Blessed Are Those Who, In The Face

Safety Is Something That Happens Between Your Ears, Not Something You Hold In Your Hands.

One Correspondent, Who Is Into Psychology, Notes That In His Experience People Who Are Hoplophobes Are Nearly Always Nutty In Other Ways, Too. Hoplophobia [fear Of Guns], Of Course, Is Not Simply An Attitude But Rather An Aberration In Which The Sufferer Clings To An Idea Which He Himself Knows To Be Unsound, Such As The Idea That Inanimate Instruments Have A Will Of Their Own Or That Lawbreakers Abide By The Law.

We Learn That Comrade [president Of South Africa Nelson] Mandela Has Announced In A Speech That He Hopes For A Bright Future In South Africa For ‘liberty’ And ‘equality.’ Anyone Who Has Thought About It Realizes That Liberty And Equality Are Antithetical Concepts. You Can Have One, Or You Can Have The Other, But You Certainly Cannot Have Both. As To That, Either Concept Is A Rather Futile Goal. Equality Is Biologically Impossible, And Liberty Is Only Obtainable In Homogeneous Populations Very Thinly Spread.

'heroism' Is Not The Same As Coping. A Man Who Does His Job Properly And Succeeds Through His Own Efforts Is Definitely To Be Commended, But He Is Not A Hero In The Classic Sense Until He Deliberately Lays His Life On The Line For A Cause He Deems To Be Greater Than Himself.

We Are Fully Justified In Valuing The Life And Person Of An Intended Victim More Highly Than The Life Of A Pernicious Assailant. The Attacker Must Be Stopped. At Once And Completely.