Virginia Tech

I.

Today is a day of infamy, to be sure.  Due to the pace at work, I have not had the opportunity to comment on the acts of an evil, evil man in Virginia today.  Sadly, because my comments earlier at work truly were but prayers for the dead, the wounded and for their families, friends and others touched by their lives.

They did not deserve to be slaughtered as sheep, but it was as sheep that they were reduced to, by the very institution which obligates itself to liberate the mind of the student. 

But instead, makes but mental slaves of them.  And in enslaving their minds, holds their bodies captive to the culture of helplessness and victimhood which results from their pursuits.

II.

Yet, the institution is ultimately, not the guilty party in this tragedy; only the hellishly demonic and evil actor, who, weilding his Glocks with a singular, deadly focus, killed some thirty-one (as of this writing) people today.

The thirty-second death wasn't a victim.  No, he was just an evil man, duly halted by means of death.  Those he killed are the victims, as are those who loved them.

The University, and with it the State Legislature of Virgina though, are accessories before the fact; their complicity residing in their having successfully fought against the proposal that free citizens ought be empowered to excercise their right to keep and bear arms on campus.

We will never know what the outcome might have been had there been but one armed, trained, licensed and able person there near to the shooter's path. 

But it is certain, that we know what occured without such a Citizen.

Pity.  Their Todd Beamer did not appear.

III.

We now hear the cries from the aforementioned Bedwetting Liberals, and their ilk.  Sadly, many of them aren't truly BWL's, as much as they are numbered among the classically uninformed.  Think of the unthinking herds of erstwhile "soccer moms"; the kind that voted their hormones for Slick Willie.

Twice.

It is this kind of unthinking feelism to which the always thinking, always calculating factions of the anti-gun left cry their appeals.  "Give us Reasonable Gun Control", they plead.  All the while ignoring the fact that there are over twenty-thousand gun control laws in existence on the Federal, State and Municpal books.

A great many of those laws are anything but reasonable. 

How, might I ask you, is it reasonable to deny a fine, upstanding citizen the very means by which to defend his or her life? 

It isn't.  It damn near never is, and those who claim that they're being reasonable, only say so for their reasons; the hope of an utterly disarmed, and defenseless society.

The only reasonable Gun Control is rapid and accurate Mozambique.

IV.

At both Columbine and now at Virginia Tech, we witnessed the abysmal failure of those who the anti-gun left proclaim to be our sole recourse, our protectors against all harm.

The complete incompetence of the local Law Enforcement response is neither unexpected or surprising.  If you've made the decision to stake your life on the competence, ability and speed of the Law Enforcement response, such is your right. 

But don't be upset if I don't share the same roll of the dice with you.  I'll gamble on my own .45, skills and experience.  Yes, experience.  No, this isn't the time to regale you with war stories.

V.

The only known Unarmed Victim Zones have been created by Government Decree, under the guise of "Gun Free Zones".

It should not be thus surprising to find that virtually all mass gun-homicides are committed in such locales.  After all, if you're going to "shoot fish in a barrel", the place to go, is the barrel Gun Free Zone.

VI.

Even in the absence of firearms, it is still evident that a culture of submission, when confronted by overt evil, can not survive. 

The only true weapon is the mind.  Everything else, guns included, is but a tool.  A prepared mind knows that a fire extinguisher is a bludgeon, that a laptop power-supply is a flail and that countless pens and pencils are lethal dirks in the hands of a determined survivor.

Interestingly, there were survivors.  Some dove out of windows, heedless of the lesser injuries cuts and of broken bones.  And they survived!

Others, trained to the sound of the gun, scurried to the sounds of the shots, and rescued those injured survivors, dragging them to cover and greater safety.

Sadly, at the last, a sizeable group of victims paid the ultimate price of a culture which no longer values the warrior, which denigrates the Wolf and venerates the Sheep.  Perhaps knowing no alternative, they did the only thing they knew to do.  Crowded together against doors chained against their escapce, they submitted.  And together, in unbeliving horror, they died.

Such a terrible, needless, unnecessary tragedy.

Conclusion.

We must learn to not be victims.

Never Again!

Comments

[Michael]

Spot on, Cap't.

Todd Beamer, indeed. There was a time where such courage was common-place and respected, but decades of "...denigrating the wolf..." and removing the People's ability to defend themselves have lead us to today's sorry state of affairs.

I've linked to your post over at my small, but tiny blog.

http://supplysidepolitics.blogspot.com/2007/04/black-day-in-blacksburg.html

[Yabu]

Just a thought, but if one, or some, of those students had a CC permit and a gun in their book bag...things might have turned out differently. There might not be 32 dead.

Just a thought.