Posted by
Jon on Monday, April 23, 2007 7:52:08 PM
With the Virginia Tech shooting this week, there has been much follow-up talk about gun laws. There is a typical conservative argument that restrictive gun laws enable such massacres. "Gun Free" zones in schools only serve to disarm the "good guys."
This argument is rarely persuasive to the liberal left. It got me wondering...why not?
I think we see an answer in another of last week's news items. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared Iraq a lost war and is pushing yet another piece of legislation calling for troop withdrawl.
Fundamentally, liberals don't believe in the concept of self-defense. Whether at the national level or the personal level, liberals would gladly spend more time understanding the enemy than they would devote to defending against the enemy. What's more, there's ample evidence that the left is unwilling to even call the "bad guys" what they are. If liberals aren't willing to identify evil, how can they be expected to confront it?
They don't want our country to defend itself, and they don't want you to defend yourself.
At least they're consistent.