VERBATIM
There has been a horrendous mass shooting at the Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. At this time, 27 people are
reported dead, most of them children.
This shooting is yet another tragic example of the failed, grotesque
insistence on helpless victim zones where any crazed gunman can be
assured of a large number of disarmed, undefended, helpless victims, all
crammed into one place, where he can kill many children before an
armed defender arrives from elsewhere.
It is disturbing and sick that
the federal government so hates the right of the American people to
bear arms, and so hates their natural right to self defense, that the
government insists on making them helpless, disarmed victims for anyone
who cares to kill them. And in this case, all of the teachers and
staff were willfully disarmed by the Federal Government, by force of law
and threat of prison, to ensure that they would be disarmed and
incapable of saving the lives of the children entrusted to their care.
That makes the Federal Government complicit in the deaths of these
children, and in fact an accessory to their mass murder, by forcibly
disarming (with the very real threat of prison) all the teachers, all
the staff, and any parent who may have been on school property. That
stupid law guaranteed the shooters would meet
no immediate armed resistance, which is exactly what is needed to stop such an attack.
In such a shooting (as in every criminal attack), seconds count, and
the people best positioned to stop the attack are the people on the
scene – the intended victims and/or their care-takers. In this case,
that would mean the teachers and staff of the school who were
responsible for the well-being of those children, and also the parents,
who should have the ability to save the lives of their own children as
they take them to and from school.
The police cannot, and do not arrive in time to stop such shooters
from killing large numbers of people. They are a slow reactive force
compared to an armed citizen on the scene. This should be common
sense, as it is obvious that in the immediacy of a criminal attack, it
is the intended victims (or their immediate care-takers) who are there,
in position to put a stop to the attack, if they are capable. And being
capable means being armed, trained, willing, and able to use deadly
force, right then, right there. Anything less leads to what we saw
here.
But no doubt the rabid anti-gun government supremacists will use
this to further their agenda to disarm the American people, totally
ignoring that obvious, plain-as-day truth. Anti-gun nuts trust the
government with guns, but not the people, and insist that the lowly
citizen must be disarmed and helpless in the face of murderous assault,
and must wait on slow responding armed government employees, who will
not be there when the attack starts, and most often can only really
clean up the horrendous crime scene afterwards and maybe, just maybe
apprehend a shooter who has chosen not to kill himself (as they usually
do).
The bottom line is that these teachers and staff at the Sandy Hook
Elementary School were incapable of keeping these children safe, and
incapable of defending them. And one of the biggest reasons they were
so incapable and unprepared to save the lives of the children entrusted
to their care is because the anti-gun nuts and their fellow travelers in
government insisted on
disarming
every adult in the vicinity, by threatening them with prison time –
EXCEPT the gunmen, who don’t care about the law and thus were not
disarmed. laws against carrying weapons in schools don’t stop evil
men with murderous intent. Such laws only disarm the law abiding and
virtuous, who are now rendered incompetent to defend the precious
children in their care.
This is disgusting. And yet another reason to home-school. Why
would you want to leave your children helpless, in the hands of adults
who are themselves helpless, and incapable of defending them, by
government decree? For all we know, one of the teachers may have been a
veteran, with the training and skill to use a firearm if one had been
available. But all the teachers and staff, whatever their ability with
firearms, were stripped of the choice and chance to save the lives of
these kids.
There are more good guys than bad guys in the world. But the good
guys need to be able to stop the bad guys, and that means they need to
be armed so they can stop the bad guys on the spot, without having to
wait for “official” government approved good guys to respond. Trust the
teachers with arms so they can save the lives of their students.
Until the adults are allowed to actually act like adults, and defend
themselves and their students, this kind of willful killing will
continue to happen, and the federal government will in each case be a
guilty party to the conspiracy by ensuring that the targets are
disarmed.
Until this changes, you should refuse to give your children over to
government schools lorded over by a Federal Government so callous and
indifferent to their safety and lives.
Stewart Rhodes
