"Tragedy Averted"

Red State Blue ^ | April 20th 2007 | David Aronin

[DIM1]

And it is attitudes such as those expressed above - and as adhered to by persons possessing less intellectual integrity, moral courage, and, simple curiosity, as that evinced by Dr. Kohn and her research partner, that have much to do with the reasons why incidents such as those at VA Tech are unmitigated by the intervention of armed and trained civilians more frequently than they are.

There is a word for the combination of seemingly invincible ignorance and arrogance of the kind described above - attitudes held and maintained in the face of all evidence-to-the-contrary, and as often as not accompanied by a derisive distain for all opposing opinions and those who hold them. And it is a term employed with carefree abandon by many of those who adhere most tenaciously to the ideology of gun-control - and applied liberally to those who question their positions or act contrary to the tenets of that faith. And do so in spite of fervent protestations made as to the primacy of "diversity" in all facets of life. That term is "bigotry," and those who act in accords with it are
"bigots."
And are such every bit as much as the hooded night-riders who terrorised and Blacks in the segregated South - and elsewhere. And yes, bigotry and bigots can and do sometimes kill. The shootings at Virginia Tech showed that. Once again

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[piytar]

Actually, the term I was thinking of was “cognitive dissonance.” Then again, they (CD and bigotry) usually go hand-in-hand, so it’s not a big deal...