Guns, Guns, Guns Daniel Greenfield Saturday, December 15, 2012
" . . . The issue isn't really guns. Guns are how we misspell evil. Guns are how we avoid talking about the ugly realities of human nature while building sandcastles on the shores of utopia . . . The gun issue is the narrative. It's not about death or children; it's about control. It's about confusing object and subject. . . . Mostly it's about people who are sheltered from the realities of human nature trying to build a shelter big enough for everyone. A Gun Free Zone where everyone is a target and tries to live under the illusion that they aren't. A society where everyone is drawing unicorns on colored notepaper while waiting under their desks for the bomb to fall. . . . But evil just can't be controlled. Not with the sort of zero tolerance policies that confuse object with subject, which ban pocket knives and finger shootings to prevent real shootings. . . . Moral agency is individual. You can't outsource it to a government and you wouldn't want to. The bundle of impulses, the codes of character, the concepts of right and wrong, take place at the level of the individual. Organizations do not sanctify this process. They do not lift it above its fallacies, nor do they even do a very good job of keeping sociopaths and murderers from rising high enough to give orders . . . Gun control will not really control guns, but it will give the illusion of controlling people, and even when it fails those in authority will be able to say that they did everything that they could short of giving people the ability to defend themselves.
We live under the rule of organizers, community and otherwise, whose great faith is that the power to control men and their environment will allow them to shape their perfect state into being, and the violent acts of lone madmen are a reminder that such control is fleeting, that utopia has its tigers, and that attempting to control a problem often makes it worse by removing the natural human crowdsourced responses that would otherwise come into play. . . . People do kill people and the only way to stop people from killing people is by killing them first. To a utopian this is a moral paradox that invalidates everything, but to everyone else, it's just life in a world where evil is a reality, not just a word. . . . The question is the old elemental one about government control and individual agency. And tragedies like the one that just happened take us back to the equally old question of whether individual liberty is a better defense against human evil than the entrenched organizations of government.
Do we want a society run by the flower of chivalry, who commit atrocities according to a plan for a better society, or by peasants with machine guns? The flower of chivalry can promise us a utopian world without evil, but the peasant with a machine gun promises us that we can protect ourselves from evil when it comes calling. . . . It isn't really guns that the gun controllers are afraid of, it's a country where individual agency is still superior to organized control, . . . An occasional peasant may go on a killing spree, but a society where the peasants are all armed is also far more able to stop such a thing without waiting for the men-at-arms to be dispatched from the castle . . . . "
ZitatIt isn't really guns that the gun controllers are afraid of, it's a country where individual agency is still superior to organized control, . . . An occasional peasant may go on a killing spree, but a society where the peasants are all armed is also far more able to stop such a thing without waiting for the men-at-arms to be dispatched from the castle . . . . "
So, so true!! God protect us all. I feel government tentacles coming around us, ready to snatch away our 2nd Amendment rights at any time.
For thousands of years all men went armed, unless you were a slave. In that time you had just as many if not more mental cases, however, they knew well once they pulled the sword dozens would be pulled against them and a pike up the rear is not a pleasent way to die.
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"Which of these signs will prevent another tragedy?"
"All weapons prohibited on these premises" (picture of gun with red line through it)
"Staff heavily armed and trained - Any attempt to harm children will be met with deadly force" (picture of figure pointing gun)
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Quote: ozarkian wrote in post #5Wish I knew how to post pictures - I'll learn but I really like this
"Which of these signs will prevent another tragedy?"
"All weapons prohibited on these premises" (picture of gun with red line through it)
"Staff heavily armed and trained - Any attempt to harm children will be met with deadly force" (picture of figure pointing gun)
One of the thoughts crowding my head Friday and Saturday was how many lives could have been saved if the school were not a gun free zone.
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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #1Guns, Guns, Guns Daniel Greenfield Saturday, December 15, 2012
" . . . The issue isn't really guns. Guns are how we misspell evil. Guns are how we avoid talking about the ugly realities of human nature while building sandcastles on the shores of utopia . . .
That is so true, from what Fox news just reported, police said gunman turned gun on himself when he knew police were closing in.
And the next line about control - also true because as long as the guy had control, he continued to shoot the kids, the minute he knew the police were closing in - the control no longer belonged to him - the police were taking over and so he killed himself.
When I was a kid you could order guns out of magazines, wwii weapons were 10 and 15 dollars each, full auto had a lead plug in the barrels. But still cost nothing. But back then we had something called the insane asylum and we puts the nuts there and not at home.
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