I don’t wish to dismiss the well-meaning people who struggle to find a way to make sense of a senseless crime like a madman executing dozens of people. I’m sure their hearts are in the right place.
But I wonder why all these good folks have such a mental block about something as vital as The Bill of Rights?
You see, there is only one way that a evil monster who is intent on killing as many people as he can will be stopped.
He will only stop when he is killed. And the only way to kill him is for an ordinary citizen, someone who is licensed and trained to carry and handle a weapon, to take aim and fire.
It’s called the Second Amendment.
Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of allowing people to have this fundamental right. The very reason people desperately want to protect the right to keep and bear arms is so they can continue to defend and protect themselves – and others.
Can you picture how many lives would have been saved if a faculty member or administrator or even a janitor who is licensed to carry a gun would have been able to take the killer out?
That wasn’t going to happen because Virginia Tech is a self-proclaimed, “Gun-free zone.” In fact, two years ago, almost two years to the date of this week’s killings, a young college student at Virginia Tech was found to have a handgun on campus.
One would have thought he was hiding a nuclear bomb.
Despite having every legal right to carry, and therefore not facing any criminal the charges, Virginia Tech nonetheless disciplined him. In fact, the same school spokesman who had to preside over the grim press conferences this week in Blacksburg was the man who told reporters, “We don’t feel that the campus is an environment where people should be able to carry guns.”
As Dr. Phil would ask, “How’s that working for you?”
I was on a panel this week on Fox News Channel which included one of the other guests suggesting that this is “not the time to debate gun control or having guns on campus, this is a time to talk about campus security.” I wondered aloud why he didn’t understand that having legal guns on campus is precisely the way to improve campus security.
No siren or email campaign or lockdown is going to stop a mass murderer. Just like Columbine, not a single police officer was able to engage this week’s killer. He only ended when he was ready to end it. Everything was on his terms.
Let’s bring it back to our terms again. Let’s embrace the U.S. Constitution, not ignore it. Let’s fight evil with might and force.
We have to shoot back.