Posted on 04/22/2007 3:16:32 AM PDT by Puzzleman
Within hours of the Virginia Tech massacre, the New York Times had identified the problem: ''What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.''
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The "gun-free zone" fraud isn't just about banning firearms or even a symptom of academia's distaste for an entire sensibility of which the Second Amendment is part and parcel but part of a deeper reluctance of critical segments of our culture to engage with reality. Michelle Malkin wrote a column a few days ago connecting the prohibition against physical self-defense with "the erosion of intellectual self-defense," and the retreat of college campuses into a smothering security blanket of speech codes and "safe spaces" that's the very opposite of the principles of honest enquiry and vigorous debate on which university life was founded. And so we "fear guns," and "verbal violence," and excessively realistic swashbuckling in the varsity production of ''The Three Musketeers.'' What kind of functioning society can emerge from such a cocoon?
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Good stuff from Godwin. He’s really been on a roll lately.
I think it's a soul-devouring bacteria better know as Satan.
I have that book and it is true that in most instances the police cannot be sued if you call them and still are hurt before they arrive. I was amused to read of an exception in Chicago, but as I recall, some seven conditions had to be met, all of them seemingly unlikely to occur at the same time.
Mark lives in Lyme, NH.
Google “Mark Steyn” and “NH”... : )
That is my all time favorite quote from the greatest President in my lifetime.
I could never envision a modern democrat saying anything like this. Why? Because they just don’t believe it.
Great picture...I propose we have a Mark Steyn rule similar to the Ann Coulter rule...of course we women will be more mature about it. (Snicker!)
Beam me up, Scotty.
No intelligent life here.
Great post, thank you.
Bruck, ping to #55.
He needs a show on FNC.
I told Ms. Office Liberal last week that having a gun is like having a fire extinguisher - of course you're going to call 911 if something happens, but what do you do till they get there?
No answer, of course.
Probably true. With his henchmen (or should that be henchpersons), liberals.
Steyn is superb as always.
Steyn is superb as always.
One person with a weapon could have stopped the carnage.
The liberals never get it.
Excellent!!
Yes!!!
“Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.” — L. Neil Smith
Libertarian and 2nd Amendment SF author. Good reads.
Thanks.
I credit the freeper I stole it from!
I don’t exactly like the way he tells the story of the Dartmouth College murders. To start with, the perpetrators, Parker and Tulloch, had approached other houses over the previous months, as Steyn notes. But in some cases they did get in, but left without accomplishing their grand design of a thrill kill. Then, when in the living room of Half Zantop, they suddenly seized him and cut his throat. His wife rushed in, and was then attacked “and stabbed a lot of times.” They then cut the throats of their victims again. They did not take their bank cards or objects of value, so it was not really a robbery.
Steyn makes it sound as if the gullibility and liberal opinions of the two professors made them sitting ducks for murder. But that is not really so. I do not know if they had a gun, but even if they did, Half Zantop would not have answered the door holding it. He had little rational reason to fear for his safety:
Ranked as the safest campus among the Ivies, Dartmouth is a place where student are used to boasting about the sense of security and confidence at their school. In the past half century, there has only been one other murder: two Ethiopian students were killed by a jealous boyfriend more than a decade ago.
From what I read, the two murdered professors seemed like great people.
On campus, memorial services were held for the Zantops, who are remembered as active and cherished members of the Dartmouth community.
Now comes the creepy bit, which is a possible link between the Dartmouth murders and Virginia Tech. Both took place on a Holocaust memorial day.
The fact that the deaths occurred on the day set in Germany for remembering the Holocaust has been suggested by the media to be of no coincidence.
Both born in Germany, the Zantops, though not Jewish, spoke very publicly about their feelings about the Holocaust. Audrey McCollum, a psychotherapist and a neighbor of the Zantops, says the couple's political activism was fueled by their "shame, guilt, fury, and horror" about Nazi atrocities. ABC's "Prime Time Live" reported that literature about the Third Reich, white supremacy, and Holocaust revisionism was found in Tulloch's bedroom.
Some people here on FR said that there were neo-nazi symbols on Chu’s stuff as well. There might be something going on that we are not aware of.
Finally, the Dartmouth murders were accomplished with knives. They are a good argument that gun control is not an effective measure in itself, as there are lots of weapons, many of which cannot be banned. If an energetic young psycho comes at you with a knife, you have probably had it, regardless of gun laws.
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