The Myth of Dudley Do-Right Defeating Snidely Whiplash

There is no solution to violent crime that will allow us to remain a society of cowards, so please stop looking for somebody else to save your ass.  It is impossible to take away all the resources for violence without lobotomizing us, as brains are the real weapons, and mental health isn't being fixed.  Only courage can defeat your terror!

The left wants to take guns away, as they believe that it would eliminate the "capacity" to do evil.  The right wants to fix the brains of crazy people before they snap, to eliminate the "intent" to do evil.  Both of these solutions want the government to create a policy that will externally make us safe.  They want somebody else to do something to prevent me from having to face the dangerous realities of the world.  Both sides want to believe that danger can be removed from a free society, and that is illogically impossible.  It belies the nature of a free society.  In a free society, evil is rarely preventable.  The creation of free society accepts that potential for evil in exchange for avoiding the much more horrid evil of totalitarianism or holocausts perpetrated by Leviathan governments.  It accepts the potentiality for evil being perpetrated by free lunatics because it expects that the society will be composed of people willing to protect themselves.

Conservatives have been saying that what has changed in the world is not the guns--which is true--but rather the degrading of moral values in our society.  Or, they argue that the large number of crazy people not institutionalized today is what leads to increases in violence.  I don't agree with these explanations.  What has changed is not the moral courage of our society, it is the physical courage of our society.  There were evil people in the 1950s who were deterred not by Andy Griffith and Barney Fife, who were always far away from the point of attack; they were deterred by a society of good men who would not tolerate evil in their presence.  These people were the last generation of Americans who accepted the RESPONSIBILITY that necessarily accompanies the LIBERTY of a free society.

Every situation where we want the government to do something to protect us, requires a sacrifice of liberty.  Authoritarian regimes have a great capacity to protect their citizens from themselves.  Hitler protected the pure Aryans from the evil Jews and Gypsies very effectively.  Stalin protected the communist revolution from Soviet dissenters very thoroughly.  But in a free society, where we have not only the right to bear arms but also the right of due process, the police cannot protect us from each other.  The only threat our government was originally supposed to protect us from was foreign invaders.  That has evolved to include foreign spies and terrorists, and probably went too far after September 11th, but it was not designed to protect us from our own citizens.  You would not want to live in a society where the government is supposed to protect its citizens from its own citizens.

The argument is not about the 2nd Amendment, it is about the 4th and 5th Amendments.  Government cannot protect you from evil members of our society so long as their is a right to be safe from unreasonable searches and seizures, and also the right to due process of law.  WHICH MEANS, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY FROM EVIL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY!

That is what both parties want to deny.  They want desperately to believe that the government can and should protect them.  "Forbid it almighty God!"  The only way to defeat evil is to oppose evil.  You cannot legislate it or regulate it or pass laws that the CRIMINALLY insane are going to respect.  They are willing to commit MASS MURDER, do you really think a Class 2 Misdemeanor for possession of a firearm under the age of 21 is going to deter them?  The word "Sheeple" appeared in our lexicon after 9/11 to describe those helpless and hapless souls waiting around for "rough men to do violence on their behalf" instead of following the example of my hero Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers of United Flight 93.  Unarmed and unprepared they confronted evil--and died as heroes--with the only weapon that matters, the weapon that our society of pansies refuses to wield:  COURAGE!

We live in a world where evil men do evil things, and the only thing that stands between them and the weak are brave men and women.  You do not have to wear a uniform to be brave.  You do not have to be armed to be brave.  You do not have to be big to be brave.  You must only refuse to be a victim.  Maybe you win, maybe you die.  But "dying in your bed many years from now would you be willing to trade all the days between this day and that for one chance" to tell your enemy that he may take your life but...fuck that, KILL THE EVIL SONOFABITCH!  That is how you defeat evil.

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