Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Right of Self Defense

Just as I have said before, it is a fools paradise to believe that gun control stops crime when there is absolutely no statistical evidence to prove otherwise. Criminals - or those who would want to hurt you, or our kids, will continue to do so because no law, restriction will stop a killer from killing or from obtaining the means to do so. Except a well placed bullet to their head.

- Macsmind (read full article here)

I agree.

If one of the Virginia Tech students had pulled a gun from her purse and shot Cho in the head, the killing would have stopped right there.

2 comments:

Mark said...

Going off to college today?

Laptop? Check

Ipod? Check

Cellphone? Check

Bike? Check

Handgun? Check

Looks like we may need to spend more time in self defense training this summer.

Mark said...

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

Virginian Thomas Jefferson