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Quick, let's Over-React! - 04/20/2007 6:35 PM Quick! Let’s ban a gun. There is absolutely no doubt that if we had banned all guns, nobody would have died at Virginia Tech. Clearly, if guns had been banned, nobody would have been harmed. The mass murderer would have thought to himself, “Gosh, if guns were legal, I would murder 32 people, but since they are not legal, I’ll simply work out my emotions in a healthful way.” He would not use a Molotov cocktail. He would not consider driving his 1968 Buick Wildcat into a crowd. He would simply “get over it” and move on to be a constructive member of society. Recently my wife bought some Claritin. It was behind the drug counter. She had to sign a form indicating that she was not going to make illegal drugs. I have no doubt that someone who runs a meth lab would think to themselves, “Well, I wanted to turn this Claritin into Meth, but I just feel uncomfortable lying on this form that says I won’t make Meth. I guess I’ll just go worship Jesus and give up this whole life of illegal drugs.” Yes, if we just banned guns, signed more forms, and eliminated most of our freedoms, we’d all be safe and sound. Hey, come on, this isn’t very complicated. “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”. This is an old expression, however, can it be more accurate? We live in a free society. This means we have inherent risks. Unless you enjoy the body cavity search at the airport, and want it before you enter a public forum, you had better get used to the idea that on occasion, terrible things will happen. We can prevent them from happening 99.999% of the time, if we’re willing to live without freedoms. But if you want freedoms, you’ll have to be satisfied with eliminating situations like this from happening 99.99% of the time. Granted, you’ll probably have to toss in a little racial profiling in. You may need to be politically incorrect on occasion. You may need to use your common sense – no matter how evil society says it is to do so. If you have not already done so, you might want to take this quiz: Click here to take the quiz What happened in Virginia Tech was a nightmare, but in a free society, this sort of thing can happen. Yes, there may have been errors made in notification, we should learn from it and try to do better next time, but let’s not forget that we, as American’s are not very forgiving of inconveniences. A few years ago President Bush was criticized for the cancellation of many flights based on some information received. Naturally, nothing terrible happened, so Bush was an alarmist and blamed for politicizing safety. Now, if he had not been involved in cancelling those flights, and something happened, he’d have been blamed for not taking appropriate action. What’s the right answer? Not over reacting, that’s the right answer. Let’s look at the facts, and see if there is something we could reasonably do to avoid such a crisis in the future, if so, let’s do it. If not, let’s lament the pain of living in a free society, and move on. kcuhC, chuck@kcuhc.com |