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The Lesson of the Texas School Non-Shooting

 

"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.

 

What America AIN'T

 

Right after World War II, an American was telling a European refugee in New York about what was wrong with America. The immigrant replied, "Yes, but you just don't appreciate what America AIN'T."

It is very, very important for us to take this point seriously. Everybody wants to take credit for "what America is all about."

In my opinion, what makes America great is that we got a fresh start in 1790.

But that great start consisted mostly of NOT doing things. Our Founding Fathers were determined not to make the same mistakes Europe had, and they did a great job of it.

But I never see anybody, liberal or conservative, ever mention that what America is about is dropping the European nonsense. Today, the official historian of respectable conservatism, Michael Jaffe, says that about the only thing that America was founded on was five words in the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal."

A liberal will tell you that what America is all about is multiculturalism and multiracialism. Back here in the real world, there was not a single Founding Father who did not take it for granted that America was white and Northern European.

A conservative will tell you America Is All About Religion. We have the healthiest churches on earth, but we also have the first churches on earth that were built and maintained PRIVATELY. Every European state pays for its churches and sponsors its churches. And in every European country religion is dying.
 

"The Business of America is Business" - But WHOSE Business?

Liberals say that Calvin Coolidge was evil because he said "The business of America is business." They say the business of America is enforcing equality and integrating all white majority countries.

Conservatives say that they agree that What America Is All About is "all men are created equal." But they say that this should be done by capitalist means. Business will use the Free Market to bring third world labor into Europe, America, and other white countries.

Conservatives agree with liberals that making the first world brown is What America is All About, but they insist that ridding the world of white people can be done best by following Coolidge's motto, "The business of America is business."

The problem is not whether Equality should be enforced in the name of God, Social Progress or Capitalism. The problem is, as usual, that neither conservatives nor liberals have the slightest idea what they are talking about.

It was Teddy Roosevelt, not Calvin Coolidge, who is first quoted as saying "the business of America is business." Any person of reasonable intelligence knows that such an obvious pun would have been made thousands of times before even Teddy Roosevelt was born.

Benjamin Franklin probably said "The business of America is minding your business" when he was debating in favor of "Mind your business" as our national motto.

The sense of Franklin's "Mind your Business" motto is enshrined in the Preamble to the United States Constitution. The real founding document of this country says the exact opposite of "all men are created equal."

The Constitution of the United States says very specifically what the United States is NOT about. It dedicates America to the people OF THE UNITED STATES, to "OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY."

The United States Constitution starts with the declaration that all the United States Government is about is minding our own business and taking care of our own people.

The genius of the Founders was not what they felt America Is All About, but their conviction that America would never make Europe's mistakes. The genius of the Founding Fathers lies in their realizing what America AIN'T.


 

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