The Stark Insanity of Gun Control
Armed Citizen Brings Down Greenwood Park Mall Shooter
Greenwood Park Mall shooting: Police identify victims, gunman and armed bystander - CNN
How many more people would have been killed by this murderer if there had not been present a citizen legally carrying a firearm? Where was the law enforcement that we are told we should trust to protect our lives under such circumstances, those who were supposed to be immediately on the scene to do what this armed citizen was able to do immediately when lives were at stake?
Liberal gun control initiatives that seek to limit law-abiding citizens' access to firearms or disarm them entirely are absurd on their face and a gross insult to the intelligence of a free people. If gun control fanatics had their way, there would have been no armed citizen on hand at the Greenwood Park Mall to bring to bear deadly force on this murderer.
Gun control measures reveal either the La-La Land stupidity and ignorance of those who promote and support them, or their deliberate seditious treachery - or both.
If the objective of public policy is to protect the lives of the citizens - the most fundamental responsibility of government - and given the always limited and now deliberately decreasing capability of law enforcement to do so - particularly in urgent circumstances like this - do we then establish laws to disarm the general population or make it more difficult for them to protect their own lives, property and freedom?
No. You do exactly the opposite. You remove barriers to gun ownership and, as Thomas Jefferson did, encourage every law-abiding citizen to own a firearm, emphasizing that it is the citizens' "right and duty to be at all times armed".
One can sense the meaning of the word “duty” in what this armed citizen was able to accomplish for his fellow citizens yesterday at the Greenwood Mall. Though he obviously chose to carry a weapon, his choice enabled him to save the lives - perhaps many lives - of his fellow human beings. Do we not, as free men and women, have a duty to render such service, to be prepared to render such service, when we are free and empowered by our Constitution to do so? I believe what this citizen did is exactly what Jefferson had reference to when he said it was the duty of every citizen to be armed at all times, thus enabling him or her to render such service should he or she be called upon to do so. Sadly, our having long lived in a society that in the past separated us from the kind of savagery seen in recent mass shootings has also separated us from that bedrock sense of duty. No longer!
As civil society rots away before our very eyes, lawlessness abounds, the power and willingness of corrupt government to defend the lives of the citizenry declines (witness the ineptitude and cowardice of Uvalde law enforcement that cost the lives of many young school children) - and the lives of decent people everywhere are increasingly at risk, the responsibility to protect the lives, property and liberty of the people is revealed to be where it always really was - with the people themselves. If those whom the people have deputized to protect their lives will not or cannot do it, the people must do it themselves - must be free to do it themselves.
Under such circumstances, what kind of insanity - or treachery - is it to disarm law-abiding people? If it comes down to a shootout in the street, as it did in this case and most likely will again, does it make any kind of sense - apart from an evil and treacherous rationale that militates against the well-being and true interests of the people - to disarm the public and render them helpless victims, prey to the lawless and violent?
How much longer will a free people, in whom all power resides, put up with this deadly nonsense?
"Aux arms, citoyens!"
Torquemada
p.s. Some days back I posted on Substack a piece concerning the “hard doctrine” a free people must embrace regarding their right to keep and bear arms. In light of yesterday’s events at the Greenwood Mall, it might be worth revisiting. Here below is the link:
Hard Doctrine - by Ronald T. Jones - TorqTalk (substack.com)