Guns, Guns, Guns

[Kythas]

A GREAT article about guns, gun control, and human nature.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/12 ... -guns.html

[RPB]

An armed society spends more time stopping evil than contemplating it. A disarmed society is always contemplating it as a thing beyond its control. Helpless people must find something to think about ...

[Jaguar]

Great read, thanks for the link.

But evil just can't be controlled. Not with the sort of zero tolerance policies that confuse object with subject, which ban pocket knives and finger shootings to prevent real shootings. That brand of control isn't authority, it's authority in panic mode believing that if it imposes total zero tolerance control then there will be no more school shootings. And every time the dumb paradigm is blown to bits with another shotgun, then the rush is on to reinforce it with more total zero control tolerance.

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But this isn't really about stopping shootings; it's about controlling when they happen. It's about making sure that everyone who has a gun is in some kind of chain of command. It's about the belief that the problem isn't evil, but agency, that if we make sure that everyone who has guns is following orders, then control will be asserted and the problem will stop. Or if it doesn't stop, then at least there will be someone higher up in the chain of command to blame. Either way authority is sanctified, control or the illusion of it, maintained.

Gun control is about controlling those with guns, from military to police to security guards working for the political and Hollywood elite. An armed populous is not part of that control, so according to the control advocates they should not have guns.