I spent some time out on the range today. It's a great place to clear my mind. I spent time thinking about that fateful day 22 years ago when everything changed. After avoiding the devastation of two World Wars, America learned in a single morning that oceans are no longer enough to protect us in a globalized world. Maybe if we had sealed our borders, the hijackers couldn't have carried out their plans. Instead, the Twin Towers came down (and Building 7), the Pentagon was hit, and we watched fighters head north out of Andrews before a fourth plane went down in Shanksville. So much has changed since then. We exchanged our sense of security for the Patriot Act, fought a war in Iraq over non-existent weapons of mass destruction even though the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and we've watched a continuous assault on our Constitutionally enumerated rights of privacy and free speech ever since.
But my mind kept drifting to the current situation in New Mexico. The Governor has suspended the 2nd Amendment for 30 days because she claims violent crime has made Albuquerque too dangerous. She is taking away the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves in a city she's personally declared unsafe. That doesn't make any sense. If she was worth her salt, she would order law-abiding citizens authorized for concealed carry to report to the nearest sheriff's office ... to be deputized and deployed on the streets until the city is safe again. New Mexico's patriots are protesting, and law enforcement says it won't enforce the executive order. America watches and waits.
There are a lot of people alive today who were born after September 11th, 2001. They have only experienced the world they've lived in. They will never fully understand what America lost on that day. It's up to us old folks to teach them what we remember while we still can. It's been almost six years since I've posted to my blog. Today seemed like a good day to make an entry.

