"Recently, it is fear in response to the aforementioned events driving organizations such as the True Conservatives and Libertarians United at SFCC and the Facebook group "Allow Legal Guns on University Campuses" to demand the passing of a bill allowing students and teachers to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. These groups believe allowing students and teachers this right would prevent incidents like Columbine and Virginia Tech, places that have become synonymous with gun violence. In other words, equipping students with fire to fight an even more treacherous fire will somehow calm their fears. Leaders of the groups advocating this right say that criminals target unarmed citizens and do not follow the gun laws mandated by states. This makes students particularly easy targets, left at the mercy of murderous individuals. Opponents of the current gun-free zone laws on campuses cite their inalienable liberties - their Second Amendment rights.
Both sides present convincing arguments, accompanied with facts and figures from all sorts of government agency reports. Our minds explode at the sight of the statistics, the body counts and the video footage. But still, we have to fight this. The world can't come to this. By adopting such a policy, we aren't moving forward with our lives. We are moving back to a more primitive time - a time where it was kill or be killed. We're not at war, we're in college. People carrying guns distract us from our purpose. We have enough reckless behavior present on college campuses. We don't need to add guns into the mix. When you carry a gun, you are ready and willing to kill someone if need be. Are we really prepared to take someone's life before we truly begin our own?
The most alarming aspect of this proposal is the shocking realization that we are turning into a culture of fear - a place where arming ourselves is freeing and proof of self-ownership. This sense of freedom is merely an illusion, though.
UF's goal is to teach and enlighten. Let's not forget this in the midst of tragedy. We can't learn from our fears if we are enslaved by them."
Fisk at your leisure. Turning INTO a culture of fear? No, my dear boys and girls of the left, we've always BEEN a culture a fear. Fear is a good thing, a healthy thing. It keeps you on your toes, helps to brace for the saber-tooth's attack, for the adrenaline necessary to fight back the marauding cave bears. And in recent memory to stave off the two-legged predators who are after all the most dangerous. A healthy dose of fear is not only admirable, it is inevitable. Sorry to drag the real world into your sketches of nirvana, but the most battle hardened veteran experiences fear. There can be no life, no survival, without it.
CONQUERING your fear is what needs be learned. Dismissing it as an emotion unworthy of modern man is stupid, and usually leads to the sort of tragedy seen at Virginia Tech. Fear PLUS wisdom equals survival. What you and your liberal ilk push isn't a world without fear, far from it. This is called burrowing one's head, ostrich-like, into the sand with the hopes that the bad things will simply go away if we pay them no mind.
On the contrary. That is precisely what ATTRACTS human predators. Fight BACK, and they soon depart for easier pickings.
And by the way, kid; it isn't fear that is enslaving you. It's your unwillingness to come to grips with life on planet earth. And for the love of Pete, "minds exploding" at the mere sight of statistics? Doesn't a Journalism 101 teacher look this stuff over before it gets to ink? Wait. One probably did and may have even recommended it.
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