Comments on: Courage http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:56:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bravery’s Scarcity » The American Mind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57969 Bravery’s Scarcity » The American Mind Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:47:32 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/#comment-57969 [...] “While The VT Killer Was Killing, Where Were The Men?” [via Blue Crab Boulevard] Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] “While The VT Killer Was Killing, Where Were The Men?” [via Blue Crab Boulevard] Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> By: feeblemind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57943 feeblemind Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:39:04 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/#comment-57943 One of the things about this tragic event that gets me is that Va Tech was a *Gun Free Zone*. Will libs ever learn that simply issuing edicts will not necessarily make it so? One of the things about this tragic event that gets me is that Va Tech was a *Gun Free Zone*. Will libs ever learn that simply issuing edicts will not necessarily make it so?

]]> By: Hyscience http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57942 Hyscience Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:37:56 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/#comment-57942 <strong>While The VT Killer Was Killing, Where Were The Men?...</strong> John Derbyshire says what surely many have been wondering since last night: As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't ... While The VT Killer Was Killing, Where Were The Men?…

John Derbyshire says what surely many have been wondering since last night: As NRO’s designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn’t …

]]> By: Uncle Pinky http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57939 Uncle Pinky Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:26:13 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/04/17/courage-2/#comment-57939 What I find telling is that the people who respond, heroically in cases like this, are people who have encountered adversity before. People who have learned through tribulations that they must rely on only themselves. These individuals become rarer and scarcer in the Nerf world, to the point that individual self-protection is punishable. United Flight 93 did not make it to the terrorist chosen target because some people, rugby players and other rough men and women, were able to see the strategy of the monsters. Prof. Librescru, and all of the dead; I apologize for your having to live in a country where youth are taught to be slaughtered rather than take fate in their hands. A Country that was founded in individual responsibility has devolved into a country in which we would rather die by a monster's hand to no purpose or use than even take a chance that we might, might, be aggresive and successful. No blame attaches to these students, nor could it. Since they were off the teat they have supped on the pabulum of "violence is not the answer" and when parents, books and TV have taught docility, it is to be expected. I blame Marlo Thomas for "Free to Be You and Me" and the whole equivical morality culture. "Fighting is wrong" they pronounce. "All people are good, just in different ways" they proclaim. Crap. 32 people died and one monster self-destructed yesterday because these ideas and ideals have turned us into Whiffle-Ball people. My apologies for ranting, and here endeth my contribution for the night. Regards, Uncle Pinky What I find telling is that the people who respond, heroically in cases like this, are people who have encountered adversity before. People who have learned through tribulations that they must rely on only themselves.

These individuals become rarer and scarcer in the Nerf world, to the point that individual self-protection is punishable.

United Flight 93 did not make it to the terrorist chosen target because some people, rugby players and other rough men and women, were able to see the strategy of the monsters.

Prof. Librescru, and all of the dead; I apologize for your having to live in a country where youth are taught to be slaughtered rather than take fate in their hands.

A Country that was founded in individual responsibility has devolved into a country in which we would rather die by a monster’s hand to no purpose or use than even take a chance that we might, might, be aggresive and successful.

No blame attaches to these students, nor could it. Since they were off the teat they have supped on the pabulum of “violence is not the answer” and when parents, books and TV have taught docility, it is to be expected.

I blame Marlo Thomas for “Free to Be You and Me” and the whole equivical morality culture. “Fighting is wrong” they pronounce. “All people are good, just in different ways” they proclaim.

Crap.

32 people died and one monster self-destructed yesterday because these ideas and ideals have turned us into Whiffle-Ball people.

My apologies for ranting, and here endeth my contribution for the night.

Regards,

Uncle Pinky

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