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The trillion dollar central intelligence could not stop 19 barely literate Arabs from pulling off one of the great criminal conspiracies of all time, and yet there was not one high level resignation. The government has left its people unarmed and ill-prepared for an invasion that allegedly necessitated and justified its existence, but its clear the barbarians have already entered the gates.

Worse, the same 'conservatives' who got us into this mess in the Middle East, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rummy, Cheney, Baker, Bush, Sr., refused to acknowledge that a government policy of interventionism abroad cannot coexist with a disarmed public, and yet the ruling party is still in power, claiming no responsibly for the situation we have found ourselves in.

LaPierre is on the right track, but he must complete the thought. The same teachers and jocks who ran for their lives in the halls of Columbine rather than tackle two scrawny teenagers wielding cumbersome shotguns, were on the airplanes hoping it was just a 'hijacking.' But there is hope, as seen on Flight 93, with a new set of names to be added to the lexicon of heroes.

Conservatives had and still have an opportunity to tap into this raw emotion that longs for a culture that did not wait for the government to do something a thousand miles away in a the Middle East, but heralded the individual bravery and courage of the 'common man' be it on the frontier in the Wild West or on an airplane over Pennsylvania. The barbarians had not counted on this.

The gun culture introduced me to one of the greatest of historical observations: the Nazi victims being led to their death by guards with unloaded weapons (open bolts.) After years of being browbeaten and disarmed by the government, they lacked the will to fight back.