Dr. Ben Carson is under attack for some common-sense prescriptions for protecting the lives of children and other innocents from mass killers.
The presidential candidate and world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon suggested that mass killers, like so and so in Roseburg, Oregon, last week, should be stormed by those awaiting death and injury at their hands.
"I would not just stand there and let him shoot me," said Dr. Carson. "I would say: 'Hey, guys, everybody attack him! He may shoot me, but he can't get us all.'"
He also suggested declaring schools as so-called "gun-free zones" is counterproductive and added that having trained, gun-bearing instructors is preferable, saying: "If the teacher was trained in the use of that weapon and had access to it, I would be much more comfortable if they had one than if they didn't."
Remarkably, Dr. Carson is being pilloried by the media for such suggestions.
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Yet. I've never seen the New York Times or the Huffington Post question why large banks have armed security guards.
I've never seen TV anchors question why jewelry stores have armed security guards.
I've never seen anyone question why Brinks trucks have armed security guards.
Why is that?
Are money and material goods more precious to us than the lives of kindergarten students?
Are they more precious than the lives of college students?
Are they more precious than the lives of innocent people at the mercy of one maniac?
And what's wrong with the suggestion that people herded together to await execution at the hands of a single armed lunatic should rush the perp and overpower him? Isn't that precisely what people in such circumstances should do? In fact, isn't that just what one hero did in Roseburg – at serious, life-threatening risk to himself? Wouldn't the carnage in Roseburg have been much worse without his intervention?
No wonder Dr. Carson is doing so well in the national polls. He's speaking common sense! He's speaking frankly and saying things that need to be said and haven't been said for such a long time. He's interjecting reason into the national debate and dialogue. He's destroying the "political correctness" barriers that have turned Americans into passive sheep headed for the slaughter.
While Dr. Carson is accused of making irresponsible statements, it is his critics who are being irresponsible by saying we should continue to follow policies that are not working – namely disarming law-abiding citizens, turning schools into so-called "gun-free zones" in which only criminals have guns and advocating non-resistance when victims are faced with death on a massive scale.
What Dr. Carson said in the aftermath of Roseburg would have been considered conventional wisdom, consensus, rationality, wisdom, sound judgment not that long ago in America. Today, such candor and truthfulness is treated by some as aberration, oddity, peculiarity, quirkiness.
That's how off-track America's moral and intellectual culture has become – especially in institutions like the media and academia.
Ben Carson is right.
It's time to rethink and discard "gun-free zones," which are counterproductive to saving lives.
It's time to ensure that law-abiding citizens carrying firearms are welcome everywhere in our society as a safeguard against crime, murder, mayhem and terror.
It's time to train Americans to resist the slaughter of the innocent by any means necessary, including laying down one's own life to save others.
The answer to violence by a tiny minority is not reducing the liberty of the overwhelming majority. Just the opposite.
The answer to reducing violence by a tiny minority is expanding the liberty of the overwhelming majority, knocking down the failing restrictions against bearing arms and protecting the lives of the innocent with deadly force.
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