Professional victim Colin "The Alchemist" Goddard is featured in a "gun control" cheerleading movie called "Living for 32," which evidently attempts to explain how banning private sales at gun shows could have prevented the shooting of the 32 Virginia Tech victims--shot with guns not bought at gun shows. Perhaps it also explains how maintaining universities' ability to mandate that students and faculty be just as disarmed and defenseless as Goddard and the other victims were (preserving campus gun bans is, along with the "gun show loophole" myth, one of Goddard's signature issues) will help prevent that kind of slaughter in the future.
Naturally, the forcible citizen disarmament lobby loves this film, with the Brady Campaign (Goddard's employer) promoting it relentlessly. The film's title, we're told, is intended not only to commemorate the deaths of the 32 killed at Virginia Tech that horrible day, but also the similar number of people murdered with guns on an average day in the U.S. A noble enough (ostensible) intent, certainly.
It is always noble to commemorate the innocent dead, particularly those whose deaths were needless and unjust, and even more particularly when the goal is to prevent such deaths in the future--although it is of course more than fair to ask some pointed questions about how the new laws pushed by Goddard and his bosses would accomplish that noble goal. An equally fair--and more important--question is how those proposed laws can be reconciled with the Second Amendment's shall not be infringed.
More fundamental than even that, though, is to point out just what is being offered up in sacrifice, if an uninfringeable right to keep and bear arms is no longer considered to be not only a Constitutional guarantee, but a fundamental human right that predates the Constitution, and any other document.
That's where the title of today's column, "Living for 170,000,000," comes in. As charted by Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership (JPFO), governments murdered 170,000,000 of their own citizens over the course of the 20th century, after first passing citizen disarmament laws. Genocide is, after all, a good deal easier when the intended victims cannot effectively resist.
The purpose of the Second Amendment, though some will no doubt call me an "Insurrectionist" for saying so (even Justice Scalia has not escaped being so labeled, for the same reason), is to protect the people's means to resist, and ultimately abolish, a government that seeks to usurp the ultimate authority of the people--a government that has, in other words, become tyrannical. There can be no greater tyranny than the wholesale slaughter of the people by their own government. The Second Amendment exists to prevent the cherished goal of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)--their oft-touted "government monopoly on force," and genocide is the ultimate expression of such a monopoly.
We'll see your 32, Goddard, and raise you 169,999,968.
See also:
- Guest Editorial: "Resistance is Futile": Waco Rules vs. Romanian Rules
- To honor Marek Edelman, help put teeth in 'never again'
- Praxis Repost: Strippers. "Juden haben waffen!"
- Resisting tyranny: Neither a new idea, nor an invention of the 'gun lobby'
- Monopoly can be a deadly game
- CSGV says only the government can protect you from . . . the government
- Why shouldn’t ‘human targets’ shoot back?
- 'Gun control' gets a new poster boy
- Right to keep and bear arms: We'll never know how many lives it has saved
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