Now that looks like a ”Human Target” who wouldn’t emerge from Virginia Tech a professional victim hitting the Oprah circuit! [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at two human targets, one fictional, and asks why real ones should be required.
Also get a field report from American Trigger Sports Network, where humans are targeting.
Do you know any humans you can target the link to?
I know people who went to Tech, just as I know people who used to work in the World Trade Center, and I visited Tech once, and also the WTC and looked out at the city from the observation level in one of the towers.
ReplyDeleteThe Tech survivors and their relatives KIND OF get it that it could be anyone, any time, anywhere, but if mandatory helplessness is the answer, it's a really stupid question.
Peter Odighizuwa, the Appalachan School of Law murderer, wasn't stopped by a campus regulation or a state law, or a federal law, or an international law; two students with their own guns aimed them at him, and he dropped his pistol and his box of ammunition still containing about 40 rounds.
The Goddards and Samahas want us all to be that Tech professor, a Holocaust survivor, who, having no weapon, bought time by trying to hold the Tech classroom door shut and being shot multiple times while his students jumped out of the second-floor windows. He saved about a dozen lives before Cho finished him.
I long ago outgrew thinking that if closed my eyes and wished really hard, that things would change. I can empathize with those who want violence to go away, but cannot agree with those that would legislate the actions of the lawful and compliant to effect that end.
ReplyDeleteColonel Jeff Cooper expressed it well on several occasions:
"The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range."
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."
“The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.”
“The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.”
"Hoplophobia is a mental disturbance characterized by irrational aversion to weapons, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them."
Someone was robbed at gunpoint on campus at Harvard.
ReplyDeleteThat's like quadruple-illegal!!!
If I were an amoral, antisocial scumbag, would I choose to rob someone a) in a police station where everybody is armed and (sort of) trained, or b) in a park on a college campus full of liberal eggheads in the middle of a city of -- and state of -- gun-hating socialists in need of a rectal craniotomy?
Hmmm. Let me think.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/armed_robbery_r.html