The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
NY Times: Shooting First--and Missing the Target
The hyper-partisan New York Times never misses an opportunity to go after liberal right to carry laws. That goes without saying. But one would think that, when they do go to the trouble to assail another State's right to conduct their own affairs as they see fit, the least the Times could do is to identify the proper culprit when things go horribly wrong.
Just guessing, but I would imagine that if the woman writing that story were at home alone at four in the morning, and an enraged man was trying to break down her door--given the choice as to whether to allow herself to be possibly raped or killed, or to be allowed to have a way to prevent that, she just might just opt for the latter. And she would be justified in that belief. Yet it would seem that she and the NY Times would prefer to other citizens become latter day victims of the mean streets and a violent society, rather than to have the means to defend themselves.
I have seen Carter Albrecht perform--we operated in similar circles and I actually hung out at the beer joint where he and his roommate used to go back in my single days; he seemed to be a genuinely good guy. His death has definitely shaken the music community in Dallas. I am personally sorry he is no longer with us. He was universally well liked and universally respected for his superb musicianship. His death is tragic because in normal circumstances, he is unlikely to have done any serious harm to the elderly man in question. But we will never know for sure because his alleged frame of mind at the time clearly made him appear to be a threat to his neighbor's home and family in the dead of night.
But equally tragic--yet sadly, par for the course--is the NY Times use of Albrecht's untimely death to further its "Imagine there's no heaven"/"We Are the World" political agenda. Maybe John Lennon thought there was nothing to live or die for, but my guess is that many husbands and wives and fathers and mothers would beg to differ... Maybe one day, if enough people understand that to break into a home in the middle of the night is to put one's life in danger, there will be a lot more peace, and a lot fewer break-ins.
The biggest tragedy in this incident is that no one was able to save Carter Albrecht from his own demons that night. But I feel certain that the man on the other side of the door that Albrecht was trying to kick down thought that his terrified wife might just be worth saving, too. Mine sure as hell is, and I will do whatever I have to do to protect her. So I can't really fault the neighbor. And for the uppity leftist NY Times to do so on the back of this man's death is about as disgusting as it gets.
R.I.P., Carter. We'll miss you.
Just guessing, but I would imagine that if the woman writing that story were at home alone at four in the morning, and an enraged man was trying to break down her door--given the choice as to whether to allow herself to be possibly raped or killed, or to be allowed to have a way to prevent that, she just might just opt for the latter. And she would be justified in that belief. Yet it would seem that she and the NY Times would prefer to other citizens become latter day victims of the mean streets and a violent society, rather than to have the means to defend themselves.
I have seen Carter Albrecht perform--we operated in similar circles and I actually hung out at the beer joint where he and his roommate used to go back in my single days; he seemed to be a genuinely good guy. His death has definitely shaken the music community in Dallas. I am personally sorry he is no longer with us. He was universally well liked and universally respected for his superb musicianship. His death is tragic because in normal circumstances, he is unlikely to have done any serious harm to the elderly man in question. But we will never know for sure because his alleged frame of mind at the time clearly made him appear to be a threat to his neighbor's home and family in the dead of night.
But equally tragic--yet sadly, par for the course--is the NY Times use of Albrecht's untimely death to further its "Imagine there's no heaven"/"We Are the World" political agenda. Maybe John Lennon thought there was nothing to live or die for, but my guess is that many husbands and wives and fathers and mothers would beg to differ... Maybe one day, if enough people understand that to break into a home in the middle of the night is to put one's life in danger, there will be a lot more peace, and a lot fewer break-ins.
The biggest tragedy in this incident is that no one was able to save Carter Albrecht from his own demons that night. But I feel certain that the man on the other side of the door that Albrecht was trying to kick down thought that his terrified wife might just be worth saving, too. Mine sure as hell is, and I will do whatever I have to do to protect her. So I can't really fault the neighbor. And for the uppity leftist NY Times to do so on the back of this man's death is about as disgusting as it gets.
R.I.P., Carter. We'll miss you.
Labels: Carry Laws, Right to Bear Arms
