When the
Cambrian Measures were forming, they promised perpetual peace, They swore if we
gave them our weapons the wars of the tribes would cease… –Rudyard Kipling
On June 17, Charleston, South Carolina, Dyllan Roof entered
the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
Church and began the horrific mass shooting that would leave nine
dead. Dyllan Roof was, as has been pointed out by a now famous cover of the New York Daily News, a terrorist.
But that same paper, in a monumental breach of professional reporting,
dropped all pretense of being fair and balanced, dropped all pretense of
following the long history of journalism, where you report the facts, not your
own radical opinions. After calling Roof a terrorist, the Daily News, over a picture of Wayne LaPierre, a caption reads “And so is
this man.”
What
was Mr. LaPierre’s crime that caused him to be dubbed a terrorist on the front
page of a so called “newspaper”? He is the executive vice president of the NRA,
and he agrees with the founding fathers that guns are a right that shall not be
infringed.
In
recent weeks, when the Planned Parenthood shooting happened, many people seemed
very confused as to the nature of the attacks. Many said that Rand Paul and Ted
Cruz and indeed, anybody that is a modern progressive who understands that the
way of the future is more guns, less gun free zones, and more liberty for gun
owners is to blame because of some crazed maniacs.
When Dyllan
Roof shot up a church, we didn’t blame atheism for causing him to be
anti-Christian, because of course we realized that it wasn’t Bill Maher and
Richard Dawkins fault. When Muslims cut off people’s heads, bomb buildings,
shoot people in San Bernardino, we don’t blame Islam. We blame the radical
terrorists themselves; because of course it’s their fault and no else’s.
One of
the most glaringly idiotic statements about the most recent, horrific mass
shootings, came, unsurprisingly, from The
Huffington Post, or, as you may know
it, that place where they believe in flying pigs. The Post actually called the San Bernardino terrorist massacre “gun
inspired.” Of course, it was no more “gun inspired” than Cain’s attack on Abel
was “rock inspired.” It was sin inspired. It was hatred inspired. It was radical
Islam inspired.
The mantra
seems to be, from many of those who are anti-progress and refuse to learn from
history, that because there are innocent victims that are being horribly
murdered we need to do something, and that is true. But then the mantra becomes
that we need to disarm ourselves. Which makes sense-not at all. An unarmed society
is much like a sheep herd, vulnerable, helpless, and forcibly led by any shepherd
with the will to do so.
Hillary
Clinton and her allies shout out that “we do not want to take away all your guns.
Just the dangerous ones.” But, as has been pointed out, “If they can ban one,
they can ban them all.”
The
deaths of innocent victims should be a time grieving and then striking back at
the root causes of such mass shootings. Clinical insanity, sin, radical Islam,
etc. The tools used in them are barely important. If we took away all guns we
would have mass stabbings, just ask China.
Ted
Cruz isn’t a terrorist, and neither is Wayne LaPierre, but I do know that the
person who called him that isn’t a journalist.
The
poem I began with, by Rudyard Kipling, continues on from the promises of
perpetual peace by saying: But when we disarmed they sold us, and delivered us bound to our foes.
Thus is the end of all such endeavors.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not infringed.
No
matter what.
Andrew
C. Abbott
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