Originally Posted by
Socrtease
And have you noticed NONE of the gun fraidy cats want to touch this. This guy kept deaths to a minimum because he thought quickly and acted. We will never know how many lives he actually saved. For that I am sure those people and their families are thankful.
The leftists in our government always enact the most restrictive laws on law-abiding gun owner, after some tragedy like Virginia Tech or the Columbine shootings, etc. And the laws they enact, invariably have no effect whatsoever on people who want to murder lots of their fellow men - they only restrict people who obey laws. It's becoming more and more clear, that that's exactly who the leftists WANT to restrict. They could enact laws that work instead, quite easily if they wanted to.
Wayne LaPierre, then-VP of the National Rifle Association, commented on this tendency in the Clinton administration in 2000. He was right on the money when he said "I've come to believe that he needs a certain level of violence in this country. He's willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president, too."
Incidents like this one in Israel are common, where a law-abiding citizen who armed himself was able to stop a masscre before the police could do it, or the one in a Colorado Springs church where an armed woman did the same thing even more quickly, or even the incident in Pearl, Mississippi where a teacher was able to stop a student from killing other students. Such facts tend to debunk the wild predictions spread by the Big-govt advocates, that law-abiding people with guns will result in more killings, not less. So it's no surprise that such facts are absent from the press's reporting on them.
In Israel, though, they have an enforced interest in keeping themselves alive in the face of fanatical murderers all around them. They can't afford to play games with laws that feel good but don't work, or playing politcis with death as U.S. leftists chronically do. They have to enact laws that WORK, or they're DEAD.
And so they permit students to carry concealed weapons to class. Lo and behold, no OK-Corral-style gunfights over somebody's lunch money. But not many insane murderers in their schools, either... and the rare one who does try, winds up quickly dead and unable to keep killing innocent people.
We could learn a lot from Israel... if our politicians didn't mind the message and its proof.
The Constitution isn't perfect, but it's better than the system we're using now.
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