Armed Citizens To The Rescue

Today's Thoughts By Jeff Head 1/24/13 Armed Citizens To The Rescue

August First, the year nineteen sixty six, Charles Whitman a ex Marine with an IQ of one hundred and thirty killed fourteen people including his mother and wife and wounding thirty two others at the University of Texas. This event held the record for the worst school shooting until the Virginia Tech shooting just a few years ago. Sitting on top of the clock tower twenty nine stories high, not only did he have a perfect bird’s eye view of his many targets, but with walls thirty inches thick and police armed with only thirty eight caliber pistols, the range was too great; no one could touch him. He held complete control of the killing field for almost ninety minutes.

Police and citizens alike ran from the scene to their homes and returned with high powered rifles that had the capacity to reach the range required for such a height. Together, citizens and police used their high powered arms to keep the shooter at bay and from being able to rise up and take more shots, more lives.

As this was going on, three police officers backed up by yet another armed citizen with a rifle worked their way up to the observation deck of the tower. The citizen watching the back of the officers as the officers made their way to the shooter and took him out. Proof if you ask me that legally armed law abiding citizens make a difference.

Now, let us look at a few facts about our shooter on this sad day in our history. He had been seeing a physiologist about headaches and the things he had been thinking about. Talked often times about the tower and how it would be a great place to shoot from. His father would often beat family members as he was growing up.  He had an urge to write so he left behind many letters including one asking for an autopsy in case something went wrong with him. The autopsy was performed and a glioblastoma tumor was found in his brain. The findings of a commission that looked into the matter was that the tumor was the most probable cause of the incident.

In today’s world as we continue to watch these types of shootings, we continue to find that the shooter has in some way a mental defect. We know that in each case of the past several years that time and time again this is true. And we know that in each case, they completely look over the fact that physiological defects are the main cause while they keep trying to put the blame on the tool used, a fire arm.

The question that I ask is this, when will people that use political correctness as the cure for these shootings finally get around to the actual cause of them and start saving lives by dealing with reality? There is simply no way to know who or where some unknown switch will go click and hundreds of unlucky victims will find themselves the target of yet another delusional mind.  Our Constitution gives us the right to protect ourselves, it is about time our government remembered this fact. Hopefully, before the next click of a mental switch.

Be safe peeps. God Bless America

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