Forwarded with permission -----------Begin forwarded message----------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:15:34 -0700 To: undisclosed recipients <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A few random thoughts I posted the following to another list I'm on, and the responses made me think you might like to read it, also. ~Olga I just ran across the following quotation, and thought it rather apt. "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it." --Thomas Paine It has been my experience that the victim- disarmament crowd are largely merely ignorant. Since the facts and statistics are all on our side, that's inevitable. In addition to being ignorant, many of them are also too intellectually lazy to adequately research the subject, and/or so emotionally insecure that they would rather cling to a warm and fuzzy false notion than face the truth. This is hardly unique to the gun banners: remember the contemporaries of Renaissance physician William Harvey who rejected his notion of blood circulation, declaring they would rather "err with Galen than be right with Harvey." They paid for their arrogance with the lives of many whom they could have helped with this knowledge, just as the anti- gun crowd has the blood of untold helpless victims on their collective hands. However, arrogance, emotional immaturity and ignorance are not the only factors involved, although admittedly they are extant in the preponderance of anti- gun types. We spend a good deal of time, trouble and money to educate these people, often to little or no avail. Why? They would rather be dictated to, as they either cannot or do not want to reason, and it's more "comfortable" where they are. This brings us to the next logical step: who is dictating to these people, and why? To whom is the private possession of firearms by law- abiding citizens a threat? Obviously, only to criminals, as a solid citizen is not about to start using his neighbors for target practice. It logically follows that anyone in a position of power, be it elective, appointive or earned (as in business) who opposes an armed citizenry is, ipso facto, a criminal in thought at least, and probably in deed as well. It seems to me as if, rather than dedicating all of our resources to educating those who are emotionally reluctant to open their eyes, we should devote at least some of our attention to delving into the backgrounds of the victim- disarmament people. I rather suspect some interesting facts might emerge: even more interesting than the facts that Diane Feinstein, Carl Rowan and Hillary Clinton are known to carry concealed (two of the three illegally), that Rosie O'Donnell's bodyguard is armed, and that one of the heads of the Million Misguided Mothers is not only the owner of a TEC-9 submachine gun as well as other armament, but also shot a young man (who will show up in those slanted gun violence statistics about "children") whom she believed, probably incorrectly, killed her son. Those are mere peccadilloes, I believe, compared to the dirty laundry on the skeletons in the gun banner's closets. If the truth were known about these people, that they are NOT the warm, fuzzy, friendly, helpful folk they attempt to appear to be, I can only see where it would help our cause, and possibly awaken the merely ignorant, if not the determinedly ignorant. Admittedly, I can't see this working on a national level, as the disgrace we have in the White House shows. And it's common knowledge that Al Gore is a criminal, yet he runs for President with impunity. I'm thinking a little more locally. If people knew that the seemingly benign mayor of their town who supports gun confiscation has a record of, say, child molestation, that the school board member who is vociferously anti- gun has a son who's a burglar, that the local police chief who sonorously declares that the police can protect you is a wife- beater, etc. might it not help people to make the connection as to *why* they don't want guns in private hands? What do you all think? ~Olga ------------End Forwarded Message----------- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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