't shot a gun myself.. I wouldn't have thought of that.
Cho had 5 rounds of 10 bullets each (50 bullets). Each time he fires 10 shots, he must put in another cartridge. Unless he is very fast, there is a pause while he does that. He wasn't a big guy. Could I have taken him on? (I'm sure I weigh more than him).
Besides that.. though. He should have never gotten a gun to begin with because of his mental illness. He was deemed a threat to others. And yes, I am angry that he wasn't an American citizen. Perhaps only American citizens, and non psychotic people can have guns.
Again, I am not defending the shooter and I am definitely not saying the students deserved to get shot. Not at all. It was a horrible thing that happened. But it does make me wonder.. he had a gun, and all the good guys out there did not. :-(
Of course I don't know the answer. This is truly my own opinion.
By Ted Nugent
Special to CNN
Editor's note: Rock guitarist Ted Nugent has sold more than 30 million albums. He's also a gun rights activist and serves on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association. His program, "Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild," can be seen on the Outdoor Channel.
Read an opposing take on gun control from journalist Tom Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms
WACO, Texas (CNN) -- Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.
Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.
A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.
At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.
More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.
My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby's Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden "feel good" politics.
She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.
No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.
Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.
Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn't think so.
Who doesn't get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?
I'll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that's who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to "feel good" is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.
Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children's school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.
-------------------------------------
For background information, I was raised in a Jewish household where guns were tabu. In fact, my mother acts as if the guns will go off by themselves.. so I have always been very wary of guns.
Today I am married to a man that hunts deer. We have guns in our house. In fact, earlier this year we bought me a 9mm Glock, a handgun that I can use, that is the same type that Cho used at VT this week. I am not afraid of guns now as I know that people shoot guns, and if you handle guns with care, people will not get hurt.
I'm not for carrying around guns all day long every day. But I do recognize that a person that is psychotic, as Cho was, his weapon would've been a gun, a knife, or whatever. And also, he was not just "depressed." I am depressed.. he was psychotic. Depressed (only) people do not go around killing other people. He was way beyond "depressed."
As far as mental illnesses, there is help. All kinds out there. If you are depressed, bipolar, schizophrenic, there is medication and counseling. Not everyone responds the same, but it would steer the person in the direction other than killing and suicide.
Cho, while he was shooting, had to reload his gun at least 5 times. Was everyone shot so badly that they couldn't tackle him? Were they so surprised? What would I do in that instance? (probably play dead if I wasn't actually dead like a lot of the students). But that was our first thought.. what about when he was reloading? And truthfully, if I hadn't shot a gun myself.. I wouldn't have thought of that.
Cho had 5 rounds of 10 bullets each (50 bullets). Each time he fires 10 shots, he must put in another cartridge. Unless he is very fast, there is a pause while he does that. He wasn't a big guy. Could I have taken him on? (I'm sure I weigh more than him).
Besides that.. though. He should have never gotten a gun to begin with because of his mental illness. He was deemed a threat to others. And yes, I am angry that he wasn't an American citizen. Perhaps only American citizens, and non psychotic people can have guns.
Again, I am not defending the shooter and I am definitely not saying the students deserved to get shot. Not at all. It was a horrible thing that happened. But it does make me wonder.. he had a gun, and all the good guys out there did not. :-(
Of course I don't know the answer. This is truly my own opinion.