Tue 4/17/2007
The argument is basically between pacifists and
the sane. Pacifists believe that society can be made better by
willfully abandoning violence; sane people know that there will always
be violence, and the best way to cope with it is to let individuals —
and groups, if necessary — defend themselves in an orderly fashion.
That
is, “gun control” — the idiotic remedy advanced by progressives
for the
Virginia massacre — is a form of pacifism; a form of the belief that
if
we all do something high-minded together, the world will be a better
place.
Individual instances of gun control are not necessarily
pacifist; localities traditionally have controlled the use of weapons,
going back to ancient Rome and beyond. What is pacifist is the
intellectual movement which claims that the more
gun control, the better. This is idiotic. It is exactly the kind of
childish pacifist sentiment that was a significant component of
Hitler’s early success.
In the case of the Virginia massacre,
gun control was at least partly responsible;
it is hard to believe that on a campus populated by young men, someone
wouldn’t’ve have put a bullet in the lunatic’s head early-on
— were it not for existing campus gun prohibitions.