Hey there Second Amendment folks! This is what #Trump has to say about legally carrying a firearm in the United States:
"I don't like the fact that he was carrying a gun… It's pretty unusual."
I have feelings. First: I disagree with many of the things Charlie Kirk has said and done. Second: Charlie Kirk absolutely deserves to be alive. This is a tragedy for (especially) his family, and for all of his friends, or those who respect him. Third: there are people in the world who will or plan to do evil. Some of those people are mentally ill, some are just evil people. I have no doubt that whoever did this fits into one of those categories. Fourth: guns are force multipliers. Guns make bad people vastly worse. It makes their bad acts vastly worse. Fifth: lots of bad people have guns; and these bad people ignore all laws. They possess guns illegally, they use them for illegal acts, they take them to places where it is illegal to take them. Sixth: because they ignore the law, new laws are not going to stop them from having or using guns. Seventh: one attractive target zone for these people is "gun free zones" -- because there, they know they will face no opposition. Therefore, the more gun free zones there are, the more places for bad people to do bad things. The people who might otherwise have stopped them, can't! Because these people **do** obey the law, if they are in a gun free zone, they are gun free.
Everything I just said is horrible. The underlying problem is: there are bad people with guns and we're not doing anything to make there be fewer bad people, to recognize when particularly bad people are about to do bad things, or somehow keeping guns out of the hands of bad people. I don't know good answers to any of these problems.
I **do** know that some of the things we are doing that we **think** will fix these problems actually do the exact opposite. Adding more laws and gun free zones which impact only law abiding citizens just makes things worse.
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3/3 This is a very divisive topic. One side is totally against guns: no one should have them. One side thinks everyone should be allowed, and can have one if that’s what they want. Both sides think the other side is going to do awful things in service of their ideas. Pass laws. Hurt people. Go door to door and take guns away.
I have only one point in this post: your current opinion is probably based on a much simpler view. The real situation is so much more complex. If you think you have the answer, and you think that answer is something that could actually happen, you are probably wrong. And I don’t care which side you’re on.
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2/3 Just as cars can be used for evil; fire can be used for good. But we follow strict rules to make fire serve us in a way where it doesn’t destroy what we value. That doesn’t change the nature of fire: fire still destroys. If nobody (anywhere) had guns, would the world be a better place? Obviously, I can’t know that, but it sure seems like it could be. Because bad people have guns, we tolerate guns in the hands of “protectors”, police, soldiers, etc. That doesn’t change the nature of guns: guns still destroy. When a protector uses a gun, it’s still to destroy.
Bad people are bad, yes, that’s obvious. Tools of destruction make bad people so much worse. I’m not making any moral judgement about tools. I’m not saying they’re good and can be misused! I’m not saying they’re inherently evil! One of those might well be the truth, but it’s so complicated I don’t think I have the moral knowledge or understanding to choose. I’m saying that the combination of a bad person and a gun is a bad thing and is pretty much certain to lead to awful consequences. A “protector” with a gun is not automatically bad, but sooner or later, they might be put in a position that ends with loss of life. I have posted on this before: life is precious. Even “bad guys” deserve to be alive, unless they are doing something so evil that it outweighs their need to live, and there’s absolutely no other way to stop them. Because bad guys have guns, that can happen. No “protector” wants to make that decision (and if you think that decision is easy, you’re much closer to the “bad guy” end of the spectrum than the “protector” end). There are no winners.
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1/3 The “nature” of fire is destruction. It burns, it eats things up, it is destructive. There are people who love that about fire. They want to destroy things **with** fire. We call those people arsonists. A single arsonist can destroy millions of acres, hundreds of lives, towns’ worth of homes, with an action that takes them less than a second. People with destruction in their hearts are evil … and fire is a huge force multiplier that makes them so much worse.
The nature of guns is destruction. In every single application of a firearm, the result is destruction. Sometimes small, sometimes large, sometimes devestating. There are people who love this about guns. They want to destroy things **with** guns. Here in the United States we see so many examples of this I don’t need to describe it futher. Guns destroy things, and very often the things they destroy are human lives. (Cars can be used to kill and destroy, too, but that’s not their **nature**. Their nature is about moving things from place to place.). Guns are force multipliers that allow evil people to do so much more harm than they might without a gun. Some guns are especially good at killing human beings.
Until 1930 there was a law in England that required cyclists to ring their bell whenever their cycle was in motion.
This was considered somewhat like the American second ammendment. Stupid, archaic, irrelevant and only adhered to by pedantic short witted morons.
It was repealled.
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