Decline of the West???
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Maia, if you or somebody you knew was violently assaulted by a criminal with a gun, would you rather be defenseless or have a gun of your own?
...there's your answer.
...there's your answer.
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Not IF. It's always better for equalise upwards not downwards.
If your murderer has physical strength, testostestorne and twice your body weigth there's nothing you can do to equalise down.
The strong and the many win any physical confrontation by default.
Then why was there so much murdering before guns?
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Well, for a start off, I wouldn't be much use with a gun, would I?
Far better to eliminate guns, or, failing that as an impossibility, greatly reduce their numbers and availability.
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Societies in the past were far more violent in general.Skepdick wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 9:22 amNot IF. It's always better for equalise upwards not downwards.
If your murderer has physical strength, testostestorne and twice your body weigth there's nothing you can do to equalise down.
The strong and the many win any physical confrontation by default.
Then why was there so much murdering before guns?
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Right!
More violent. Less equal.
I much prefer the equality of modernity - where my physical advantage over a woman was nulified by a mechanical invention.
It's a good foundation for some accountability for sure.
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No solution is perfect, so we have to weigh which ones cause greater harm.
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Societal change is the answer, though it appears to be going the wrong way at the moment. But these things always go in cycles.
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You can fire at pointblank range by the way.
You're missing Skepdick and my point here....
You need to reduce the need for weapons of violence in the first place. It is the WILL to commit violence, that precludes the weapon, in any form. You can't remove this from human nature, correct? So why remain defenseless against those who would brutalize you? That makes ZERO sense.
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I'm all for change; all for change in the right direction; and for being an agent of that change.
Guns are for those who think otherwise. And for regressive changes.
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Sure, everyone can influence things in directions I like and those I dislike. In general if you can spend millions on advertising, say on television news programs, the odds are, well, let's call it an understated 'good' that you can have more influence over attitudes, eventual legislation, what investigative journalism gets set to the side, how politicians are viewed and coverd and so on
compared to the average plumber.
I don't write off anyone, poor or rich, middle-class or not, educated or not. And masses of any type of person can do a lot towards what I like and towards what I don't like.
Power players have been using the mob from long before Rome.
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When did blame ever achieve anything other than start witch-hunts?
Quit playing the blame-game and start playing the "here's a better way" game.
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Because if you can't Blame a person, then nothing can be done to correct the error.
In fact it's assured to repeat. In this case, we see an exact repetition of history, namely mass spread of homosexuality and transexuality in an Empire as it declines (Rome, now USA).
So who is responsible for peddling this smut to kids?
In fact it's assured to repeat. In this case, we see an exact repetition of history, namely mass spread of homosexuality and transexuality in an Empire as it declines (Rome, now USA).
So who is responsible for peddling this smut to kids?