Self Defense is a Civil Right.

After the Aurora shooting,

Another chance for

The Materialists to flaunt their

Superior wisdom.

After the Aurora shooting the usual suspects stood up again and tried to demean the American people and their freedoms.

 “We are an easily frightened people and it is easy to manipulate us with fear. What are we so afraid of that we need to have 300 million guns in our homes? Who do we think is going to hurt us? Maybe we should take better care of each other.” --- Michael Moore at the Huffington Post. (Think maybe he has an armed body guard or four?)

“The time has come for our nation to face the National Rifle Association and its bullying tactics. There is no way that our forefathers envisioned twelve innocent people lying dead on the floor of a movie theater when they wrote the Second Amendment.” --- Russell Simmons at the same stand. (This may be the first time Russell has said anything close to positive about the founders.)

“There’s a proclivity to aggression [in men] that’s biological, but it takes a social trigger to engage it,” says William Pollack, the director of the Centers for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital in Boston and a psychology professor at Harvard Medical School. “We socialize healthy, normal boys to ‘stand on their own two feet’ for fear that otherwise they won’t be real boys,” says Pollack, whose New York Times bestseller, Real Boys, dissects the inner emotional lives of young men. “They’re taught not to tell anyone when they feel pain, because they should be stoic, and they certainly shouldn’t cry.” As a result, Pollack says, men have a preconditioned level of tolerance for violence that makes it easier for them to act on it without remorse.” --- This bit of folk wisdom is from Lizzie Crocker at The Daily Beast, and no I don’t know who she is either. (As for remorse Mr. Holmes’ lawyer seems to have trained him in the use of remorse face on the stand.)

I could go on and on ad nauseum but you get the drift; the cause of mass murder is everywhere but in the heart of the murderer. James Holmes spent many hours in research and study to find and purchase his weapons and armor. He spent more hours in the design of his booby traps and gas bombs. He probably spent time getting his reloading technics as close to perfect as he could without a range to practice on, but it’s the fault of the NRA for defending the Second Amendment? I don’t think so.

But this idea that the average American doesn’t need to take care of his own defense is so prevalent that is has become the standard fare. Yet we all know that the police are not libel if they get to your home after you and yours are raped and murdered. Even some conservatives believe that self-defense is beneath them, that “There are just too many guns out there.” Yet if the many thousands of times per year that a firearm is used in home defense were published in the MSM the idea that the country is awash in guns would fade away.

So why am I harping on the issue of self-defense rather than the carnage in front of our faces? Because gun control is a liberty issue, it gives the government the positive right to protect you while taking away the negative right (not of government origin) of self-defense. There is no way that Mr. Holmes could have been picked from a crowd as a mass murderer before his action. A comic book nerd maybe, but are we to shut down Comic-Con on this type of evidence? And at this point he is still innocent till proven guilty by a jury of his peers, that’s you and me folks.

What does it look like when a nations citizens are disarmed? We can look at two riots, The “Hoody Riots” last year in Great Britain as compared to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992. After many years of agitation, starting with the reaction to the mass murder at Hugerford in which the murderer carried, and used, a semi auto rifle, the Home Office began a regimen of gun-control measures. As you know Great Britain has no written Constitution, therefore no Second Amendment. This is even though the common law assumed for centuries that a citizen had the right to defend himself against bodily harm. As time progressed the government steadily widened the scope of the controls till by 2006 even air pistols were illegal. And the use of a firearm in your own defense is to face a jail sentence.

We were all witnesses to the “Hoody Riots” last summer in which young people attacked and trashed stores across the width and breadth of the country. They often stole electronics just to smash them in the street. When questioned by local reporters they said, “We’re just having great fun!” The police ran from pillar to post with no ability to protect private property, which they still have in Britain. The riots went on from August 7 to August 15, when they finally burned themselves out. As for the shop owners, they had no means of effective defense, and took their lumps.

After the verdict came in in the Rodney King trail rioters went nuts in LA. Even though the National Guard was eventually called in to quell the violence, it went on from April 29 to May 4. The difference is in the reaction of the shop owners of Korea town. The organized self-defense units and protected their property with a mix of rifles and shotguns, keeping damage to a minimum. As a matter of fact the most damage was in the minority communities, so much for painting “Black Owned” on your store front.

So what do I mean by materialism. It is the concept that some object or instrumentality will cause a person to react in some specific way. Thus Mr. Holmes didn’t kill those people, his guns did. It didn’t work in Marxism and it doesn’t work in this case.

JimG33