Just say "No" to overseas cowards

Foreign news editorials are criticizing U.S. gun laws and availability following The Virginia Massacre™. From AP:

"Only the names change — And the numbers," read a headline in the Times of London. "Why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?"

I can answer that question with ease: A rampage killing is incredibly rare -- so rare it's laughable to be worried about it in the slightest. The chances of dying in an auto accident is many thousands of times greater. The chances of being killed by slipping and falling down are much greater, too.

We want guns because they are a means of protection and security, but there's much more to it than that. An armed population is a population that cannot be oppressed by government. Read about Gandhi's experience in India to find out how to control a population against its will.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." -- Gandhi. He employed passive resistance because it was his only option.

Thomas Jefferson explained the American view, with the exception of cowardly liberals, with eloquence: "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it away." When he says "they", he means government.

The French daily Le Monde said the regularity of mass shootings across the Atlantic was a blotch on America's image.

"It would be unjust and especially false to reduce the United States to the image created, in a recurrent way, from the bursts of murderous fury that some isolated individuals succumb to. But acts like this are rare elsewhere, and tend to often disfigure the 'American dream.'"

The only gun problem America has are the liberal laws preventing law abiding citizens from getting a concealed-carry permit. I can think of nothing more terrorizing than to be near a murderer killing people with a gun and not having one of my own.

Could you imagine being in your own home when a criminal breaks in and tries to kill one of your children? Liberals actually believe we shouldn't have guns to kill the criminal. My home is an armed home, and no laws, and no government, and no cowardly Europeans will ever change that.


Where the Europeans say, "Oh, my goodness, criminals can hurt and kill people with guns, so we must take them away from everyone!", Americans say, "Take away my personal protection and you will be shot." I'll take the stronger position any day.


Livin' scared in Europe

And what do you get when guns are taken away? Is all calm and peaceful? No! Britain has staged many "knife amnesty" programs. British doctor associations have called for the banning of long kitchen knives. I'm not kidding! Next it will be cricket bats because somewhere, at some time, somebody murdered somebody else with one. Given enough time, the British will be ordered by law to live their lives in rubber-lined rooms.