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Gun Control
Mentality
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Frank Jacoby is an
engineer in Columbus, OH]
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:03:47 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
From: "Stefan
Metzeler" <metzele@attglobal.net> Now lets forward to the promotion of safety
at home. As most Libertarians, I'm revolted at the thought that a few barbarians
with knives could take over entire planes with 60+ passengers and crew. The
sheep mentality is just incredible. Why didn't people grab anything - luggage,
trays, umbrellas, Notebooks PCs - and collectively assault those thugs???
This is one of the disasters of thinking that "government" will
take care of everything and of disarming citizens.
Exactly! It's that "gun control" mentality
that is promoted ceaselessly in the media, in our schools and in government.
Everyone (except us older folks who still remember how it used to be in America)
has been brainwashed into believing that some how "self-defense" is
just more "violence". SHAME on all those "gun control" people
who have taught Americans that the violent death of a handful of evil hijackers
is exactly the same "violence" as a plane loaded with fuel and passengers
crashing into an office building loaded with workers. Just how "sensible"
are "gun-free-zones" now? SHAME!
Yet for various reasons, carrying guns on
planes is hardly an option. Think of air rage and drunks on planes, which
have become a major problem for airlines already now. An enclosed space, such
as a plane, combined with phobias getting the better of some otherwise rational
people might create serious problems. Someone who looses control doesn't consider
the consequences of his acts anymore and might pull a gun even if he risks
being shot by other armed passengers - which could cause further disasters.
Not everyone will have frangible ammo.
L. Neil Smith may have gone just slightly overboard,
but I wonder what kind of libertarians the party has when the Ohio Libertarian
Party Director claims that the rules governing weapons on aircraft are due to
"private companies" and therefore OK. HELLO! Anyone among the "Ls"
ever hear of the FAA? It was the FAA that turned airliners into "gun-free-zones".
They even took guns from pilots to insure a successful WTC attack! It may not
be a good idea to allow every person on a plane to pack heat, but why disarm
cops, sheriffs, military personnel and other trained persons. What's wrong with
a locker to check passenger guns while in the air? Require special ammo if you
must to carry on a plane, but why make rules for terrorist "job safety"
and then call them "sensible"?
Personally I have ALWAYS flown armed and ready
for terrorism! No, not with a gun (though I considered it! You think that can't
be done? Think again bunkie!) But I always carried my Boy Scout Swiss army knife
(in my pocket) PLUS a really nasty pair of scissors in my briefcase sewing kit.
But now those days are over. I will never fly a commercial jet again! (It is
interesting that I was NEVER questioned about the Swiss Army knife and only
questioned once about the scissors...I said "My *SEWING* kit?" to the
guard and he let me pass! But my steel-toed safety shoes always created a hassle
at the metal detector!)
Those days are gone.
Not only are Swiss army knives now banned (They
were the ONLY knives previously specifically mentioned by name as allowed in
the law) but my sewing kit, my nail clippers and I presume any sharpened stick
or object too. ZERO TOLERANCE HITS THE SKIES! But I'm not some school kid whose
life can be ruined by an insane school administrator. To hell with them! Terrorists
1 ; Americans 0!
So even if in some specific places guns
are not allowed, the entire mind set of people who are used to guns and self
defense is totally different. I am thinking of one school shooting, where
the shooter was wrestled down by other kids who were used to guns. They were
able to spot the opening and were not afraid to jump the bad guy. With passengers
like these, knife wielding thugs wouldn't stand a chance. The problem we all face is that some in government
always stand ready to make citizens more and more helpless because in their
view it makes their rulership that much more secure. The fact that this policy
tends to kill lots of innocent citizens doesn't bother them in the least! The
end justifies the means! Even if this view were true (It's not! Such oppression
only ends with revolution, not a happy golden age of dictatorship! It's the
whole theory behind terrorist acts, dig?), we citizens generally do not find
helpless victimhood a desirable state.
There is no doubt, that the Gun Control people
like Sarah Brady, Howard Metzenbaum, John Glenn and even John McCain who have
all bought into and tirelessly promoted this "gun free zone" thing
are the people who REALLY have blood on their hands for the attack! ONE .38
revolver tucked in a pilots or engineers' map case could have ended each take-over
right now! One .45 handgun in a teacher's or principle's possession, would have
stopped Columbine in it's tracks! Violence is sometimes perpetrated with guns
but it is almost always stopped by persons with guns! (Police etc.) And what
really bothers me is that the Libertarian Party seems to be jumping on that
"gun control" bandwagon. Herded like sheep by the mere panic of a
hideous attack. President Bush was right on the money when he called the attack
"an attack on Freedom". That's how terrorism works! BUT GET THIS:
The real assault on freedom isn't done by THEM, it's done by scared lawmakers
and so-called "leaders" who are stampeded into passing police-state
measures in the name of "security". It's done by stupid citizens who
think that trading freedom for the *PROMISE* of security is a good deal!
One does not destroy Liberty to "protect"
it! LNS was right on the money and I'm a bit ashamed of the L's being stampeded
into abandoning Libertarian principles to attack him!
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