I came across this quote in an email this afternoon and felt like I should share it:
Quote of the Day:
“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an
equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no
other.”– Carl Schurz, (1829-1906) German born U.S. Senator and Union Army
general during the US Civil War
Reading through the Wikipedia entry on Carl Schurz shows a couple of other great quotations. How have I never heard of this man before?
Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster – CNN.com
WACO, Texas (CNN) — Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby’s Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I’ve about had enough of it.
I like what this guy is saying, an armed nation is far better off than an unarmed nation. Criminals will always be able to get weapons. So if you take them away from the law abiding people then you have just made life so much easier for the criminals. They know that the police cannot respond immediately, they have a window of opportunity to act before they are in danger from someone who carries a weapon, so the crime still happens. Now think about if every person carried a gun. Would the petty thief still try to take your wallet, knowing that instead of leather they could be getting lead? Would the shooter at Vigrinia Tech still have killed 32 people, or would he have been stopped much sooner if one of the bystanders had been armed? Face it folks, gun control is just a knee jerk, selfish, reaction from people who are unable to see the reality of the world around them. Gun control has caused deaths in its own right, I lay the blame of Virginia Tech firmly at the feet of the gun control lobby. Face the facts, guns arent the problem, nor the solution, they are simply tools. Cope With It!