Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Just looking for input. [View all]sanatanadharma
(4,074 posts)...from people who (mostly) are quite satisfied with the status-quo of gun violence in America.
How many death by gun does it take to change the status-quo?
This thread is another interminable diversion from facing up top the ethical needs of society and the moral culpability of all who will threaten to kill before disarming.
I can not trust a single one of you who are armed because the gun is a material and proximate cause of all gun violence and I have NO way knowing which of you (the efficient cause) has an ego so fragile that my next negative comment might just trigger you to seek redress by the power of that great leveler, the gun, and set you off on a display of immortalizing action (i.e. killing).
I will die. Everyone dies. I will not kill. I will not arm myself to kill.
I do not have a paranoid personality.
I do not live in a world of fear.
Bad things can happen. I will not live a life of expecting it.
And yes you can toss out the "won't you kill to defend family?" question, but that is just changing the name of whatever binding desire motivates one to believe killing is better than all other alternatives.