Viginia Tech, a day of rememberence, & a day of anger towards anti-gun school administrations.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Well before I start, I want to say that I’m very sad for the families & victims of Seung-Hui Cho. It is one of those tragedies that none of us will ever forget.
However it’s also my responsibility to expose the truth wherever the gun hating leftist media in our country will not. The truth is, what ended up being a 1 against 32 slaughter, could have been much different if a few students & faculty were allowed to defend themselves against an attacker. Even a handful of trained & lethally armed security guards would have cut the carnage down significantly. Logic dictates that if a few responsible individuals trained to use a firearm were present, Cho would have been taken down, or at least chased off before he could kill more than perhaps 5 or 10 people. But all those things were against the “Campus Rules”. Rules that people like Seung-Hui Cho will never follow.
But on this day one year ago, Viginia Tech was a campus completely owned & operated for all practical purposes by Seung-Hui Cho. He was the rule of law. He was the purveyor of twisted justice in his own mind, & because he was the only one who had the firepower to enforce it, it went exactly how he planned it. He was judge, jury, & executioner.
Anti gun proponents like Thom Mannard, president of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, will tell us bold face lies by saying that; “What never really seems to occur is a real, thorough discussion on the fact that often the only common denominator in these tragedies is the use of guns. There is no other weapon that is legally available that can kill so many in such a short period of time. It’s amazing that more people don’t make that simple acknowledgment.”
What’s amazing to me Mr. Thom Mannard, is that you left out these other common demominators in these tragedies; The Immorality of the perpetrator(s), their Rage, their Malice, & often times their mental illness, substance abuse, & alcoholism.. Just a few little details you forgot to mention hmmm?
He also said this: “How many innocent victims must we lose on college campuses, in shopping malls, city halls and other public places before we say this is enough and start to discuss the role that guns are playing in all these tragedies,” Mannard continued. “We can no longer avoid the fact that guns are the common denominator in all these events, and that guns are the only type of weapon legally available in this country that can kill so many people in such a short period of time.
Oh really Thom Mannard? Here’s proof you are deadly wrong. A driver who wasn’t even trying to aim his car at anyone hit a crowd of people killing 8 of them instantly. Imagine if he was purposefully aiming it at a densely packed crowd of people?
New Hybrid vehicles have almost zero operational noise, making it a stealth weapon, even with the coming “noise makers” to protect blind pedestrains added to them. Those “safety features” will of course be easily defeated by crafty car owners & modders who are bitter over buying a car that could be quieter. One could drive a vehicle like that through or around barricades & take out 20- 30 parade goers or first night celebration attendees in a blink of an eye. That’s with out first loading the vehicle up with large metal gasoline containers wrapped with sheets of automatic nail gun nails, & igniting those when the perpetrator gets into the crowd. The car, the Gasoline, the nails, the automotive spark plug, & spark plug wire are all readily available to anyone who wants them. So only two conclusions remain, either Thom Mannard is a very naive soul, or he’s a liar with an anti-gun & second amendment agenda. Are we going to ban all Home improvement items too?
From the National the Centers for Disease Control:
In 2004, poisoning deaths exceeded those related to firearms by 2%; however, the difference increased to 7% in 2005, with 32,691 poisoning deaths compared with 30,694 firearm deaths. Motor vehicle traffic (MVT) deaths were the leading cause of injury death from 1999-2005, accounting for 43,667 deaths in 2005. From 2004 to 2005, MVT deaths increased 1%, firearm deaths, 4% and poisoning deaths, 8%. (1,2)
Much of the poisoning is related to drug abuse by the way.
Number of Death in Population by Motor Vehicles between 1999 & 2005: 268,732
So here’s my question to people like Thom Mannard. Since the U.S. constitution specifically guarantees our right to bear arms (most legal scholars believe the Supreme court will confirm & uphold that fact this summer), but the constitution does not specifically guarantee our right to own say a wagon or a horse, which is what they had back then when they wrote it, why then aren’t you trying to stop us from driving the automobile which is statistically proven to be more deadly than the gun?
A Podium Vs. a Gun
Erin Sheehan was a freshman last year when the shooting happened. She was overlooked by the gunman during the shooting because she “played dead”. After that, she had the unfortunate task of trying to keep him out, armed with only a piece of wooden furniture. She’s been quoted as saying the following:
“I tried to use a podium at the front of the classroom to block the door, because the gunman was shoving at the door and started firing through the door. We didn’t think we were going to be able to hold it.”
I strongly commend Erin for her bravery in trying to do at least “something” in the face of danger, but I think it’s safe to say that she was one of many fish being shot at in a barrel, & she was trying to protect herself by pulling only a wooden lid over it, instead of doing what we regularly have our police & military do when enemies attack, SHOOT BACK! This is because of the irresponsible & just plain neurotic demands by the liberal college administrations around the country, that students & faculty walk around in a fantasy world where gun bans will keep criminals from getting or using weapons. The truth is, he could have walked into that same classroom with a well constructed pipe bomb full of nuts bolts ect, & killed as many people. He could even have thrown one through the window, & then moved to another area to do the same. It’s not the guns that are the problem, it’s the break down of morality in a society that has submitted to liberal democratic rule, & principles, instead of the principles of the Republic it once was.
I’ve had guns at my disposal for a greater part of my life, but yet I’ve never come close to shooting anyone. However, you can bet that if I were near the college the day that Seung-Hui Cho was there & heard shooting & screaming, I would have hunted him down & shot him to stop him from hurting anymore people. Gun ban or not, my Pistol would have gone with me, & common sense & the spirit of the law would have at the moment overruled the “form” of the law.
This is not rocket science people. It’s common sense, & it’s not that hard to understand if you take the time to read through the facts that could save your life.
While wussey little college administrators are pontificating to the rest of us about what we can & can’t do to protect ourselves, they are putting peoples lives at risk to build a political reality for themselves. That would be a fascist state of rule where they can control the masses, & dangle your safety in front of you like a carrot in front of a cold hungry & scared little bunny who needs their protection to survive. Remember, when the nearest cop is 15 minutes away, most colleges will have you out in the open halls of a classroom, while the administrators are safely locked behind pass code/card swiped doors. How many college administrators, board members ect. were killed during the rampages at VT & NIU? None? e-mail me if I’m wrong & I’ll make the correction, but suffice to say it was significantly lower than the students they disarmed & marched out onto the front lines of the real world.
Well last year, they didn’t protect you, now did they? Yeah sure, leave it up to the Dean who always has the option of locking the thick hardwood oak door to his/her office, & hiding under their desk until police arrive with GUNS to save them. It makes me sick.. Weapons will never go away, nor will evil on earth. When will these people stop living a fantasy, & allow people to protect themselves from harm? The government, bureaucracies, & certainly your college administrators can’t protect you. I don’t think anyone can seriously argue that this has been conclusively proven over the last few years, at colleges & even high schools across America. ~Dan Lee
