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THE 2006 HERO OF THE YEAR

Jeff May is an Ojibwe Indian from Minnesota. Readers Digest named him
the 2006 Hero of the Year. I had never heard of Jeff May until I
opened a letter from a listener yesterday. My guess is that you have
never heard of him either.

Here's the story.

About two years ago a young male wearing a black trench coat walked
into the Red Lake Senior High School in northern Minnesota. He was
carrying not one, not two, but three guns. He started shooting and
killed eight people, injuring
seven more .... then Jeff May took action. A teacher? No ... Jeff May
was a
sophomore at Red Lake. Sixteen years old, perhaps 15. (Can't nail down
his exact age). Jeff was doing algebra problems with a pencil when the
shooter entered his classroom. After May saw what was happening he
rushed the gunman ...
armed only with the pencil. He stabbed the shooter in the side with
the pencil and the two started struggling. Jeff May was shot in the
face. By this time
the police showed up, and the shooter killed himself. Jeff May's
teacher, Missy Dodds, says he saved many of his classmates lives, and
hers. Other news reports put the number of lives that Jeff May saved
at a dozen. After the incident he spent a lengthy time in physical,
occupational and speech therapy for
his injuries.

Was Jeff May a hot-shot student athlete at Red Lake? Not known. His
pictures show him to be a slightly pudgy teenager. What you can't see
in those pictures is a heart the size of a basketball.

Can you folks imagine this? Nothing like this could ever happen, right?
Someone walks into a classroom blazing away with multiple guns, and a
student -- a 16-year-old -- rushes him with a pencil? No .. this just
has to be a work of
Hollywood fiction. No teenager could possibly ever show such bravery.

But it's not, and he did.

What happened here? Hard to say. Maybe Jeff May was raised in a culture
where self-defense was praised rather than condemned. Maybe he was
raised in a home with a strong father. Maybe his Ojimwe culture
celebrates individualism.

Another question: Why haven't I heard of Jeff May before yesterday? We
certainly get all of the gory details from every school shooting, and
this Red Lake shooting in 2005 had been the worst since Columbine. Why
wasn't Jeff May celebrated across this country? is it possible because
his actions are politically incorrect in our current culture of
government dependency?

And why is the idea of self-defense so unpopular with the left? Why,
when someone acts to save their own life and the lives of others, do
we invariably get some public official or politician warning us about
the dangers of "taking the law into our own hands?"

Remember, please, the leftist war against individualism. Self-defense
is a uniquely individualist pursuit. There you are, an individual
person, using deadly force to protect ... yourself! Don't you know
that in this age of big-government that this is a job for the police!

About 20 legislators in South Carolina have now introduced legislation
that would allow anyone in South Carolina with a concealed weapons
permit to carry that weapon on a government school or college campus.
The only other state in
the union with such a law is Utah. Get this passed in South Carolina
and you will make South Carolina school grounds among the safest in
the nation.
Liberals, however, are going to scream bloody murder. They will fight
tooth and nail to defeat this measure .. and my guess is that they'll
probably succeed.

Why is it that liberals hate the idea of an armed citizen so much? They
can read the statistics just like we can. If they care to research the
matter, they will learn that people with concealed carry permits
simply do not commit gun crimes! So, the liberal opposition to
citizens carrying guns simply cannot be excused over fears for general
public safety. The facts simply don't bear those fears out. There has
to be something else at work here, and there is. Liberals don't like
armed individuals because they are .... individuals. Carrying a gun
for self-defense is, as I said, a uniquely individual pursuit. It's
a loud statement by an individual citizen saying "I own my life, and I
have the right to take deadly action to defend it." The liberal
believes that your life belongs to government, and that it is the
government's job to protect it.

Thank God Jeff May didn't buy it.