Proof.

This week we Americans once again were forced to stare into the cold face of evil. Call it "insanity", call it "disturbed", call it whatever you will, but the massacre at Virginia Tech was perpetrated by evil, pure and simple. "Evil" is not a popular word these days, mostly because we're too politically correct now to differentiate between good and evil. People who do bad things aren't "evil", they're "disturbed". Bullsh*t. Evil exists, we see it on television, we read about it in blogs and newspapers every day. We don't like to believe that there's evil because evil can't be cured. It can't be explained away with psychobabble. It simply is what it is.

In the aftermath of an act so heinous, so unfathomable, we're forced to listen to thousands of knee-jerk, politicized excuses and solutions to such a problem. To be sure there are advancements that can be made in alerting students, or teachers, or employees, or whomever, that something is wrong. It would be irresponsible to not explore new methods in this field. However, it does not negate the fact that evil exists and that it will, at will, attempt to harm others.

So what to do? Ban guns? To paraphrase a famous quote, when having a gun is criminal only criminals will have guns. It is a basic right of this nation for a citizen to arm themselves for protection. But lets say that we do ban guns...what happens to the 250,000,000 guns we already have? Do you think everyone will turn them in? To believe that you would have to be dense, or pathetically naive. Such an act would strengthen criminals, and make criminals of normally law-abiding citizens. I could march out statistics that state things about how criminals fear armed citizens, about how guns kill fewer children than swimming pools every year, and so on. But honestly, you either believe in them or you don't. You either believe that a common citizen is responsible and intelligent enough to own a weapon, or you don't. I happen to believe that owning a firearm just makes sense. Criminals are armed, why on Earth wouldn't I be? When I played football I didn't show up to a game in shorts and flip-flops while the other team is in full pads...to do so would mean certain defeat. The stakes when you pit an unarmed civilian with an armed criminal are much higher than that.

The bottom line is this: Whether we have guns, sticks, knives, rocks, or just bare fists evil will find a way to harm people if it so desires. Granted, a fist cannot compare to the carnage that a semi-automatic pistol can produce, but would it if another person could defend themselves against it in kind? "Mutual destruction" is a powerful deterrent. If I plan on robbing someone and I find out that they have as much firepower as I do, I'm not going to rob that person. Evil, determined though it may be, isn't stupid.

The events at Virginia Tech sadden and infuriate us all. Such senseless loss of life has that effect on good people. My suggestion is don't try to rationalize the irrational. Cho was evil. His whimpering, pathetic, explicative-laced "manifesto" is trash; an attempt at rationalizing his own marginal existence. He will be forgotten. His victims will not.

May The Lord be with those who have suffered from this cowardly act.

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