Army of Dog

When Seung-Hui Cho went into that building and began shooting, he opened what may well be one of the darkest chapters in modern American collegiate history. The one-year anniversary of the event is being used by gun-control advocates to try to make us all defenseless, per their usual position. According to the Dallas Morning News, they are using a bunch of useful idiot college students to protest a proposed law that would allow students and faculty who hold concealed carry permits to carry their guns on campus.

Students gathered Wednesday in front of Dallas City Hall on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings to remember those who died and to protest legislation that would allow guns in schools.

For each one of the students and teachers who died in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, 32 students remembered the victims by lying on the ground. As the name of each victim was read, a bell tolled.

A total of about 100 elementary, high school and college students gathered for the event.

The event was echoed in other cities as more than 80 communities and colleges planned similar protests about guns on campus, said the North Texas Brady Campaign, which describes itself as a group that works to prevent gun violence.

Let’s see, meaningless gesture designed to gain attention? Check. Blatant exploitation of children far too young to understand the issue they’re being asked to protest? Check. Dishonest attempt to connect a policy position with a monopoly on the desire to stop something that everyone agrees is bad? Check. Looks like we have all of the core ingredients of a leftist exercise in ghoulish self-aggrandizement.

We are, of course, treated to the usual breathtaking logic of gun-control advocates.

“We at El Centro (College) say it’s time to do more to stop gun violence, especially in our schools,” said student president Ashley Holmes in a news release. “School is not a place for guns. We have campus police and Dallas police available for our protection,” she later said at the event.

That must have been the problem at Virginia Tech, they didn’t have campus or local police available to intervene. What’s that? They did have campus police and it was thirty minutes into the shootings before they showed up and another five minutes before they made their way in the building and up to the floor where they found the gunman dead?

The stupidity continues.

Some Spruce High School student council members from Dallas who joined the crowd said they were worried that states were considering laws that would allow weapons at schools.

“It’s important that we are here together to stop the law from passing,” said Sanjuanita Hernandez, 18. “There is already enough violence happening, we don’t need more.”

And there we have the crux of the issue. The point upon which leftist gun-control advocates and sane people will never seem to find common ground. In the world of lefties taking guns away from law-abiding citizens who carry them for self defense will keep criminals and psychopaths from using guns to kill innocent people. Just how in the hell that happens no one seems to know. They just believe it and it doesn’t matter if banning guns makes you more, less, or equally safe, because as long as they can feel better about the situation, actual results are meaningless.

In the hopes that some of the people who hold these types of positions on the gun issue are actually open to logic, let me say this. When a criminal decides to attack you, whether it’s with a gun, a knife, or their bare hands, the only way a police officer will be able to help you is if he happens to be standing nearby when the attack happens. Otherwise, the only real chance that most people have to avoid serious harm is dumb luck.

There are a number of people who are not willing to place their own fate or that of their loved ones in the hands of fortune. Those people will choose to be armed with a gun. Most of them will choose to learn everything they can to use that gun safely and effectively in a life-or-death situation. Many of them will be willing to put themselves in harm’s way to protect you in the event of an attack. In short, they are ready, willing, and able to meet the kind of threats we hear about on the news every day. Instead of attempting to deny them their choice, why not be thankful for them and pray that one of them is nearby if, God forbid, the day ever comes that you need them.