Sheriff Had No Duty To Protect Parkland Students

A U. S. District Judge, Beth Bloom has ruled, as all Federal judges and justices have ruled, that Sheriff's Deputy Had No Duty to Protect Parkland Students. Ton Knighton has the article at Bearing Arms. It is disgusting, but it is the way it is. Knighton writes:

Unfortunately, the law requires these potential victims to be disarmed. It makes it impossible for them to defend themselves from an attack, even while the state has absolved itself of any responsibility to protect those they’ve disarmed. Frankly, it’s disgusting.

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You and yours are the only ones you can trust to protect you. If school children and teachers who are barred from carrying a gun on government property aren’t going to be protected, there’s no way you’re going to be. For some of us, this is the reality we’ve understood for quite some time. That’s why we have guns. That’s why we carry guns. That’s why we train with them. It’s also why we become so belligerent when some anti-gunner starts screaming bloody murder about how our guns somehow make them unsafe. No, they don’t. My disarmament will make me unsafe.

Tom Knighton typically writes short posts on gun topics, so go to the site and read the whole thing.

Knghton touches ever so briefly on the morality of the issue. You can find more about that in the book A Nation of Cowards by Jeffery Snyder, now out of print but still available on Amazon. Is it moral to demand that someone else sacrifice his life for yours? Answer, no. Thus the Judge's ruling is correct. However, if that is the case, does the State have the moral right to mandate defenselessness under these circumstances? Answer, no, it does not. That is the basis then of the Second Amendment.  The State either must protect each and every citizen, a clearly impossible task, or it must allow its citizens to arm themselves for protection.