I’ve read that schools in Israel are no longer targets of terrorists. Isn’t that remarkable? Palestinian terrorists will strike markets and pizza joints in Israel, but not schools. Why?

Because schools in Israel now have armories, complete with a fine assortment of military-style weapons! And the teachers are all trained on how to use them.

History teaches us, over and over again, that both individual criminals and criminal governments are loathe to attack a victim who is capable of putting up a defense. Hitler never attacked little Switzerland, even though I’m sure he could have eventually defeated the Swiss, at great cost. Why would the attack have been so costly? Because all adult Swiss males are members of the militia, and keep fully automatic weapons in their homes.

The Swiss also have one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. It just might be that would-be violent criminals in Switzerland think twice before doing a home-invasion where the intended victim has automatic weapons.

We need to follow the example of the Israelis and the Swiss. A better name for Gun Control is Victim Disarmament.

This phrase and other similar ones are being used in articles and blogs and on the air waves almost everywhere these days, but there are people, a whole culture, a whole nation, at least what’s left of it, who take offense to the lack of historical awareness such comments reveal. Here is a very clear statement of their perspective:

‘A Native Perspective on Virginia Tech Headlines‘ By Kat Teraji

http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=212045

Taking One Day at a Time

Taking One Day at a Time

Does Geyser mean to say we don’t expect to be attacked? After VT and Columbine?

If only one out of ten American teachers wants to be trained in the use of weapons, fine. That’s more than enough. The other ninety percent who don’t understand that sometimes to you have to use force in self-defense, don’t have to be trained if they don’t want to.

Incidentally, as recently as the 1960′s, it was not unusual for high school students in New York City to carry rifles, on the subway, to school, where they took part in after-school target-shooting competitions. I don’t know of a single case of these guns being used to commit crimes.

Regarding bullet control, Ardie says ready made bullets should only be sold to law enforcement and the military. Apparently, these classes of people are somehow endowed with a sense of virtue and morality not possessed by the rest of us. I guess once you get a job with the government, you are somehow miraculously transformed into an upstanding, virtuous human being.

I think Waco, Ruby Ridge, Iraq, the Nazis, and the communists just might give a thoughtful person a pause in considering this premise that government operatives are more virtuous than the rest of us.