JPFO ALERT: Don't Give an Inch!

JPFO ALERT: Don't Give an Inch!
Date: Apr 17, 2007 1:10 PM
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

April 17, 2007

JPFO ALERT: Don't Give an Inch!

Everyone has heard about yesterday's tragic mass
shooting on the Virginia Tech Campus that left 33 dead,
including the gunman. Our deepest condolences go out to the
families of those victims.

As can be expected, gun-prohibitionists are crawling out of
the woodwork to lay the blame squarely on the availability
of firearms. But how can they?

Virginia law states that holders of concealed carry permits
are allowed to carry on university campuses (
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/80510 ). In
the name of "safety", certain persons lobbied successfully
to prevent the carrying of firearms on Virginia Tech's
campus. Yesterday's massacre was the direct result of that
lobbying.

Did the rules forbidding the carrying of firearms prevent
Seung Hui Cho's senseless slaughter? Obviously not. In
fact, the rules encouraged his rampage because law-
abiding citizens were unable to prevent Cho from completing
his butchery.

The blood of those 32 innocents is on the hands of those
who lobbied for victim disarmament, and on the hands of the
president of the university who acquiesed to their short-
sighted demands. Their hoplophobia did nothing but ensure
that larger numbers of individuals died at the hands of a
psychotic.

Speaking of hoplophobia -- we watched with interest the
reporting of Nightline's Terry Moran on the slaying during
Monday night's special Nightline edition . He showed
classic signs of the mental health issues outlined in Dr.
Sarah Thompson's classic article, "Raging Against Self-
Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines the Anti-Gun Mentality" (
http://www.jpfo.org/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm ).

Despite logic and reason, other gun-prohibitionists will no
doubt callously use this incident to push their "gun
control" schemes, either out of irrational fear or a
desire for control. We must stand fast and refuse to give
in to their emotional rhetoric. "Gun control" would not
have prevented this terrible tragedy -- "gun control"
caused this tragedy.

Evil people find a way to kill. It's that simple.

For perspective, this degree of suicide-killing (or mass-
killing via car-bombs) happens about *three times a week in
Iraq.* Terror bombers kill in a big way in an attempt to
drive policy decisions. Even the U.S. military cannot stop
all the bombings in Iraq -- the people who perform them are
intent on making their statements via mass murder.
Likewise, the U.S. gov't won't be able to stop all of the
suicide killings here.

Just as we don't accept the terrorists' killings as policy
arguments, we should not let domestic terrorism events like
this shooting be treated as policy arguments.

The questions are: what can be done to detect the
potential perpetrators? what can be done defensively so
that perpetrators cannot do as much damage? VA Tech's
response was lousy: they did not take the kind of action
needed to respond to a multiple murder on campus when the
suspect is on the loose. Likewise, they had assured a
defense-free environment, so that the killer could not be
stopped by equal force.

VA Tech's ill-considered policies and responses do not
create reasons to disarm non-violent people as a national
policy -- yet that will be called for.

Now would be a good time to visit our store and pick up one
of our "All in Favor of Gun Control, Raise Your Right Hand"
posters or t-shirts (
http://shop.jpfo.org/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=78 ).
Don't let the hoplophobes use this incident as fodder for
your disarmament.

- The Liberty Crew




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