Our responsibility to defend ourselves

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for September 3, 2025)

Last week, another mentally ill individual chose to be an evil loser and shot into a church full of children, killing two and injuring many more.

The usual anti-gun voices immediately blamed guns and all the gun owners who didn't commit murder. They never place blame on the evil loser because that doesn't fit the agenda. Dancing in the blood of innocents is their only play, and they are experts at it.

Even some people who are generally less anti-gun chimed in to suggest mentally ill people shouldn't be allowed to own weapons. "Allowed"? By whom, and by whose imaginary authority or precognitive ability?

Weapons are a natural human right, inherent in everyone, including those who are mentally ill. Every human alive has equal and identical rights; no one has the right to commit murder.

I oppose background checks to purchase firearms. They didn't work in this case; they don't work in any other case. No one has the right to decide what another is allowed to own.

Government is clearly prohibited by the Second Amendment from making up or enforcing any rules concerning weapons. Any. Yes, government employees choose to commit the crime of "gun control" all the time; a criminal conspiracy which needs to be called out and ended. A crime is any act which violates life, liberty, or property; it's not about what objects someone owns or carries.

Instead, everyone has the right to fight back if someone decides to use their tools to harm the innocent. Background checks and all other anti-weapon rules violate this right, making it safer for evil losers to commit atrocities without facing the possibility that someone may have the means to stop them before they do what they intend.

What can be done?

People can see when someone shows signs of having a mental problem, with or without formal psychological training. It's simple self-preservation. However, most people have been trained to be too polite to say so or to act on it. Break your training.

If you notice someone showing signs that something is going wrong in their brain, admit it. Stay alert. Warn others. Get some distance between yourself and them. If it's a family member, try to get them help before it's too late. Most importantly, be ready to defend yourself and others from them at all times. You may not like it, but it's your sacred responsibility.

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Bad people are having a tough time

Leftism is not the kind, caring, compassionate, enlightened position Leftists pretend it is.

No form of statism is.

I've seen several examples of Leftists counseling each other on how to make it through "difficult times like these". Poor babies!

I guess they mean times when not everyone wants to follow the same brand of statism they prefer. They can't believe some people don't like their brand of tyranny. This hurts their feelings terribly! They need a safe space where they can plan what they'll do to everyone who isn't 100% on their team on every issue, as soon as they can do everything their way again. They are so scared right now!

Oh, please. 

As if they aren't murderous, bigoted, hateful liars.

They'd completely lose their minds if they were capable of understanding that some of us don't want any statism at all. That we know we don't need to be governed. Not by them or by their loyal opposition, with whom they share so many personality flaws.

Their absurd "we're the reasonable people" schtick has run its course and is out of fuel. It's burning in the ditch. And they are still trying to paint it as it burns.

If they want to know how to "make it through times like these", they should see how you and I, and people like us, have been making it through the past 6000+ years, surrounded by people who would rather rob and kill us than let us live without their control over everything we do. They're just whiny because their team isn't the one with the power, on paper, at the moment.

Spoiled babies.

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