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A well-aimed bullet would have stopped Cho. But gun-free zones are not the only areas in need of reclamation. The concept of the individual as a responsible, self-determining agent is the foundation of a free society. Liberty requires that psychiatric mumbo-jumbo not be allowed to oust morality. - Ilana Mercer
World Net Daily published this article today: Evil, not ill - By Ilana Mercer, about the shooter in the Virginia Tech killings. The last paragraph, I thought, was worth quoting and commenting on, especially the middle sentence:"The concept of the individual as a responsible, self-determing agent is the foundatioin of a free society."
We seem to have forgotten this for the most part in today's society. People today wish to make the government responsible for them. They look to the government to protect them from crime and fraud, they want the government to insure them against unemployment and poverty, and they want the government to provide medical care.
There was a time when the people themselves were responsible for their own protection, provision, and health. Those who fell on bad times and could not provide for themselves were taken care of by their neighbors. This philosophy is what the freedom Americans enjoy is based on. Our founding fathers chose not to make the people dependent upon the government, as people in Europe were, so that they may be free, their own people, and not slaves of the state.
The people of today, however, have apparently chosen otherwise. They would prefer to be slaves of the state, if that means they are free from worries and responsibility.
