I get this is an incendiary post given what happened yesterday (18 killed in Lewiston Maine).

I was teaching in Israel when the Mercaz HaRav shooting occured in 2008. At the next staff meeting, the principal said to the teachers, “if you have them (meaning guns), wear them.” In Israel, every school is completely fenced in and already has an armed guard.

Every mall, every grocery store, also has an armed guard. I am not suggesting this should be the case here. We face different threats.

Maybe the biggest is our epidemic of mental illness. We might be able to treat those who need it, including the alleged Maine shooter, if we weren't so busy making more people sick.

Instead, we have replaced our religious and patriotic foundations with an ocean of lies.

People used to be embedded in families, in churches, in communities. These are now cast as oppressive patriarchal institutions.

People used to know their sex. Now we confuse them from the moment they watch their first Disney. (Thank You to Benjamin Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing for finally creating Bent Key to provide an alternative!)

Children are indoctrinated in a climate crisis, every human being, including them, being a burden on the planet.

Certain activists do their best to cast the family as outdated and oppressive, faculties of education very much among them.

Girls come to elite institutions of learning and compare their self-harm scars.

People who were once held to the standards of men are called college kids. In prior generations, they had jobs and families at 22.

The world that got us here has been turned upside down, for what?

So we are left with crazy. And sometimes the only thing you can do to protect yourself from crazy is to make sure you have what is necessary to defend yourself when crazy rears itself in your town, on your street, and it will.

I promise you crazy will not be stopped with another gun law, but sometimes it can be held at bay with a bullet, if you can get to your gun and are allowed to carry it where crazy shows up.