What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few emotional fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.
— H. L. Mencken
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So let’s allow as many good people to own guns as possible.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun from hurting anyone, is stricter gun laws so that he can’t get his hands on the fucking gun. Fire doesn’t kill fire!
Perhaps you misread this. It says “… a bad guy with a gun …” (i.e. already possessing a gun). The gun used in Newtown was already used illegally because of the killer’s young age. How effective was that law? As long as there are laws, laws will be broken. Who then can we trust to save us? Are we to trust the omnipotence, omniscience, and benevolence of a government whose laws are easily broken? Or can we trust in the spontaneous and voluntary assistance of gun carriers around us? Are we so afraid and powerless to help ourselves and each other that we must depend on the virtue of a uniform and a badge?
And let me say that I’m not suggesting more gun carriers is the only answer to gun violence. A casual look at our movies, television, video games, sports, and the sizable political support of perpetual war overseas, etc. will reveal how violent our culture actually is. There is no legislation that will cure our thirst for violence. Only our personal choices and lifestyles can address this critical underlying problem. Here is a brief yet good commentary on the shooting worthy of a read.
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Bullying is wrong! Except …
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Ever notice this?
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education … the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint … . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold… . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2 (via trueloveisafire)
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