Understanding half the problem

September 12, 2008 by George
Filed under: RKBA 

Bitter has linked to a letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer that appears to be from a woman whose child was murdered in Philadelphia.

My beloved son was stolen from me on Oct. 4, 2006. I say “stolen” because that’s what happens. Our children aren’t “lost,” they are stolen from us by a horrid evil that lives in the hearts and minds of some human beings.

She then goes on a diatribe about how the NRA is to blame.

Who need guns to prove how tough they are – why don’t we put the blame where it truly belongs? They are an open, festering, rotten wound on the soul of this country that will never heal until something is done about them.

If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, they call themselves the National Rifle Association! We’ll continue to have a gun problem as long as we have people who are afraid of their own shadows.

No one in this nation is safe. No one!

Yesterday, I posted about my experience on 9/11, and how it took three planes crashing into buildings before I understood what was happening. Our minds reject horrible things…some things are so horrible that we simply reject the obvious explanation. The author of this letter suffers from this problem. She gets half of the problem right:

they are stolen from us by a horrid evil that lives in the hearts and minds of some human beings.

and later

No one in this nation is safe. No one!

Yes, that’s true. And unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to stop that.  The UK has found that out.  When you ban guns, you don’t stop the violence…it just becomes violence with knives, or hammers, or fists.  And that is a very, very hard thing to face.  It’s hard to face because it means that there isn’t a simple solution.

The only way, I believe, to stop violence is to make it ineffective.  Make it costly.  Make sure that anyone who plans to visit violence on another human being knows that they will have violence visited right back upon them.  We need to make the thugs in this world as afraid of us as we are of them.  And that takes the will and the fight and the courage to realize what is happening, and then resolve to do something about it.  And that, my friends, is very hard thing to face indeed.

UPDATE:

I should have known.  Turns out that there is more the story.

H/T to Days of Our Trailers

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3 Comments on Understanding half the problem

  1. thirdpower on Fri, 12th Sep 2008 10:26 am

    2. Her “beloved son” was stabbed in jail while awaiting trial for murder. Less than a year after he had gotten out from a 10 yr sentence for another shooting.

    http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2008/09/displacement.html

  2. George on Fri, 12th Sep 2008 10:56 am

    3. Should have seen that one coming.

  3. B Smith on Fri, 12th Sep 2008 4:00 pm

    4. Hm. So, again, guns had NOTHING TO DO with her son’s death (except for his ILLEGAL USE of one, which is why he was in prison in the first place), and mother connects this to the evil NRA…how?
    Oooohh… since the NRA advocates LOCKING UP violent felons who wantonly abuse 2A rights, maybe they ARE to blame.
    Lock her up as well, I say, as an accomplice after-the-fact.

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