Fort
Hood, Gun-Free Zones By J. Matt Barber
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They say
that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Not true. It does
if you stand high atop a cliff’s edge waving a lightning rod above your
head during a thunderstorm. In fact, in the unlikely event you survive
the first strike, it’ll keep right on striking until you climb down. So-called
“gun-free zones” are lightning rods for mass murder. It’s time we climbed
down from the cliff’s edge. America
mourns yet another needless and preventable mass shooting at Fort Hood,
Texas. When will gun-grabbing liberals learn? In a
blunt and provocatively titled, though well-reasoned post,
submitted shortly after Wednesday’s shooting, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft
charged: “Obama Is Responsible for Latest Fort Hood Murders Still a
Gun-Free Zone.” Wrote Hoft: “In
2009 Islamist killer Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist,
fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas.
Fort Hood was a gun-free zone. “Hasan reportedly screamed, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as he committed his mass murder. … “Barack
Obama termed this Islamic terrorist attack ‘workplace violence.’ Complete
lunacy. “After
the first mass killing nothing changed. Fort Hood is still a gun-free
zone. President Bill Clinton’s gun-free policies are still in place. “Today
there was another mass shooting at Fort Hood. Soldiers were told to take
cover and hide like cowards as a crazed gunman shot at least 14 Americans
on base. The shooter, Ivan Lopez, then shot himself in the head. “These
deaths are the result of failed policies. These deaths are the result
of a dangerous ‘gun free zone’ policy. “The Obama administration is responsible for this mass shooting. They witnessed this before. They didn’t learn a thing. Gun-free zones are death zones,” concluded Hoft. Of course,
no one but Ivan Lopez is responsible for his own horrific crimes. Still,
this Obama administration is likewise responsible for its own criminally
horrific incompetence. By maintaining his demonstrably failed “gun-free zone” policy at Fort Hood (and anywhere for that matter), Obama may as well have beckoned: “Hey, would-be mass murderers, we’ve still got some unarmed soldiers here. Come and finish ‘em off!” This
president is undeniably culpable. His reckless insistence upon preserving
this obtuse, liberal but I repeat myself gun-grabbing policy rendered
defenseless, once again, the fine servicemen and women of Fort Hood. It
kept in place the same mass-murder-rich environment in which Nidal Malik
Hasan committed the first Fort Hood “fish-in-a-barrel” soldier hunt. And
the only people surprised are you gun-control nutters. Here’s
the thing about liberalism, which is really cultural Marxism, euphemistically
tagged “progressivism”: It’s never worked and it never will. It can’t.
It’s a material impossibility. “Progressivism” can no more work than can
one answer a nonsense question like, “How big is blue?” As with all similar
such humanistic efforts to achieve a man-made earthly utopia, “progressivism”
is a hopeless non-starter. Why?
Because “progressivism” is utterly detached from reality. There’s truth,
and then there’s “progressivism.” Central to every single “progressive”
policy, without exception, is the fatally flawed denial of the existence
of sin of man’s fallen nature. There’s also a stupidly stubborn refusal
to acknowledge the reality of moral absolutes. “Progressivism” is built
upon a utopian, relativist house of cards; and when that house comes crashing
down, the results are often deadly. This
past Wednesday America witnessed liberalism’s deadly results first hand.
A public policy that intentionally disarms American citizens much less
American soldiers is a policy that creates a pond full of sitting ducks;
this, whether we have a terrorist behind the trigger, or a government
with designs on tyranny. Notice
a trend here? What do Sandy Hook Elementary, Aurora, Colorado’s Century
16 theater, Columbine High, Fort Hood No. 1 and Fort Hood No. 2 all have
in common? They’re all “gun-free zones.” Oh,
if only, rather than “gun-free zone” signs, each of these terror Ground
Zeros had had a sign reading: “Staff heavily armed and trained. Any attempts
to harm those herein will be met with deadly force.” Might
some of those beautiful souls have still died before one or more well-armed
good guys could take out the well-armed bad guys? Perhaps. But how many
precious lives could have been saved? Albert
Einstein famously quipped that the definition of “insanity” is “doing
the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In
that sense, “progressives” are insane. Or,
if not exactly insane, they’re certainly no Einsteins. I’ll admit that many “progressives” are generally well-meaning and decent people. I even have a handful of “progressive” friends who’ve yet to see the light. I love ‘em, but they still want what they can’t have, at least not until that glorious last trumpet sounds. They
want heaven on earth. It’s
not for lack of sincerity that “progressives” are destroying America and
putting lives at risk. It’s
for failure to grasp reality. Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. |
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