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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Gun Free Zones Are Killing our Children!

A major failed experiment of Liberals across the country was to
establish GUN FREE ZONES. The concept is simple enough, to ban all
firearms within certain areas.

There was no better place to start this grand idea then in our schools.
Perhaps a message could be sent to the children that guns are evil and
only for killing! It's double duty, prohibiting and demonizing guns at the
same time!

That GFZ concept is usually announced with bold red-letter signs.
Additional efforts are taken such as placing minimum wage, poorly trained,
guards with empty holsters and metal detectors at the doors of these
institution.

In theory the GFZs should work. The reality is that they only work to
insure a homicidal maniac can quickly gain control of the Gun Free Zone
and kill as many of our children as he pleases. The Gun free Zones and
unarmed security guards are no match for a determined and armed assailants
or terrorists.

When the so-called Mob gave up control of the Las Vegas hotel/casinos,to
new corporations, their gun-shy executives disarmed their security at
first opportunity. The result was an, unprecedented surge in take over
robberies and killings of tourists. The new Las Vegas executives soon
learned their mistakes and re-armed their security staff members. The
crime wave has all but ended.

The United States Postal Service used to have armed mailmen assigned to
security duties before the creation of the uniformed postal police.
These mailmen were disarmed and not replaced by the postal police. The
postal police were never in every post office like the armed mailmen. They
are called the same way you'd order a pizza, but the pizza would arrive
first.

Predictably the new term, "goin' postal" was born. Disgruntled and
disturbed employees began to settle their scores right there without
interference from anyone armed. The funeral directors got an increase in
business.

As corporations across the country soon adopted the empty holster, guard
programs another new term was born, "workplace violence". The same thing
happening in the postal facilities happened in factories everywhere.

When the GFZ programs fail the administrators then waste good money after
bad on more metal detectors and empty holster guards. The gun-hating
administrators refuse to admit the failure of their experiment. They just
can't seem to learn the lesson that guns are for protecting and saving
lives.

You would have though after the tragedy at the Columbine High School,
Colorado school officials would have learned something. Obviously they did
not.

If you are responsible for the safety of a business, school or other
institution sell your metal detectors and hire trained and armed
professionals and let them run the security programs. If you have an
empty holster guards who can't be trusted or trained to use a firearm, get
rid of them.

--
What we have called the "British tradition" was made explicit mainly by
a group of Scottish moral philosophers led by David Hume, Adam Smith,
and Adam Ferguson, seconded by their English contemporaries Josiah Tucker,
Edmund Burke, and William Paley, and drawing largely on a tradition rooted
in the jurisprudence of the common law. Opposed to them was the tradition
of the French Enlightenment, deeply imbued with Cartesian rationalism:
the Encyclopedists and Rousseau, the Physiocrats and Condorcet, are the
best-known representatives. [...]

Though these two groups are now commonly lumped together as the ancestors
of modern liberalism, there is hardly a greater contrast imaginable than
that between their respective conceptions of the evolution and functioning
of a social order and the role played in it by liberty. The difference
is directly traceable to the predominance of an essentially empiricist
view of the world in England and a rationalist approach in France. The
main contrast in the practical conclusions to which these approaches led
has recently been well put, as follows: "One finds the essence of freedom
in spontaneity and the absence of coercion, the other believes it to be
realized only in the pursuit and attainment of an absolute collective
purpose"; and "one stands for organic, slow, half-conscious growth, the
other for doctrinaire deliberateness; one for trial and error procedure,
the other for an enforced solely valid pattern." It is the second view,
as J.L. Talmon has shown in an important book from which this description
is taken, that has become the origin of totalitarian democracy.

The sweeping success of the political doctrines that stem from the
French tradition is probably due to their great appeal to human pride and
ambition. But we must not forget that the political conclusions of the
two schools derive from different conceptions of how society works. In
this respect the British philosophers laid the foundations of a profound
and essentially valid theory, while the rationalist school was simply
and completely wrong.

- F.A. Hayek, "The Constitution of Liberty"