I wonder what an average American think about purchasing a gun to protect oneself? How about a single mom living with two kids? How about an old lady living by herself. Or maybe a young couple who are just about to settle down with their first jobs? Are these people comfortable having guns and using them?
I still think there is a better way to 'collectively' protect these vulnerable people than to arm them.
well, collectivists agree on one thing at a time. When they are in the majority they agree to have their way. When they are in the minority they agree to have their way anyway, if the majority will let them.
Franklin is bored with this stupidity. Collectivism under any name. . . socialism, communism, progressivism, whatever. . . . is the theory that minorities actually have no rights. Since collectivists believe they are a higher breed of human, they disparage the minorities so long as they have the majority, in their opinion, or for so long as the newspapers and media will honk their horn for them.
"Democracy is two wolves and sheep voting on what's for lunch. Liberty is some well-armed sheep.
I know you are not actually a free human, OL, the concept is unknown to you as a contented
subject of the Queen. Throughout the British Commonwealth there is a stable order in society, but it was achieved by the nobles putting a few hobbles on the King/Queen. The Magna Carta guarantees some basic human rights, and trials in courts before juries of their peers. But it is principally still standing, so far as it is, because the lesser nobles are protecting their own dominions through their seats in The House of Lords. Not elected officials there.
An actual free human with a sense of liberty expects to have a say in his government.
The elites would not give a damn about little people shooting one another, or some lunatic shooting up a little public gathering. The idea of reducing the population overburden on earth resources is a larger consideration today. The only reason they pay their media lapdogs to snarl about the shootings is because "Fortress America" is the biggest nuisance to their unfettered dominions over the whole earth.
They don't mind having armies with guns, or planes with bombs, or drones with bombs, are nuclear aircraft carriers or any other weapon of mass destruction. But a rag-tag populace with little pea shooters annoys the hell outta them.
I know a lot of pretty nice folks like OL are impressed with the pretended humanitarianism and the jacked-up statistics that say a gun buyback will make the world safe for elite governance. But the idea of superior management classes is repugnant to traditional. . . that is to say, "real" Americans, the Americans who hold individual liberty up as a higher value than a well-managed community. Human Liberty has a price: Tolerance of imperfection, respect for individual choice.
A lot of folks rely on guns for their safety. A hungry cougar in an isolated place is a threat to human life. A good dog will be some deterrent, two or three makes you pretty safe. But some people can't keep dogs, and they have a right to carry the weapon of their choice.
It is not something we can allow "collectivists" to regulate. It's none of your business.
