NOTE: The 2nd Amendment is SELF-incorporated to all government entities at every level. It is MORE ABSOLUTE than the 1st Amendment, or any of the others, because the wording forbids not only CONGRESS, but ANYONE from infringing on it. The 1st says “Congress shall make no law...”. The 2nd say “shall NOT be infringed!” Period! End of debate!
One lesson learned from Columbine is that the police cant wait until the SWAT team, all their equipment, and everything else arrives on the scene. The first four officers in place now go in using the diamond formation and search for the killer(s). Standing by outside while more die inside is a non starter now.
In addition to applying the first-aid of defensive firearms, we should also administer vaccination.
We can do this by vigorously and directly addressing schools where administrators tolerate or ignore, and thus foster, the unrelenting heaping of humiliation, degradation, and physical and psychological abuse on students who fail to conform to the prevailing “popular” norms.
Murderous rage in ordinary young men doesn’t come out of nowhere. Some kids eat a shotgun in order to escape the crushing degradation of acidic school cultures which they are required by law to endure. But as we all well know, not all of them decide to point the shotgun at themselves.
A good defense is laudable, but that’s usually addressing the symptom, not the disease.
For the record, and for anyone who has to respond to yet more gun-grabbing
because of Columbine:
The two murderers carried a total of four firearms.
Two were sawed-off shotguns, the making and possession of which have long
been felonies.
Only one of the four firearms qualified under the original “assault weapons”
ban.
The two murderers also carried 95 bombs, the making and possession of which
have long been felonies.
A popular line of reasoning is that if only the AWB had been in place, then
Columbine would not have happened. Such willful ignorance boggles my mind.
Never mind the bombs or the sawed off shotguns. The are not the threat. Only
ugly guns are the threat.
The world is a seething pile of dung. When you bring children into the world, you are opening up the immediate possibility that they will be slaughtered and there is nothing you can do about it. Don’t count on this country ever coming to its senses. Things will only ever get worse.
Billions of dollars are spent on fire alarms and sprinkler systems in schools, yet not one child has died in a school fire in decades in the US. Hundreds have been killed in school violence, yet most administrators and politicians just put their fingers in their ears and chant, “LALALA, I CAN”T HEAR YOU!!” whenever school violence is mentioned.
It's not that they don't grasp the concept; they don't care.
Their policies are aimed at preventing others from conducting the kind of self-defense that they know they are incapable of doing. What they fear isn't guns, but that someone else's courage will draw attention to their cowardice. In the gun grabber's mind, the courage of one only serves to highlight the cowardice of another. It's rather like the zero sum gain theory of economics that many of the same people embrace; the idea that if one person becomes wealthy, another must have become impoverished. The gun grabber would rather die cowering in a corner knowing that everyone else around them cowing rather than be saved by one brave individual who chooses to act. They would rather die than risk having their cowardice exposed for all the world to see.
Freud had it right: The fear of weapons is a sign of mental illness.