Self-defense, as the founders intended and provided for through the 2nd amendment, which, in my way of thinking is nothing more than our unalienable right to self-defense, is the answer to these tragedies and countless others. Here, it proved its mettle in a dramtic way, and in the exact manner intended IMHO...a God-fearing, faithful, responsible American citizen couragously standing against murder and tyranny...because such killers are nothing but ruthless tyrants at heart, imposing their murderous will on innocents at the point of a gun or sword.
This incident, the mall in Utah, the school back in Kentucky several years ago. Each case shows that arming the people themselves who are there when these heinious acts go down, is the way to arrest and stop the bloodshed and save lives. This policy should be adopted at every mall, school, church, synagogue...and HOME in America IMHO.
I can add but one thing to your wonderful and spot on comments Joanie, and the summation you made...
The Second Amendment proved its value this weekend when a legally armed, courageous, cool-headed, and God-fearing, American citizen saved the lives of many of her countrymen.
God preserve the Second Amendment. And God bless Jeanne Assam.
This interview needs to be played over and over...it should be required reading in every civis class across this nation, and every self-defense course. Again, thank God this coragous and faithful woman was put in place there by God to do His will, preserve lives, and teach us the manner in which we, as a people, should face these dangers.
This interview needs to be played over and over...it should be required reading in every civics class across this nation, and every self-defense course.
Therein lies the worst kind of negligence perpetrated by the mainstream media, and our public 'education' system.
Our textbooks and our television screens are filled with fabricated ‘heroes’ – sports figures and entertainers who are nothing more than glorified criminals, news stories that ignore the Jeanne Assams, and focus on the Brittney Spears, of the world, and history textbooks that dedicate half a page (if that) of information to the life Robert E. Lee and ten times as much space and time to Madonna and Marilyn Monroe.
Partly as a result of that grotesque media and education ‘oversight’, we live in a time when many of our young people -- especially, but not only, in our inner cities -- are lacking in direction and commitment to anything eternally meaningful.
Their hearing or seeing the particulars of Assam's story on television or radio, or reading about it in a future textbook or other classroom assignment, might provide them a glimmer of what life is all about, and a epiphany-type recognition of the meaning of faith, personal character, and the fabric from which a genuine, meaningful role-model 'legacy' is crafted, even if unintentionally.
But Assam's heroism is destined to be virtually ignored by those unelected tyrants who have the power to use it for honest, and positive, societal good.
Why will her story be ignored? Because it involved the powerful and entirely legal use by a citizen of her Second Amendment rights, and because, after doing so, she stood as a faithful and powerful witness to the effect that the Lord's goodness and grace can have in a life that has been turned over to Him.
What a powerful service to our republic, and to those of our young people who are directionless, the mainstream media and the public education system could perform if they functioned as they were intended, rather than as an arm of the leftwing propaganda machine.
~ joanie