Imagine a World without Guns

NRO ^ | 5 Dec 2001 | Kopel, Eisen, Gallant

[stlrocket]

The first gun here is for McCain and the second for the rest of us.

READY - AIM - FIRE

911 VS 357

[Texbob]

Yeah, no guns would mean the return of Bows and arrows, sabers, knives, sling shot like David used to slay the giant or as the Mother in Houston did, use the bath tub to kill her children. GUNS DO NOT KILL, PEOPLE DO. The gun cannot fire itself. Liberals lack any common sense, they are in a dream world.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Bump for an excellent piece. My only slight gripe to some of the responses is the use of the word "liberal" in reference to people who seek to empower the government to ban firearm ownership among citizens.

Such people are most decidedly not liberal, in any sense of the word, however much they might like to think of themselves that way.

They are authoritarians.

[Flint]

We can begin by imagining the enactment of laws which ban all non-government possession of firearms.

That's not a world without guns. From this point on the whole article is a bunch of BS.

[Teacher317]

A world without guns! HAHAHAHA! We could take over with a butter knife and a pointy stick! HAHAHAHA!

Or, to quote Kodos, "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"

[Britton J Wingfield]

When I was 11 or 12, I made my own muzzle-loader from a weightlifting tube, loaded with match heads. It worked great, though I'm now amazed that I didn't maim myself.

You can't keep guns from any industrious person.

[sean327]

Flame me all you want, but I refuse to elevate the beatles to the music-god status everyone else has. I pesonaly think their music sucked, and I cant stomach thier politics, especialy Lennon's. He should have spelled his name L-e-n-i-n.

[ParityErr]

OHHHH a world without guns....we would be such a big happy family then....It just gives me such a warm and fuzzy feeling...I think its time for a..............................

BIG HUG

/sarcasm

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[Wm Bach]

Whenever they play John Lennon's "Imagine" they should show a video in the background the Hutu genocide with machetes.

[dtom]

sean327 I'm with you all the way, but look what happen to for posting a few negative things about the originators of the "I hate America" four.

THE BEATLES

[SMDC/TLX]

Somewhere I read a quote that said "Those who pound their swords into plowshares will be ruled by those who don't"

[Hugh Akston]

Another tenet of modern liberalism, deconstructed and shown to be a lie.

[Mike Darancette]

Imagine a World where you are the only person without a gun.

Imagine a world with no guns ruled by gangs of thugs with sticks.

[Leesylvanian]

Once we have a world without liberals and criminals, tyrannical governments, war, and under-control animal populations, I'll still want my guns. So imagine a world without guns? Hell no!!!!!!

[300winmag]

Yeah, no guns would mean the return of Bows and arrows, sabers, knives, sling shot like David used to slay the giant or as the Mother in Houston did, use the bath tub to kill her children.

We have all those items now, but they pose little threat to the liberal ruling elite. Only guns give the "peon" the ability reach out and touch even the elite hiding behind their most skilled guards. A peasant with a sword has almost no chance against a samurai with a sword. A peasant with a rifle has an almost-even chance against an expert rifleman, or at least a vastly better chance than his sword-armed equivalent.

Liberals don't have to explicity posit this principle. Their built-in instincts for survival and advancement will do it for them.

In the end, gun control is merely the means that the statist elite (mostly liberals) use to try and protect themselves from any negative consequences that might arise from their evil policies.

Looking back at history, we see that the gun, and only the gun has been the one real "equalizer" that can hinder out-of-control elites. It equalized the relationship between the powerful and skilled, and the weak. The liberals, who worship "equality", absolutely hate that kind of equality.

[MoralSense]

Hey, if you want some cool tales of murder, read "12 Caesars," by Suetonius. It'll give you chills, all the ways Romans had to off each other. If they'd had hypodermic needles, they might have wiped out the empire entirely.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Lateran Council of 1139 outlawed the crossbow because that weapon allowed a peasant foot soldier to kill an armored knight -- obviously not part of God's plan.

[Blood of Tyrants]

When I imagine a world without guns, I imagine the 13th century.

[Mikey]

Excellent post