[Puzzleman]

Another good one from the good one.

[Lurker]

A few years back, a couple of alienated loser teens from a small Vermont town decided they were going to kill somebody, steal his ATM cards, and go to Australia. So they went to a remote house in the woods a couple of towns away, knocked on the door, and said their car had broken down. The guy thought their story smelled funny so he picked up his Glock and told 'em to get lost. So they concocted a better story, and pretended to be students doing an environmental survey. Unfortunately, the next old coot in the woods was sick of environmentalists and chased 'em away. Eventually they figured they could spend months knocking on doors in rural Vermont and New Hampshire and seeing nothing for their pains but cranky guys in plaid leveling both barrels through the screen door. So even these idiots worked it out: Where's the nearest place around here where you're most likely to encounter gullible defenseless types who have foresworn all means of resistance? Answer: Dartmouth College. So they drove over the Connecticut River, rang the doorbell, and brutally murdered a couple of well-meaning liberal professors.

Nobody but nobody does it like Steyn.

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[syriacus]

I wish there were more columnists like Steyn. Thanks for posting this column.

[goldstategop]

Liberals have successfully created a society or rather, a sub-culture that can't defend itself from danger. Danger overwhelms it. And in the larger world, the attitude has real world consequences: liberals want to run away from a war instead of fighting to finish it. Liberalism has exalted passivity, weakness and cowardice as its highest principles. So what happened last Monday at at VA Tech was all too predictable. Liberals behaving according to their own code and understanding of the world - that took a great many of their lives.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[jim35]

He’s like a breath of fresh air.

[beaversmom]

[livius]

To promote vulnerability as a moral virtue is not merely foolish.

Excellent summary - that's really what liberalism does, it makes a moral virtue out of vulnerability and the lack of will to defend oneself or others. Leave it to Steyn to come up with the right phrase!

[nathanbedford]

From pre-K to Postgraduate studies the evidence is daily mounting that our educational establishment has utterly abandoned education for indoctrination.

I used to advocate that vouchers were the only antidote for this constipation in the pre-college educational scene, but there is a degree of freedom of choice in the selection of a university and it seems to be ineffective against the institutionalized cultural Marxism of the campus.

There might be an analogy to failing newspapers where leftists would rather sink the ship than steer it toward the right. Has MSNBC not understood why Fox news is making so much more money? Not even bankruptcy can pry these liberals away from their cherished biases. How much less can we expect it in the cloistered academy?

[beaversmom]

Mark Steyn on Cavuto’s show after the killings at VT.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YhMpMdsSC9I&mode=related&search=

[johnny7]

“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.”

Those reasons only apply for the suckers... the power behind the movement is drawn from Marxist socialists who hold positions of power throughout our society.

[Leisler]

IT IS DONE ON PURPOSE!

The left, the Communists, the government want and need for people to be infants. To not to be able to think, and more importantly, act by themselves. They want the mass of citizens, + or -, to be muddled headed, confused victims. They want, after twenty years of leftist indoctri-education for you to FEEL that there is an elite of warm, caring, loving people who will always be like gods on earth and are called liberals, and by and large, they work in Government. They don't need everybody to be patterned this way, just a significant amount to control. Everybody else can suck off and sit the f down, as far as they care.

Victimize, infantilize, debt, fear, fashion, guilt these are some of their tools on you.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Steyn’s unique ability can be found by word 7 of this piece. Everyone else calls the happenings in Blacksburg, VA this week a “tragedy”, just like they did on 9/11. He calls it what it is, a “massacre”.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[Toskrin]

Instead, the administration has created a "Gun-Free School Zone." Or, to be more accurate, they've created a sign that says "Gun-Free School Zone."

[theBuckwheat]

When we ban all manner of self-defense, we are forced to look to collective defense. In reference to the book, Dial 911 and Die, such defense only works on its schedule, with the facilities it chooses to employ and on the timetable it chooses to employ them.

Sometimes this is helpful and protective. A lot of times it is not. Indeed it cannot be, for another part of government, the courts, have repeatedly ruled that the public security force we employ through government (and the reason that we forbid people from taking security measures into their own hands) *does not have any duty* to protect a specific person. This means that police cannot be sued if they fail to protect you. Clear thinking people know what this means. Dial 911 and die. Where I live, in a semi-rural area. I expect to be on my own for at least 15 long minutes if I ever have to dial 911.

Yet, we claim to be the “land of the free, and the home of the brave”. These increasingly hollow words are forbidden to ring true any longer by risk averse people whose ideology leads them to insist that it is better for innocents to die than for liberties they disagree with to be permitted.

One of those liberties was having the means to effect self defense.

As the bits and pieces that the entire mess with Cho falls squarely in the lap of the left and of fans of Big and Bigger government, from the university administration that refused to deal with him properly, to the court system that failed to report his mental status properly, the calls to “solve” his mass murder through more gun control laws are becoming fewer and far less shrill. By creating a “gun free” zone on campus, liberals also created a “victim rich zone”, their own “killing field”, up on the second floor of Norris Hall

With this news, it becomes almost impossible for the left to blame an inert piece of plastic and metal for this horrible crime, but that will not stop some from pressing on to create their utopia of peace. The only consolation has been that there appear to be fewer on the left still pounding those drums than there were a few days ago.

[Pokey78]

h2>Steyn ping!</h2>

[Fury]

I wanted to note an interesting exchange with Mr. Office Liberal this week.

When the subject of self-defense and carrying a concealed weapon came up, Mr. Lib stated that those who do so are “paranoid”. He believes that ALL handguns should be banned - period. His answer to home security - “lock your doors and you’ll be fine”.

I said “so what happens when someone breaks a window to get in? Then what?” He responded “Call 911”.

Of course, this is the same guy who has stated that the police have no obligation to offer ‘round-the-clock’ protection (a point I don’t disagree with).

what Mr. Lib stated is not far off the mark what I’ve heard some other lib-leaning folks state this week where I work.

[Marauder]

What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.

I keep my handguns chained and padlocked to prevent their escaping and wreaking havoc upon unsuspecting victims./s

[nctexan]

"they've created a sign that says "Gun-Free School Zone."

Well... I Declare the World a Hate-Free Zone!

Wow, I feel so much better now!

[redgolum]

Great article.
I grew up in an area where late night intruders were met with a 12 gauge and a question. We had few gun crimes. Now in this “safe zone” of Davenport IA, where the local cops are very against gun owners, there are rolling gun fights and complaints that there isn’t enough midnight basketball to keep the kids occupied.

[TomSmedley]

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?