Pedro's Podium: December 2012

In the 1950s Walt Disney dreamed of an amusement park. “It was a vision of a place where children and parents could have fun together.” This dream was realized in the creation of Disneyland. Within Disneyland one of the popular sections is Fantasyland. Fantasyland was created with the goal to "make dreams come true" from the lyrics of "When You Wish Upon a Star." It is good for the human condition to, on occasion, relieve the stress of everyday life and indulge in relaxation. But it is very unhealthy to live your life divorced from reality.

It is very frightening to realize how many adults seem to live in a fantasyland that they have created. The Progressive movement and the New Age Religion have encouraged this type of delusional thinking. A major idea behind Progressive thinking is the idea that man can create a perfect world. The belief that man can find a way to change the world to fit their image of perfection should make everyone worry. What happens to those who do not fit their mold? Just what will happen to those who don’t match or agree with the prefect image created by those in power? How far will this totalitarian regime go to control this perfect world? What price will have to be paid by those who think differently?

To demonstrate such thinking you only need to look at what people are saying about the terrible shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Before the victims had been removed from the school house, people were already wallowing in the blood. They wasted no time to start blaming the violence on guns and demanding new gun control laws. It doesn’t matter that this tragic event had nothing to do with guns or so-called “assault” weapons. This entire affair falls directly on the shoulders of government and misguided gun laws. The laws now being proposed in Congress are the reaction of blood thirsty politicians who were just waiting for the next mass killing to manipulate the emotions of the American People. They wasted no time to dance out and propose new laws and attempt to undo (dare I say it) progress made over the last few years to undo the damage done by the gun grabbers in the past. Many are being misled into believing lies, half-truths, and misinformation about the cause of this tragic attack by a coward.

There is the idea that we would all be safer if all guns were taken out of the hands of American Citizens. The idea comes right out of fantasy land. Those who live in this fantasy land believe that the problem is the guns. That anyone who owns a gun should be considered a criminal. The idea that anyone would ever need to engage in self-defend is a crazy notion. They believe that somehow we can put all of the evil in the world back into Pandora’s Box. They see guns as the root of evil and that without guns people would not kill one another. Well that is simply crazy. Guns are not the problem. Yes we do live in a society that has violence in it. But that is the nature of a free society. We must accept some violence but we must also be able to fight violence with violence. That is what self-defense is all about. Guns are not the only device that can be used to mortally wound another person. But that really is not the point. Man alone cannot end man’s inhumanity to man.

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As the Progressive / Democrats have moved to outlaw gun possession in this country, crime increased. Now as states have undone the anti-gun laws and instituted concealed carry laws, the crime rate has decreased. In many cases this is due to those who might consider robbing someone, are now uncertain of who might be ready, willing, and able to fight back. A potential victim may be well armed and willing to use it. The biggest problem with the implementation of these laws, and the ones that came before, is the creation of free-fire/killing zones. The most glaring are educational institutions. If I walk into a school building, or any place that does not allow concealed-carry, I know that all the law abiding people in there are unarmed. Unless there is an armed police officer or security guard, the criminal feels free to create as much mayhem as they wish. If they are suicidal then they can go down in a blaze of glory with the Left Stream Media more than willing to give them the notoriety they desire. But if there is the possibility that their potential victims will fight back, their blaze of glory will turn into a short lived news flash, soon forgotten.

Almost every morning millions of parents send their children off to government run schools. In the fall parents send their teenager off to government regulated colleges. These schools and colleges should be safe. But the government has failed in their primary responsibility because politicians refuse to admit that they were wrong. By preventing the trained professionals who are committed to not only teaching but protecting their daily charges, they created an environment that welcomed the type of events that have occurred in Newtown and other educational institutions in this nation. By not trusting the educators to protect their charges they created an environment that allowed this coward to walking and kill at will. I will not use the name of any coward that commits mass murder to gain fame. By creating schools that are “gun free” the state welcomed anyone so inclined, to have no fear of meeting any resistance as they carry out whatever senseless act they wish. Sandy Hook Elementary School’s only protection was a locked door. There was nothing else standing in the coward’s way that could even slow him down. This is a failure of government and the politicians who promised to keep our children safe. This is not the fault of educators as a whole. Many of them feel responsible for their students and would do anything to protect them. You need to look no further than the heroics of those adults killed at Sandy Hook.

I’m an educator. After the murders at Virginia Tech, there were those of us that hoped that those in power would see the danger created by not allowing educators the ability to defend our students. But all the talk was about gun control and improving security plans. (It is easy to see how security plans fall apart.) Yes, many schools studied the murders at VT and put in new procedures, but few really made any major changes. After a while most administrators simply forgot or moved on to other projects. Little has changed on many campuses that would stop the type of death and destruction seen at VT.

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Now I know that the detractors will say: That we can’t trust teachers to actually carry and use firearms in a school. But why can we not trust them? Why haven’t we already had an educator who opened fire on their students? As it has been said many times; murder is illegal. So what is stopping any person who wants to kill from carrying out that crime? If you are going to murder someone in a public place, you are not going to care about whether or not it is illegal to possess a firearm. So yes we actually have to trust law abiding citizens who are charged with the protection of innocent children, young and in many cases adults.

I’m not saying that you should arm every educator in the nation, no more that everyone in the country should be forced to wear a gun all the time. What I’m saying: is that we should remove the label free-fire zone from our schools and make sure that a coward will never feel comfortable with the idea that they can walk into any educational institution and kill at will. We should never have children huddled, defenseless, in a closet waiting for a cowardly madman to take their lives. It is time to take action to stop limiting guns, but improve access to the guns that are needed by law abiding citizens. Any move to disarm the nation will leave everyone at the mercy of the next madman who wishes to impose his will or kill us outright. The Progressive anti-gun lobby would have us all cowering, defenseless like the victims at Sandy Hook.

So, no we are unable to stop all violence. We cannot live in a perfect world as the Progressives wish. We must demand some answers to one very important question. What do they do with those who don’t fit or accept their definition of “perfect?” The last attempts at creating perfect societies were major human disasters. I can name three off the top of my head:

1. Jonestown
2. Pol Pot’s Cambodia
3. Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

All ended badly in mass murder. But don’t forget about Stalin’s Soviet Union and Mao’s China. Each killed millions and still didn’t fulfill the stated goal. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

I don’t want to live in a world controlled by those who would try to create a “Brave New World” on the bodies of millions of their victims. This is a disaster that would make the Sandy Hook killings look more like a happy day at the park. There is nothing perfect about that world. That is not a fantasy land, it is a nightmare. Don’t forget that man is not perfect and any attempt to create perfection will not end well. We must live in a reality that does not always fit our idea of how we desire to live, but it beats living under the total control a tyrant who is willing to kill millions just to satisfy they desires.

We live in a very dangerous world. We need the people in positions of influence to not be delusional. But in the hours following the last few tragedies the news media (Left Stream Media) was painting the standard narrative, blaming the violence on "Assault" weapons. The Second Amendment, and the NRA. Just like Vichy Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) in Casablanca as soon as the media hears a gun shot they round up the usual suspects. Which any thinking person should realize is a smoke screen. They start to play upon the emotions of the moment to convince us that the only way to stop this from happening again is to throw away one of our most important freedoms. Unfortunately I'm sure that many of the uninformed believe the media. It is up to the informed to fight back against those who have shown no regard for those killed. They only wish to use the blood of the innocent victims to: In the words of Rahm Emmanuel "not let a crisis go to waste."

The failure of the current system is not due to guns, it is due to unrealistic and unconstitutional gun control laws. We as a people must live in the real world. In the real world there are monsters, madmen, and pure evil. Believing that we can change that and still live a life of liberty and happiness is living in a fantasy land. The real world is real. Living in fantasy is a step closer to the madness that propelled the coward to murder the innocents of the world.