Senator Dianne Feinstein said of personal guns, “Turn ‘em in, America,” a very unpatriotic command nobody has to obey because it was against the law. She might as well have urged Americans to purchase other Americans while it’s against the law to own another person in this country. As civil rights, both are absolute, and for good reason. Who in her right mind could urge Americans to surrender a civil right? Indeed, even just a little? Could any reason be good enough?
With all the school shootings recently, investigators, media and others need to be sure to include citizens in the critique and recovery process. Officials – armed officials, by the way  have a very bad record of freezing constituents out of the planning and recovery process.
Meanwhile, let us not forget that some campus administrators are getting it, as in South Carolina and Utah. Praise to you and your patriotic values in recognizing citizen authority. Praise. What do they know others refuse to hear? They know that citizen authority isn’t checked at the admissions office, and they know that it is wrong to fully understand individual citizen authority and to hide it from students or utterly defy that authority.
President Reagan said to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva Summit: “Mr. Gorbachev, let me tell you why it is we distrust you.” Washington, you are getting very much to look and act like Gorbachev.
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