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To: R_Kangel
This is strange, I heard a live report from NIU yesterday saying that the campus police were armed.

Means nothing. Street cops are armed and they get killed, too. In fact, cops have such tight ROE (Rules Of Engagement) that sometimes they're easier victims than a ccw citizen! The really odd thing is that the liberal sheep in the region seem to favor still stricter gun control laws as if that's going to help! I wonder what a cross between a sheep and an ostrich looks like? OBAMA territory for sure! Wonder how he'll react to this on the stump?

19 posted on 02/16/2008 3:07:20 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier; R_Kangel

Once more...

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.”

—Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment (1764).

Yesterday seven people lost their lives to a madman. It is tragic, but equally as tragic is the sheeple have abandon their responsibility for their own safety and outsourced that responsibility to a government that is not legally bound to protect them!

As hard as this may sound, they were complicit in their own deaths by the inaction not to secure their own safety.

Another shooting in a “gun free zone”. The folly of it all, if it were not so tragic.


25 posted on 02/16/2008 7:23:04 AM PST by mr_hammer (Checking the breeze and barking at things that go bump in the night...stupid dog?)
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