As we get closer to the Christmas holiday, even the news cycle slows just a bit. So, it wasn't totally surprising to see that someone else noticed Kurt Schlichter's article at Townhall entitled Buy Your Kids Toy Guns This Christmas. In this case, it was Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms who noticed, and wrote his own analysis of the piece entitled Schlichter Is Right: Buy Your Kids Toy Guns for Christmas.
In his essay, Knighton quotes from Schlichter's piece extensively because Schlichter is, of course, eminently quotable. Interestingly he doesn't disagrees with Schlichter's point that the gun-grabbers do not think they will have to face the consequences of their actions. They think their kids will not have to carry a rifle in defense of themselves or their country. Maybe not, but I wouldn't bet the kids future on it. In the Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 is this:
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
The world is a dangerous place. You can wish it was otherwise, but those are the facts. Adults know this and prepare themselves accordingly. We have the luxury of living in a mostly peaceful country because rough men are willing to go and do things we may not want to think about. I pray every day that I won't have to use my gun except to punch holes in paper targets. But we should all be prepared to do what is necessary at a moments notice. If I could be granted one wish for Christmas, it would be that we all would wake up.
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