Diane Sawyer isn’t my favorite person in the World partly because she is just plain annoying and has this arrogant air about her, but also because she just doesn’t get it when it comes to a lot of topics. She recently aired a 20/20 episode about how having a gun to defend yourself wouldn’t be a good thing, or something to that effect. Well Ignatius Piazza has some nice input on that. I want to specifically point out a couple news stories he mentions.
This story is frankly rather crazy. But these guys looked pretty serious until the man decides to defend himself.
This story is rather chilling because the poor lady had just been raped and the guy came back a second time. Thankfully this time she was prepared. Note that the police couldn’t have gotten there in time. It only takes a few minutes to be raped and murdered.
Or this story, what would have happened if the student didn’t have a gun in his backpack, and hadn’t chosen to defend his friends and himself? Him and his friends would be dead now which is what the two “invaders” wanted.
Also, keep this in mind. Before World War II started Hitler began disarming the population of Germany, specifically Jews and other people he deemed trouble makers or inferior species. Unable to defend themselves 13 million people were murdered. All because of gun control… This is hardly a isolated incident either, look at Stalin and the 20 million “dissidents” he murdered between 1929 and 1953.
