IT TAKES A GUN TO STOP A GUN

In every state we have traffic laws. We have speed limits. We have drinking while driving laws. These laws are designed to protect us while we are out on the road. We have these protections and still every day dozens of people are killed and injured by speeders, drunks, and all sorts of traffic mishaps. Does this mean that our laws are insufficient? Does this mean these laws don’t really protect us? Or does this possibly mean that some people just don’t obey laws?

Did you know that in the case of this latest mass shooting in El Paso, it was illegal to bring any guns into the mall where twenty-two innocent people were gunned down and dozens of others were injured? Do you think the evil piece of human waste who perpetrated that crime cared one bit about the law? It has even been reported that this slimeball bought his gun legally. Do you think that if he couldn’t legally buy a gun that he wouldn’t get one anyway? 

As a nation, we need to wake up. Feel-good legislation is just that. When an evil individual has an evil intention, he will find a way, unless he is stopped.

Today thousands of people are screaming to their lawmakers to do something. Pass new laws. Stop the violence. Make all this ugliness go away. Help us feel better. Suspend the Second Amendment. Arrest people for their evil thoughts before they commit any crimes. Never mind what the Constitution says. We need to be protected. 

Well, we might just as well pass laws against lightning. We all know of people who obey the laws. They never speed or drink and drive. In every regard they are model citizens and still, they are victims of senseless crime, or tragic traffic accidents. Things happen. And they rarely happen on our schedule.

Some say there are just too many guns. I, on the other hand espouse a different belief. What if I told you rather than too many guns, I said there are too few guns? What if, in the El Paso situation, some legal gun owner standing nearby pulled out his own weapon and blew the head off the shooter when he started shooting?  

What if, rather than a sign indicating that mall was a gun free zone, it said instead, our good citizens who shop here are probably armed and skilled at stopping crime. Do you think the perpetrator might have looked elsewhere for victims? 

If you saw the video of the shooting in Dayton, Ohio, you saw police advancing immediately on the scene with their guns blazing. The killer was dead in seconds. It has been suggested that had this clown gotten inside the bar, dozens of innocent people would have been killed or wounded. Simply stated, it takes a gun to stop a gun.

Usually it takes longer for the police to arrive. They don’t normally prevent crimes, they clean up after the crime has been committed. 

Most of the citizens of this great country are law abiding people. Most, I am sure, would prefer the police take care of crime. But sometimes one’s choices are few and we have to act.

Personally, I am a military veteran who has received extensive training in firearms of all sorts. I also have a license to carry concealed weapons. It is my hope and my belief that if I were ever in the unlikely situation of being confronted by an active shooter, that should I not survive, I would be found with an empty gun in my hand because I would have emptied it on the shooter.

Ron Scarbro