“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ~ Frederic Bastiat
To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless.
The Left just has a fundamental problem with “evil”. They don’t think it exists. This is a big reason they hate Christianity, since Christianity is very big on the concept of “right and wrong”. The Left feels threatened by such things. Just yesterday there was a thread here about a journalist who had a problem with JRR Tolkien and his depiction of Orcs as “evil”. For the journalist, this was just pure racism and totally unPC. Orcs are not “evil”, they are just misunderstood.
If there is no “evil” then no one needs a gun. Simple, eh?
There is no guarantee a good guy with a gun can save the day, but there is an absolute guarantee a bad guy with a gun will have his way without one.
Because they’re more smarter than us?
People that think that being defenseless is being safe are not worth arguing with. I often wonder why they would choose to be defenseless, yet they wear a seat-belt in their car... that makes no sense to me.
Don't waste time arguing, just tell them to get lost.
Another reason for 2A is to protect against tyranny.
Few, if any, point out that virtually every country in history that enslaved their people first disarmed them.
The ability to protect you and yours is a legitimate argument, but loss of liberty should be mighty compelling as well.
There is only one thing that works with zombies.
bkmk
This, I think, is the reason that Trump has zeroed in on Liawatha. The libs can't support her cultural appropriation for fear of losing the support of Native Americans. At the same time the libs can't condemn her for fear of offending all those who "identify" as women, witches, or frogs.
Every tyrant wants disarmed subjects.
Study: Concealed carry firearms owners have a 94% success rate stopping potential mass shooters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3708768/posts
Of course, the Leftists could care less since this does not line up with their ultimate goal of disarming the law abiding populace (criminals will always have a way to get guns).
It is easy. You don’t need to read the long winded article to find the answer.
Democrats/leftists/totalitarians want no possible resistance to their planned tyranny. A disarmed populace is a helpless populace. Therefore their number one priority is disarming the law abiding. Democrats couldn’t care less about crime, mass murders (except for their press arm the MSM to exploit them) your safety, my safety etc. they just want you to be unable to resist them and their beloved thugs in blue.
They just want a pre-excuse in place, in case they want to do something evil, themselves.
I’m not persuaded by the overall argument (seems on the right track, but still trying to nail down the core point).
However, this bit is brilliant:
“redistribution of personal responsibility”
That may very well nail the point right there.
There are bad guys. Really bad guys. They have too much bad.
So...
Redistribute it. Spread the bad around (seems an acceptable outcome for the Left’s economics, may as well do it with morality).
You (dear reader) are a good guy, with a gun. Good enough you could be trusted with an M16 in an orphanage. You don’t have enough bad in you (relative to “bad guy with a gun”), so you get some mass-murderer’s abundance of evil spread to you for the purpose of flattening out that distribution of evil to some uniform low point (as though it can’t be eliminated, just lowered to average).
Now ... you’re a bad guy, with a gun.
And since, by redistributing personal responsibility, you’re a bad guy with a gun, you must be disarmed of that gun.
Oh, but the “everyone is a little bad” Leftist with a gun? well, he has a gun for the right Leftist-approved reasons, so his redistributed bad is overlooked, so he’s not _really_ a “bad guy with a gun” under the circumstances (just like Michael Moore is a rich white guy with armed guards, but since he’s serving the Revolution it’s OK).
So there we go.
Money is evil, and having lots of money is evil, but since a Leftist axiom is “wealth is constant” then all money must be redistributed among everyone (except those who serve the Revolution exceptionally well, they can be rich).
Evil is ... well ... evil, and being really evil is evil, but since a (newly discovered) Leftist axiom is “evil is constant” then all evil must be redistributed among everyone (except in service to the Revolution, then evil isn’t an issue).
And since everyone now is assigned the same level of evil, anyone with a gun is, well, a bad guy with a gun and thus must be disarmed (except in service to the Revolution).
Clarifies it to me. Given the axiomatic imperative “everyone is equal”, then ... everyone is equally evil, which means if you’re a man with a gun then you’re a bad man with a gun and thus must be disarmed (service to the Revolution excepted). Hence Leftists cannot conceive of the notion that “good man with a gun” exists.
In my humble opinion, the 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution should be inviolable. The reason for this is, when the country was debating whether to adopt it or not, the Anti-Federalist group would not agree to it unless certain protections were included. So, we would not have a Constitution were it not for the promise, and eventual passage, of the Bill of Rights. And without a Constitution, we would not have These United States.
As I’ve stated in the past. Even if they disarm every law abiding citizen in the US, one question the Democrats will never answer is how they will keep illegal guns, like illegal drugs and aliens, from flooding across the borders
“If you are white, male, Christian, or God-forbid, a Republican, you are already guilty without having done anything at all. If you dare to own a gun, you are de facto guilty. It doesn’t matter what choices you make. The Left does not consider this to be prejudice as long as the right people are pre-judged. They argue that they can perfect the world and our behavior by creating a “correct” society which they will define for us. We are merely spokes in their socialist utopian wheel.”
Oh, yeah, that’s right, I heard about it from my family - my immigrant family of 2-3 generations ago, who warned us about Socialists of various stripes (specifically, Russian and German stripes, usually wearing uniforms and always pretending to know what was best for everyone else).
Yeah, well, F^&# that noise: this Jew, whose family was horribly victimized by German and Russian socialists in the last century, is not about to have his family victimized AGAIN by socialists (this time American ones). But if we are victimized again, it certainly isn’t going to be for free, not THIS time.
That there is solid gold!