We are told by liberals that we have no need for personal weapons because the police will protect us from violent criminals. We all know, without citing the endless litany, that the reality is that the police are most likely to arrive long after the perpetrators have fled, the police officers’ primary usefulness being to summon the ambulances and interview the still-living victims. Look at this most recent example of public violence claiming multiple lives in Colorado. The police chief is on air proudly proclaiming that his officers were on site within one minute. Well, that’s well and good except for what transpired prior to that minute.
His officers weren’t there to shoot down this assassin the moment he opened fire on this collective group of victims, who were innocently and conveniently awaiting their victimhood.
His officers weren’t there until the killer had completed his murderous slaughter and exited the slaughterhouse through the rear door. A minute? When a madman is firing into a helpless crowd with high-powered, automatic weapons, lives are literally measured in seconds and the one minute response time the chief is so proud of becomes a lifetime for those being targeted.
So what is my point? Am I critical of the Aurora Police Department response? Hell no. What drives me to distraction is that no single individual in that theater was armed and responded to the criminally murderous force with rounds righteously delivered upon the body of the killer from any, any, member of the audience. One armed citizen could have made all the difference here. Yeah, the perp was armored up; so what? A full magazine of 9mm dumped into his armored-up figure would have been a series of hammer blows that most certainly would have altered his murderous course. Imagine yourself on the receiving end of a series of smacks from baseball bat delivered by a large and muscular fellow. That’s what being hit by 9mm rounds at close quarters is like. It’s a game changer and, yes, it could have changed this deranged asshole’s game.
So what’s my point? An armed citizenry, that’s what. Had any one individual in that first few rows of victims had a side-arm that he/she pulled and put into immediate action, even blindly firing a full magazine without aiming, he might well have saved the day and who knows how many lives. He might not have killed the killer but he damned sure would have distracted his aim away from the innocents.
The true American tragedy here is that so many lost their lives because no citizen had the foresight to come to that theater armed and ready to protect himself, his family and his fellow citizens, and yes, the American way of life. We are not a cowering people as our history shows, yet we are now in the thrall of a cowering culture and government that kneels to despots and invites violence upon its citizenry. It is not too much of a stretch to equate America to that theater audience in Aurora: helpless from horrific disaster, yet with our federal government but minutes away when seconds count.
As the Democrats keep telling us, “We don’t need no stinking guns.”