My Take on Mass Shootings (written shortly after the VA Tech Shooting)

by Jamie Spaulding 

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
VA Tech Shootings

Category: Blogging
Being a personal protection instructor, combat shooter and all around gun guy, I get quizzed every time something like this happens. The number 1 question is what would I do. Normally I say I'd shoot back. Of course, in a school or college setting, the law abiding are the only ones disarmed. Since I tend to be law abiding I suppose I would find myself as unarmed as everyone else. It is hard to say what I would do, not knowing the specifics of what happened.

I'll do my best to tell you what I would not do. You'll have to make your own decisions for yourself.

1. I would not cower behind a desk or under a table and beg some gun wielding cretin for my life.

2. I would not allow some little maggot or gang of maggots to enslave me, be it for a minute or a lifetime.

3. I would not allow said cretin to reload! Ever!

4. I would not hold a door closed so others could escape, knowing I would be shot through said door. My death would only save the few in the room and leave this maniac in a condition to continue the carnage. If I am to be shot, I will be shot trying my best to disarm the low-life or trying to shove his larynx through his spinal column.

5. I would not let a punk decide when I will die. If I die it will be because I decided to act instead of melt.

6. I would not assume that, because he has a gun, he has power over me. The fact that he has taken to this cowardly deed says much about his psyche. He is and always will be a loser! I am and always will be a winner! He knows this already and at the first show of "cajones" he will fall apart and blow his worthless brains out.

7. Whether I lived or died, I would not have to live the rest of my life knowing I did nothing while others around me were slaughtered. There are many things worse than dying. Looking in the mirror every morning and knowing you did nothing while others died is one of them.

8. I would not wait to make these decisions after the shooting started. I will, instead, spend a goodly amount of time practicing my self defense tactics, both armed and unarmed. And I will devote much thought to developing the proper mindset. The proper mindset wins fights! Not weapons! Not the amount of rounds in your magazine!

9. If shot, I would not lay down and wait to die or be finished off. I will fight as long as there is breath in my body and as long as some part of me will move.

10. I would not buy into the modern mantra that says, "Violence is not the answer!" It has been said and is true, "We have been told so often that violence is not the answer to everything that we have come to believe it's not the answer to anything". Violence that harms the innocent must be answered with swift, ruthless, overwhelming violence! If this makes you squeamish or causes you to lose control of your bladder, WAKE UP! We are not headed toward some universal utopia. Mankind's imagination for wreaking havoc upon itself is boundless. If there is one thing six thousand years of civilization has taught us, it is that there will always be those in our midst who are capable of great evil. We have also learned that evil can succeed only when good men do nothing.

     Please know that my deepest sympathies go out to all the families touched by this tragedy. But also know that I cannot abide by the mental conditioning that allows healthy young men to lay behind a desk and play dead while others are being murdered. If all crime was met with immediate indignation and resistance, crime would stop! The cost would be too high for the miscreants who perpetrate it. They are, after all, COWARDS! Real men obey the law, labor to give their families a decent lot in life, and try to make their corner of the world a better place for all. Those who seek shortcuts by infringing on the freedom, dignity, or property of others, are too weak minded and weak spirited to live life honorably.

     And what of Honor? Is it an outdated concept? Perhaps it has never been a substantive thing. Only a thing of fairytales and fables. Some would have you believe it. I, however, know it exists. I see it everyday in people in the workplace, at church, and out in the community. If Honor exsists, then we should strive to be honorable. Putting others before ourselves. Serving something greater than our own materialistic appetites and the quest for longevity.

To the Liberals

     If you are one of those who believe that violence begets violence and you honestly feel you would rather die than resort to it. Take heart! There are still many in this country willing to act on your behalf. We believe in your right to be a pacifist but we will still crack the skull of the man we see raping your daughter. Don't, however, deny us the ability to defend ourselves and others who are too weak or too cowardly to do their own fighting. Just feel secure knowing that there are still a few of us neanderthals who are willing to get blood on our hands defending your worthless butt! Some of us believe that there are many causes worth our lives. That is why there are soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, policemen, and firemen. And don't forget the handgun permit holders. By their anonymous, covert, presence they reduce crime rates because selecting a victim becomes a high risk game. Although not required to come to your aid in a life threatening situation, they are permitted by law to do so. Should you decide to refuse to be a victim and lose your life preventing the death of another take comfort in these words.

"Greater love hath no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends"
John 15:13
Liberals hate it when we quote Jesus.
God Bless and Keep You All,
Jamie