A credibility issue mistaken as a safety issue.
As most of my readers know, I do not write for gun owners, but specifically for the Non-gun owners. What do 80 million gun owners know that non-gun owners don’t know? Primarily, that self-defense is not an opinion of any one group, it is a life skill for all - a totally non-partisan survival skill. It is also the authority of the citizen over the objections of administrators who have taken an oath to serve the very people they vex. It is this citizen authority which is deliberately ignored by officials on their political campus say-so which they back by force.
Let me say this again: Though a household may plan for root canal, unemployment, illness or car accident – how the household will meet and even survive criminal violence is the most neglected area of household management. This, of course, extends to family members away from home, as in workplace or school campus. You do not check your citizen authority at the Admissions Office or Human Resources.
When will they learn? Workplace or campus bans of personal weapons gives the shooter an enormous tactical striking advantage, and and bans act to the detriment of the students and workers this way.
We will never stop the next school shooter – or any school or workplace shooters – by psychoanalyzing or profiling them, giving them time and opportunity, but by better preparing the target to respond immediately. Disarming students means waiting for someone to arrive. It means waiting for someone else to protect you or get kicked out of school. All the profiling is nothing more than a stalling tactic to avoid the obvious: arming students and workers as they choose in order that they operate on their citizen authority when facing grave danger in the absence of first responders.
Why a policy so adverse to the interests of the student? Because Citizens play a vital role in crime control, and excluding citizens from the process is dangerous on so many levels. It keeps crisis alive. Personal Independence (independence in authority on various levels) discredits the very need for such disarming, controlling policies, and dissolves the Dependency officials love so much. This compelled Dependency on others to the detriment of student safety is very resentful, and this is the source of the indignation of even non-students who have an interest in such policies.
Disarming willing students is to force all to choose between felony or funeral. Virginia Tech chose funeral for 32 of its students. Delaware State is a late arrival. Other shootings have occured within the last few days purely on the shoter’s knowledge that his target is a Victim Disarmament Zone. Citizen Authority prevails, or it should. Why does a University hide this? Why quarrel with constituents? Why punish legal self-defense with expulsion? Why ocnsult other bureaucrats and stack the deck of input?
To hide the secret that citizen authority not only prevails, but rather capably impeaches the very need for such dangerous anti-violence policies.
Do you understand now how officials cannot teach until they learn? It’s a credibility issue represented as a safety issue to hide who is really in Authority: Citizens, and that includes students and visitors. ALL GUN CONTROL OBFUSCATES CITIZEN AUTHORITY TO ACT. It punishes it, too.
Campuses have to learn that they are in charge only so far as the people authorize them - this means that student [citizen] authority trumps that of the servants who serve us. Recast, repeal or rewrite that delegated authority and you begin to solve your campus shooter problem.
Gun control and gun bans affect non-gun owners when all constituents begin to fear their public servants more than they fear murderous criminals. The student is then held hostage by both. Very American. We’re all held hostage this way.
Isn’t this what it comes down to? Felony or funeral (or expulsion)?
The education is that our Independence and individual authority can protect students better than Administrators can. Criminals fear armed citizens more than they fear police.
Remember that if you think the cost of a good education is expensive, try the cost of ignorance.
It is paid for in lives.
It’s time for officials to be much more faithful to the students and to their oath — even if it has to be litigated.
It would be good for the country.
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John Longenecker is President and CEO of the Good For The Country Foundation, a patriotic education non-profit at www.GoodForTheCountry.org
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