But it will lead some to be intimidated - and foolish!

To those of us who have watched the liberal insanity of the past few years, it is almost a certainty that the response to today's tragic shootings in Ottawa Canada, regardless of the rhetoric to the contrary, will be cowering in fear and cries for disarmament.

Despite the strong words of the Canadian Prime Minister: "This will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts and those of our national security agencies to take all necessary steps to identify and counter threats" one can have little doubt that anti-self-defense forces will move quickly to condemn the gun that was used by this terrorist, not the individual involved.  We can safely bet that his religion will be absolved of all guilt in favor of blaming the tool he used in service of his ideology (of course they will not blame the car for the recent attack on two soldiers in Quebec). Guns are fair game, but ideology that devalues the life of all but its devotees is off-limits, untouchable.

Some will point to the tragic killing of a soldier at the War Memorial to suggest that an armed populace would not help prevent such attacks (it is not clear to me that this soldier was armed). However, it was clearly an armed "Sergeant-at Arms" that ended this siege on the Parliament building; a good guy with a gun! Imagine that!

Nonetheless, there will be those who call for new levels of gun control, using this event to forward their agenda in contradiction to the facts on the ground.  Once again, these people will fantasize that somehow a law that would forbid this terrorist from having a gun would make it so, would be more potent than the laws that forbid him from killing another.

Quite frankly, I and many others, would prefer the option to stand and fight over running and cowering. Don't get me wrong - those of you who prefer to be unarmed, to run and hide and pray that you are not a victim, are welcome to do so.  What you are not welcome to do, and I will not let you do, is disarm me so that I have no choice but to join you in your terror and helplessness. I would rather die defending myself and others than live knowing I did nothing. I could not live the years I have left, knowing that I survived by hiding while others died.

Some of us were born, bred and built to go out on our feet, not on our knees.