Self-Defense
Recent Shootings Are a Wake-Up Call To Take Responsibility for Your Own Defense
At best, the authorities will show up after the threat has already occurred.
J.D. Tuccille | 3.16.2026 7:00 AM
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‘Armed Citizens to Defend and Protect Them’
“If my family were being attacked by bloodthirsty terrorists like those in Kenya or Paris, then I would want armed citizens to defend and protect them,” former Interpol Secretary General Ron Noble, an American who previously worked in the U.S. Treasury and Justice Departments, concluded in 2016. He raised similar concerns during his term in office following the 2013 Westgate mall attack in Nairobi.
Unfortunately, not all authorities are open to people possessing the means to defend themselves. Old Dominion University bans weapons, including knives with blades over three inches long. That policy didn’t stop Jalloh, who also illegally purchased the gun he used from another criminal. Despite the abject failure of policy and law, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi called on lawmakers to pass tighter gun restrictions. He must be furious that ROTC students found the means to resist a terrorist.
But the students at Old Dominion University did successfully halt the attack on their class, as did the guards at Temple Israel. Likewise, parishioners and staff at Crosspointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, engaged and killed an armed attacker last June. And Elisjsha Dicken shot and killed a would-be mass murderer at Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall in 2022.
Hopefully, nobody else will ever again have to shoulder such responsibilities. But hope isn’t a plan. Being ready and able to take on unpleasant situations should they arise offers a better chance for good outcomes.
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“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
I wish that our “liberal leftist” society would have some common sense. You are your own “first responder”.
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Everyone who has been in the military knows enough about firearms — the safety rules, how to make them go bang, and come reasonable close to the target — to be trusted with the defense of our civil society.
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
I out the pictures in to better illustrate the point. Since some of out fellow citizens and residents don’t get it.
There’s a reason why criminals don’t rob gun stores or bars where cops hang out. Connivence Stores, Gas Stations, Jewelry shops, and some Liquor Stores are much safer. Those and old senior citizens just trying to exist. (Although it is funny when one of this miscreants blunders into one.)
Let’s let the sheepdogs loose!
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