“You do not enter a race to lose”
Leigh Bardugo
On 7 Oct 23, Israeli citizens (at least ones who are still alive and paying attention) learned an important lesson about defensive firearms- guns that are continuously in the hands of individual private citizens.
We need to pay attention too, at least those of us who value our lives and continued good health!
At the Ein Hashlosha Kabbutz, there was supposedly a “security team” in place on the fateful day. But, it was a “security team” in name only!
Even among team members, there was the universal assumption that “The IDF will protect us, so we really don’t need to take our personal safety, nor the safety of our community, seriously” (and most didn’t)
When the unthinkable happened, most “security team” members immediately panicked, fled, and hid, contributing little to anyone’s defense.
I’m confident that wasn’t “The Plan!”
Of the “security team’s” fourteen members, a few had privately-owned handguns but only a small amount of ammunition. Most had no weapons at all. There were only four military rifles assigned to the team, but those rifles were not privately owned, nor privately kept. They were all government property “on loan” to the community, and kept locked-up in an impromptu storage area.
However, IDF was unhappy with stowage arrangements for these rifles, so a year earlier the rifles had been taken away from the community, by the IDF, with the admonishment that they would be returned only when the community built a suitably-secure “armory.”
That never happened!
The stage was now set, and the rest is, of course, history.
Regrettably, the foregoing murderous catastrophe is nothing new in world history, and events like this are exactly the reason our Constitution’s Second Amendment was written as it was.
We may hire civilian police officers to provide some degree of “community protection,” yet as sovereign citizens of the USA, our protective guns are privately owned and privately kept. It is an Individual Right of Citizenship, not an arbitrary privilege, nor a “favor,” capriciously granted (to “select individuals”) by smug government officials.
This disaster painfully illustrates the difference between publicly-owned weapons and privately-owned weapons!
Either way, well-protected government officials will ever look upon innocent citizens as expendable cannon-fodder.
They always have, as we see!
“My baseball career spanned almost five decades, from 1925 to 1973, count them, and in all that time I never had a boss call me upstairs so that he could congratulate me for ‘losing like a gentleman.’
‘How you play the game’ is for college boys.
When you’re playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. Show me a ‘good loser’ in professional sports, and I’ll show you an idiot.
Show me a ‘sportsman,’ and I’ll show you a player I’m looking to trade to Oakland, so that he can discuss his salary with that other ‘great sportsmen,’”
Leo Durocher
/John
