My WorldNetDaily “Technocracy” column this week concerns the Roderick Scott trial, which I analyzed previously in terms of what is wrong with the legal climate in this state.  For my weekly WND column, however, I approached the issue from the standpoint of the technology involved.  Firearms are force multipliers, a labor-saving technology that, as the saying goes, makes us all equal. When we forget the place of this technology in our lives — when we wrongly condemn it and those who legally avail themselves of it — we do all of society a disservice.

Until we, as a society, relearn that guns are tools, we will continue to put armed citizens like Roderick Scott on trial. Until we, as a people, remember that guns are technology – that they are neither good nor evil, possessing neither volition nor intent as inanimate objects – we will continue to uphold victimhood as morally preferable to using force in self-defense. Until we, as a society, stop vilifying law-abiding, productive members of society who take responsibility for the protection of their homes, their families and their property, we will continue contributing to the problem of crime in an increasingly out-of-control nation.

Read the entire column here at WorldNetDaily.