I am told that the statistics here in the States are pretty clear. When police forces end shooting and killing sprees, the average toll of dead is 14.3 people. When a private, armed citizen is the one who stops the killing, the death toll averages just 2.3.
We seem to have seen that happen this week in Indiana, when a 22-year-old man carrying concealed ended the would-be career of a mass murderer by killing him. Because the savior of perhaps as many as a dozen more people had his pistol with him, he put down another young man who came prepared to kill or wound dozens. So just three people (and a mad dog) died. The police showed up to manage the site. And for once, the police and others recognized and honored the man who was just doing what he thought he should do as a neighbor. “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the Son of God taught, was the second great command. On the media reporting it, he has been dubbed the “Good Samaritan after that story of Jesus.
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The Price of Liberty 
Killing us softly…
C. S. Lewis may have said it best: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Events of the last 2+ years prove the wisdom of his words. That little thing called coronavirus.
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