Gun Control Kills

Gun control kills. See New York City, September 11, 2001.

No libertarian doubts this for a moment, particularly in light of the Columbine Massacre. After the events of September 11, 2001 no one who is not stupid, insane, or just plain evil can creditably argue that there is anything positive about gun control.

Or – as it is more correctly termed – victim disarmament.

On September 11, 2001, victim disarmament killed almost four thousand individuals.

My then-employer had an office in One World Trade Center. As part of my job, I spent the day on the Web, listening on Internet Relay Chat channels (IRC) and watching the few news agencies that weren't so flooded with traffic that they couldn't respond. Anything for news of our people.

I chatted with one man on IRC whose sister and 14-year-old daughter had been sightseeing in New York. Fortunately, they were both ultimately accounted for among the living – as were our New York employees.

I spent some time worrying about one of our people who generally flies out of Newark to San Francisco on United flight 97. Fortunately, she was discovered stranded at JFK airport.

Only slightly more horrifying than the events of the day themselves was the fact that no one I talked to seemed to understand that they were easily avoidable. It's important that we understand the truth of this: a few guns – that's all – would have prevented everything that occurred.

Just a few guns. That's all.

The fault for the events of September 11 (hereafter referred to by the name given to it by seminal libertarian author L. Neil Smith: "9/11") can be laid squarely at the feet of the 20,000-plus Unconstitutional and immoral victim disarmament laws in this country.

By extension, the fault of 9/11 can be laid at the feet of every power-mad, autocratic, would-be dictator who ever wrote or voted for a victim disarmament law.

Think of it: if only a tiny handful of people on each of the four aircraft that were hijacked had been armed, there would only be a dozen terrorists lying dead in pools of their own blood.

Instead, there are thousands of innocents dead under the rubble of the World Trade Center Towers.

Never forget this:

9/11 was avoidable.

It occurred because the Federal, State, and Local Governments all over the United States colluded to deprive individuals everywhere of their natural right to self-protection.

And we let them.

Now they're going to use 9/11 as an excuse to destroy whatever may be left of the Bill of Rights in the United States. Before the day ended, Federal officials were moving their lips, telling Americans that we were going to have to "pull together" and "make sacrifices" to eradicate terrorism.

That's all just government-speak for "give up our rights."

The time is past for talking to government about giving back our freedoms. The time is past for trying to vote our liberty back.

The time is past for waiting for the government to be nice to us for a change.

They're not going to give anything back to us. At best, they're going to collapse due to the basic financial instability of Statism. At worst, we're going to have another revolution to take back our rights.

Remember this, and remember it well: our governments would rather see four thousand people dead in the rubble than allow us the means to defend ourselves from terrorists.

The time is past to wait for the government to allow us to be free individuals. It's simply not going to happen.

It's time to ignore the gun laws. It's time to intentionally violate the gun laws. It's time to say to yourself, “Starting today, I am a free individual, and that's how I'm going to live.”

It's time to stop traveling by air. If the FedGov won't let you take a gun on a plane, take a train, a bus, or drive.

Or – if you've got the gumption (and I'll readily admit that I don't) – just let them drag you away in chains from the airport for refusing to become a victim.

Understand: we don't do this because we have a choice. Things are bad, and they're going to keep getting worse until government collapses internally or we have a civil war – whichever comes first. While we wait for the outcome, governments aren't going to make things better. They're going to make things much, much worse.

It's time to start ignoring government and their laws.

There's some strength in numbers. If even those individuals reading this decided to ignore the laws, it would be more people than can be policed – or coerced.

The choice is simple, and 9/11 proves it beyond even a shadow of a doubt:

1. Obey government laws and die.

2. Become a free individual and live.