Badnarik for Congress

Michael Badnarik still fights as a member of the Libertarian Party after a heroic effort in 2004 which included getting arrested with Green Party candidate David Cobb. He knew that he needed to gain exposure, and he did it. He knew that two third parties working together would benefit both, and it did.

Most of all he knows how the Government should be run. Of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a small segment from his seven hour class on Constitutional Law Class. Which you can get online for free here.

This is what the Libertarian Party needs to do. Get exposure, get into the public eye, and tell people what a Libertarian is. That is how we can gain more votes and more power in elections now and into the future. Vote Libertarian for this purpose, run as a Libertarian for this purpose no matter how small a position.

Follow the model set by Mr. Badnarik. Vote for Liberty on Tuesday.

Of course there are other options

On the topic of school shootings, it seems that a different approach to the issue from a GOP nominee for State Superintendent of Education. In Oklahoma. Bill Crozier’s brilliant idea involves training students to use, of all things, their own text books to shield themselves from gunfire. He sent a video to the press showing himself with an AK-47 and a 9mm testing his plan on thick textbooks in an open field.

Two Text books failed to stop the AK round, a testament to Russian engineering indeed. A single book did stop the 9mm.

The idea is, of course, absurd. There is no way that a text book could protect someone from an armed opponent. Stopping a bullet doesn’t really help when the book is 11”by 9”.

At the very least, people are making an effort.

 

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School Shootings, what can we do?

 

 

The increase in school shootings over the past few weeks, which oddly comes at the same time as election season, raises questions that should have been answered years ago during the Columbine shootings. How can we protect targets of school shootings?

I’ve been though the drills myself, for the most part they are complete bullshit. The drill at my high school was that you kill the lights, and hide in a corner where you couldn’t see into the classroom from the window on the door. On paper it sounds like a wonderful idea, but the problems I had with such a tactic were:

 

1. Unless the shooter is an outsider, they will know this procedure. A student would take advantage of the situation too increase the number of kills they could get off.

2. Anyone not inside a classroom, or unable to get into a classroom, would be trapped outside with no way in. He would, of course, be a prime target.

3. Related to the second point, the shooter could duck and hide inside a classroom, where he would take cover with that group, and easily kill them in a sneak attack.

 

Of course all those fears would be debunked if the person decided to fire shots into a crowed hallway, instead of attack a single classroom and then be locked out of the others.

 

What is being presented now is a movement to arm teachers and teach students self-defense. Giving teachers guns is the more radical approach, but the better option that has most people support is to train students how to react to a gunman. By tossing books, book bags, and chairs at him, over powering him, and stopping him from doing damage.

Which ever way you support, the end result is the same. Preventing deaths by allowing the potential victims to take the responsibility into their own hands, not only stopping the a gunman from doing harm to the person who takes up that responsibility, but also stopping him from doing any harm to others.

At $15 a student, the price seems far worth it. But a gun in every classroom, while less cost effective (which leads to more wasted tax dollars) will perhaps turn off anyone from even trying to commit the act in the first place.

 

Two good articles on the topic:

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