There’s more finger pointing going on each day. As the shock of the event wanes and more people begin re-entry back to the real world, human nature is taking over causing some to begin blaming anything and everything under the sun for what happened.
The first thing I would recommend anyone do is walk into the bathroom and take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror before turning a finger on someone or something else. That’s not likely to happen because Americans have come to not take responsibility for anything they do.
There’s one aspect of the shootings that we should never forget and that they were carried out by a deranged person. Nothing short of being institutionalized, which is where Cho Seung-Hui belonged, would have stopped what happened.
But that is not stopping the opportunist from using the event to further their agendas. This is America and so that is what will happen. People who hate guns will cry for more restrictions. Those who believe in and understand the necessity of the Second Amendment will insist that people have a right to defend themselves.
Personally, I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe that when it was written it was known then that two things existed. One was that the people had to be guaranteed that they would forever be given the power to insure that no government entity would force the people into a repressive life of nothing more than slavery. They knew then it happened, they believed it could happen in the future and they understood total freedom and what it meant.
Secondly, the founders believed that as human beings we have a God-given right to defend ourselves – yes, that means to defend ourselves from lunatics like Cho Seung-Hui.
The Second Amendment wasn’t intended to be a document that would give Americans that right only part of the time, while meeting government’s qualifications and exempting such from specified areas. What then is the point? Where is the guarantee? Where is my choice? Do deranged psychopaths discriminate locales in which to carry out their sickening deeds?
What I am most upset about is that not one of these victims ever had a choice to defend themselves. This is America. We are supposed to be a free country. Freedom means we can choose. It was their God-given right to be able to go to college and defend themselves from acts like this. They were never given a chance. Somebody else who thinks lunatics think rationally and that lawful, and sane people don’t, make laws that result in the needless deaths of innocents.
And so, what will these same people begin screaming for more of? Gun control. They want to control everything. They don’t think you are smart enough to chose for yourself. They want to convince you that had Virginia has strict gun laws this wouldn’t have happened.
We have to ask the question as to why, if the powers that be at the University, decided to go against the U.S. Constitution and the state of Virginia deciding not to overturn the University’s ruling to ban guns, did neither institution do anything to insure the safety of the students? They merely stripped citizens of their right.
It’s because they couldn’t have protected the students and they know it. They have an inadequate police force to deal with events like this and they know it. They are either unwilling or unable to do anything about a known lunatic on the campus and they know it.
They know all of this, yet they still felt compelled to prohibit over 20,000 students, faculty and employees from being able to do that one thing that insures our survival – to defend ourselves.
Take a long hard look in that mirror and ask yourself how much of the responsibility of what happened at Virginia Tech University falls in your lap long before you point a finger.
Tom Remington
