A meditation on an individual right that used to be treasured by the political left at least as much as the political right.
Of course, the Second Amendment doesn't only protect an individual right: it also protects the right to organize as militia. That may be the part we're missing in this discussion, both as applies to resisting armed tyrannical units -- the Waffen SS were a paramilitary, not a military force -- and as applies to a more coherent defense against active shooters. The citizen as officer of the state should be armed, trained, but also integrated as a potential actor into the official planning for responses. Much can be done by teaching citizens not only how to use a firearm to defend themselves and their immediate space, but how to link up and work together in the face of a common threat.
The political Left, heh. That would be the French Revolution and we know how that Equality Rights turned out, don't we.
ReplyDeleteThe citizen as officer of the state should be armed, trained, but also integrated as a potential actor into the official planning for responses.
ReplyDeleteA fundamental issue with being integrated into the system is CAIR and other Muslim saboteurs controlling FBI training processes. Which means, if your information is in the government databases, it will be sent directly to the terrorists.
Oh wait, never mind, they already did that, forget what I said.
To imagine that the Jewish people, spread across the continent, divided by language, religion and ideology, could have made a serious dent and survive in the millions until the conventional armies came to save the day is lunacy.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that imagination have to do with stopping the Holocaust...
Dying in battle and preventing the capture of the women and children, would also have stopped the Holocaust. Victory is not the same as dying on your own terms, though. But there would be few Jews left to kill if they all got killed on the battlefield, neh.
Victory is not always in the cards. Sometimes it just has to burn all the way down. And in that sense, that's another way to stop the Holocaust than merely by waiting for somebody to "win".