“I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800.
In (heart)breaking news out of Sydney, Australia today, a man with a knife, Joel Cauchi, slashed and murdered six innocent people – five women and a man – and injured nine others, including a baby, at the Westfield Bondi Junction Mall, before being shot dead by a police woman in uniform. This horrific incident demonstrates yet again the fact that good people with guns are the best defense against bad people who intend to do evil things.
Let’s just say it – a disarmed nation is an enslaved nation. Australia is an enslaved nation. Australians surrendered their God-given right of self-defense to government statists in 1996 when the socialist government responded to a shooting by trampling the people’s rights. Will they now move to ban knives? Obviously, guns are not the problem if an evil person can still murder six people and injure nine more with a knife.
Evil finds a way regardless of the law. It is delusion to believe that premeditated murderers care what the law says. They don’t pull out their copy of the laws and regulations of the nation before deciding whether to go murder people. “Oops, looks like I can’t use a semi-automatic rifle to murder that guy. Says so here in the law. Dang it!” No, criminals don’t care what the law says. They murder in spite of the law. They procure firearms regardless of what any law states. And when they can’t get firearms, they use other means, such as knives, to do their evil deeds.
On the other hand, generally decent people who obey the law find themselves at a disadvantage and are totally helpless in the face of an armed assailant. One man in today’s attack can be seen trying to fend off the knife-wielding assassin on an escalator with some type of post, stand, or other piece of furniture. A gun would have dispatched the crazed murderer to his Eternal Judge much more effectively.
If a single person at Bondi Junction had been armed, they would not have had to wait for a police woman to run across the mall to finally eliminate the killer. Enslaved people, however, are dependent upon their governments which rule over them and which more often than not fail to defend them. Despotic governments don’t truly care about people; if they did, they wouldn’t destroy their God-given rights or prevent them from defending themselves.
Be honest, quickly citing the law to an armed assailant bent on violence won’t save good people. Reminding them that they are in a “gun-free zone” won’t suddenly snap them out of their fury. Only “equalizers,” as guns are often called, give good people the chance to defend themselves. It was an officer with a gun who ended the rampage at Bondi Junction today. The gun was a tool in the hands of a good person to do a good deed and save lives. To deprive people of their natural right to defend themselves – with guns, clubs, swords, bazookas, mace, whatever – is dastardly and wicked.
Gun-grabbers live in a fantasy world fed by delusion and false hope instilled by fear and emotionalism. Somehow, they believe that disarming everyone will prevent murder; as if murder did not exist before the invention of firearms! If only gun control would have existed, Cain would not have murdered poor Abel. If only we would outlaw murder! The truth is, it doesn’t matter how strict your gun laws are, evil people will do evil things.
“But if this psychopath would have had a gun, he could have killed even more than six!” one might protest. Maybe. But if the good people around him – his intended victims – were also armed, he could have been stopped almost immediately.
About two million times each year, Americans use firearms in self-defense. This includes women fending off rapists, fathers protecting their homes from home invaders, church goers protecting their congregations from psychopaths, and so forth. The malevolent people who advocate gun control would rather have these two million people be victims – raped, robbed, murdered victims. They want us helpless, defenseless, and servile.
David Hogg and the rest of the lunatic gun-grabbers don’t give a damn about your God-given rights. They spit on your Freedom, curse the Constitution, and despise independent people who defend themselves and their families. Don’t believe their falsely noble words – they are actually on the side of the rapists, robbers, and murderers; they are their enablers. They are on the side of big government and promote the total domination of your life by the state. If innocent people die in the process of seizing total control, so much the better for their tireless propaganda which seeks to “fatigue us into compliance,” a term used by Thomas Jefferson, whose birthday happens to be today, April 13, to describe how the despotic King George III attempted to enslave America.
The news has reported that another tyrannical monarch, King Charles, is “utterly shocked and horrified” by today’s mass murder. Yet, the most utterly shocking and horrifying thing is the evil and depravity of totalitarians like Charles who wish to disarm others and make them defenseless. They are the people who enabled the murder of Ashlee Good and five others at Bondi Junction by infringing upon their natural right of self-defense and leaving them helpless. The blood of these six slaughtered individuals is on the hands of the government despots who abolished the Australian people’s right of self-defense, and those among the people who timidly supported acquiesced in the tyranny.
One of the victims of the knife attack who was fatally stabbed is gaining more publicity than the others, and for good reason. 38-year-old Ashlee Good was a mother pushing her nine-month-old daughter in a stroller when the knife-wielding murderer appeared and stabbed the baby before turning the knife on Ashlee. She later died of her wounds in the hospital, but not before handing her bleeding baby off to strangers and begging for them to help her precious little child.
Mothers are often compared with mama bears when their children are threatened. Imagine what Ashlee Good could have done had she been armed per her God-given right. She could have ended the murderous rampage then and there, and probably saved her own life. Now, her nine-month-old child, baby Harriet, assuming she survives her own injuries, will grow up without her mother – an absolute tragedy; a totally avoidable and unnecessary tragedy. Where are all the feminists championing women’s rights to be armed in self-defense?
It was a woman with a gun, however, that finally ended the stabbings. It was a police woman who had to run from another location to the heartbreaking scene. She used a gun – that object most hated by tyrants and state-worshipers – to perform her act of saving others. I say again, imagine what Ashlee Good or any of the other victims could have done with a firearm. I guarantee their families at this moment wish their deceased loved ones had been armed.
Many people will remember the movie Crocodile Dundee. Few, however, know the real Australian the character was based on and how he died. His name was Rodney Ansell and he refused to comply with the tyrannical order to surrender his firearms. He therefore fired at police who came to his property, he believed, to confiscate his weapons, killing one. As a result, he was murdered. Ironic, is it not, that a man was murdered by police for not following a law that was supposed to prevent murder?
Gun control, of course, is not about stopping murder, but about controlling you and preventing society from resisting tyranny. It has been the tactic of tyrants throughout history to disarm their subjects before tyrannizing them. From the Sword Hunts of Japan to the confiscations in Soviet Russia, Maoist China, the UK, and Australia, evil regimes have always sought to prevent those they intend to oppress from resisting. It is basic criminal psychology – criminals always seek to disarm and subdue their victims before victimizing them.
Despite the documented and common-sense fact that relaxed gun laws decrease crime by enabling would-be victims to defend themselves, thus preventing a large quantity of criminal activity, those who seek to enslave and dominate you promote tyrannical laws with tear-jerking slogans and pictures of stories of murdered kids. In reality, stories of murdered children and good mothers like Ashlee Good should make us more committed to rebuff despots and retain our God-given right of self-defense. We should want to go out and purchase a firearm, not give them up.
That is really the key – it is not a privilege to own weapons and defend ourselves, it is an inalienable right. Inalienable rights, by definition, cannot be stripped from us by government since they were not given to us by government. Government, in fact, was created for the sole purpose of defending and safeguarding inalienable rights. The American Founding Fathers understood this basic human fact and codified for all time and all peoples the rationale any nation may use to free themselves and overthrow their oppressors. In the Declaration of Independence, they proclaimed:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Our rights come from God, not government. Government is designed to protect our God-given rights. When government fails to protect them, or when government infringes upon them, it is the “Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” Not only is it the People’s right, it is their “duty, to throw off such Government.” This is not an American right; it is a human right. The people of Australia may invoke it at any time. The people of China, Russia, South Africa, Iran, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, North Korea, Britain, and every other oppressed people, have a God-given right and duty to throw off and abolish tyranny. May they do so sooner than later unless the wish to continue to be abused, dehumanized, enslaved, and live helpless, defenseless, servile lives.
To close, I give you six additional reasons why Australians, and all of us, must demand our God-given right of self-defense be held sacrosanct, and resist any attempt to document, register, track, or take our firearms and our inalienable right of self-defense. The six reasons are the six slaughtered victims of today’s heinous murder. They were victims not only of a killer’s blade, but of their government’s dastardly tyranny and the cowardice of those who support such tyranny.
Though most other nations have surrendered their Liberty and allowed themselves to be disarmed and neutered, tens of millions of Americans will die before being disarmed; I among them. If you care one wit about our collective Freedom, you will join us and swear upon the altar of God eternal hostility against any form of tyranny, especially any form of tyranny that attempts to make us helpless and slavish, disarm us, and strip us of our rights which are sacred gifts of God.
Zack Strong
April 13, 2024
The American Citadel 