"Be afraid of no man who walks beneath the skies
As long as I am by your side I will equalize"
That poem was etched on each Colt revolver in the
Old West.
The Colt came to be called "The Equalizer."
Studies show that a gun often saves women's lives
today by being an equalizer:
"Whereas a woman may be severely beaten, even killed,
if she resists by using her fists - where the man
likely has her outmatched," - says gun expert
Professor Lott -- "by far the safest course
of action is to have a gun. A woman who behaves
passively is 2.5 times as likely to end up being
seriously injured as a woman who has a gun. "
All this is the direct opposite of the establishment
position. You have heard that official position
a hundred times and you will hear it hundreds more:
cooperate with the criminal. Give him anything he
wants. Invite him home to rape your daughter.
Above all, no one should fight crime except a uniformed
representative of the government. That is the liberal
solution.
No liberal solution ever works.
School shootings are celebrated regularly by the
media as reasons for banning any honest person from
being armed. In Texas, a school superintendent walked
up to a boy with a gun and took it away from him.
According the official position of the National
Education Association, that superintendent should
be fired. He gave his students the worst possible
example. Yet no one in the NEA had the guts to criticize
him.
On Flight 93, September 11, 2001, the honest passengers
broke the "no resistance" rule. They attacked the
hijackers and died doing it. This kept the plane
from being used as a weapon against the White House
or some other target.
Once again, no liberal organization has had the
guts to attack the Flight 93 passengers for their
"vigilante" action. But official advice insists
that they should have cooperated and waited for
a duly credentialed and uniformed government employee
to take action.
If a single honest passenger had had a gun on Flight
93, no one would have been killed. Oddly enough,
that comment never appears in the press.
The liberal-European approach to crime is to have
government, and only government, DO SOMETHING! In
Europe, the crime rate has skyrocketed. Anywhere
liberals rule, the crime rate shoots up.
Americans leave it to honest people to do something.
The last thing any sane person would do when citizens
are in danger is to spend government resources on
an effort to prevent them from defending themselves.
So naturally disarming honest people is the first
response of liberals and Europeans.
Americans leave it to the people to do something.
Our greatest contribution to history has been in
teaching the world that the best things come from
what our government does NOT do.
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