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To: Talisker
In the "bad guy with a gun" versus a "good guy with a gun" scenario, the problem isn't who's bad and who's good, it's that there is a gun involved, period.

IOW, the gun is the nexus of evil in a "situation." The humans are just along for the ride.

14 posted on 07/08/2014 12:57:55 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: Disambiguator; All

“In the “bad guy with a gun” versus a “good guy with a gun” scenario, the problem isn’t who’s bad and who’s good, it’s that there is a gun involved, period.”

“And there we have a core part of leftist thought. The idea that people have no moral agency, make no moral choices, have no responsibility for their actions.”


29 posted on 07/08/2014 2:47:41 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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