Pretty well put, I don't understand people.
http://m.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun
Pretty well put, I don't understand people.
http://m.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun
He's a fence sitting douche and there's a special place for those in Dante's hell. I stopped reading at "most of my friends and myself don't own guns and never will." Regardless of the paper's outcome, which I never got to, it's real simple at this point. Shall not be infringed, individual right, done.
Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be.
Anyone that thinks war is good is ignorant. Anyone that thinks war isn't needed is stupid.
"There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
"The revolution will not be televised... Instead it will be filmed from multiple angles via cell phone cameras, promptly uploaded to YouTube, Tweeted about, and then shared on Facebook, pending a Wi-Fi connection."
Sam Harris is not "one of us" but he tries to be logical a lot of the time.
He destroys the antigun position from the standpoint of a left-leaning intellectual. I disagree with him a lot and he has some factual errors, but the tone of the article is excellent.
If the author could get past his elitist contempt for the common man he'd have something there.
Simple fact is that you don't have to have years of elite firearms training to be able to safely and effectively carry a gun and protect school children. Hiring a bunch of high speed/low drag operators at top dollar to guard our schools for infinitesimally rare mass murder events is just asinine ... a few guns in the hands of those teachers with CHLs that want to pack, maybe an administrator or two and someone on the janitorial staff (no, not that sketchy dude that spends too much time mopping up in the girls locker room) and you'd harden schools enough that the vast majority of these nutters (and that's a ridiculously small number to start with) would stay away.
Anyway I stopped reading and decided his essay was not worth passing on when he started wringing his hands about private sales.
Modern liberalism is based on the idea that reality is obligated to conform to one's beliefs because; "I have the right to believe whatever I want".
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people."
-Penn Jillette
A World Without Guns <- Great Read!