That the attacks of 9/11 were able to be successfully executed are being blamed on government’s failure — failure to interpret intelligence, failure of inter-agency cooperation, failure to keep known terrorists off the planes and more. But 9/11 was not so much a failure of intelligence as it was a failure of federal policy.
9/11 was just a balloon payment we made on the cost of gun control. The reality is this: where guns are most restricted, crime is highest. Where citizens right to bear arms is least restricted, crime is lowest. To the extent that government disarms citizens, we pay the cost in more violent crime.
We’ve been making our annual payments: a few hundred extra murders, rapes, robberies and other assorted violent crimes in multiple major cities of the U.S. each year. 9/11 was just more of the same, but on a larger scale.
Those planes were hijacked and crashed because we’ve been indoctrinated to cooperate with hijackers (muggers, robbers and others violating us) so as not to anger them, lest anyone get hurt. Policy holds all life, even the lives of violent criminals assaulting us, as so precious that using deadly force to defend ourselves is itself mostly criminal. We’ve become so “civilized” that we dare not defend civil behavior or even civilization itself. And look what it’s gotten us. The barbarians rule us. We cower in our homes, afraid to walk the streets at night.
Could 9/11 have possibly been any worse if everyone on those hijacked planes had been armed? Or even just everyone who wanted to be armed was? Those planes were hijacked and crashed because no one on them had guns with which to defend themselves. This is the result of the misbegotten policy of disarming people to make them ‘safer.’
We wouldn’t need security checkpoints and nail clipper confiscations if our right to bear arms was intact.