BY DR. BEN CARSON, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
For the past few years, the Second Amendment rights of all U.S. citizens have been under attack by gun control lobbyists, who would see America stripped of all it’s means to protect its citizens. But proponents of gun control seem to forget that sometimes, you have to fight firearms with more firearms and stand your ground.
In fact, one of the greatest tragedies in recorded history, the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction could have been prevented if the prehistoric life of the period it killed had been armed.
I’m not saying these dinosaurs would’ve had guns, given the technical impossibility of that. But if the dinosaurs had been equipped with really big sticks or some kind of slingshot, they could have redirected the asteroid that theoretically claimed their lives.
But as the dinosaurs did not have these weapons (or were at least prevented from using them by the administration) 75% of Earth’s life forms lost their lives that day.
If things had gone differently, if these dinosaurs had fought back against the astronomical phenomenon that threatened them, they would still be alive today, and the gunmen that threaten our schools and other public places would never have evolved.
This is not an isolated case. In the past decade, The United States has faced horrible events that could have been prevented if citizens were not constricted by gun control laws. Hurricane Katrina, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Ebola virus outbreak are just a few examples.
This election season, vote for the candidate who understands that the best defense is a ludicrous amount of offense. And remember, guns didn’t kill the dinosaurs, their lack of guns did.
