Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 22, 2010

The civic authorities who misgovern Providence, Rhode Island recently conducted a Christmastime Toy Gun Bash.

Prodded, hectored, and brow-beaten by local politicians and the parents foolish enough to do their bidding, children were forced to line up and feed their toy guns into the maw of the ?Bash-O-Matic,? a device described by the Boston Globe as ?a large, black, foam creature with churning metal teeth and the shape of a cockroach spliced with a frog.?

A ritual of this kind could be considered a child?s first communion in the government-sponsored church of collectivist self-destruction. Its purpose is to indoctrinate children in the idea that only agents of officially sanctioned lethal violence ? such as police and the military ? should be permitted to possess firearms and other weapons.

Children should learn what happened in places like Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda when people willingly surrendered their guns to their rulers ? but a government school classroom is no place for lessons of that kind.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.