12-10-2017, 02:29 AM
your perspective might change the first time you're shot at... I've been shot at in Vietnam and Alaska.
I'm sure my perspective would be different if I was in a war in Vietnam, or in a state like Alaska with 6 times more gun homicides per 100,000 population than Hawaii. Alaska is the highest in the nation in that category. But put the danger in context. We live in Puna, a relatively safe corner of the world. It gets cold here more often than people get shot at, yet, how many of us insist on owning an Artic Parka? Especially when you can just as effectively layer shirts and jackets when it's 50 or 60 degrees out.
Every situation has multiple working solutions. Not just one.
Look at a list showing the strength of guns laws in a state that also shows gun related deaths. The stricter the gun regulation, the lower the gun death rate. The idea that a gun makes you safer is a fallacy.
Study your history. The 2nd Amendment was put in the Constitutionat the insistence of Southern slave owners. It was the only way a white plantation owner and his handful of managers could control 50 or 100 slaves. It's a remnant of the most embarrassing institution this country has ever known. The original purpose of the 2nd Amendment ended 150 years ago in 1865, after the Civil War was won by the North.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
I'm sure my perspective would be different if I was in a war in Vietnam, or in a state like Alaska with 6 times more gun homicides per 100,000 population than Hawaii. Alaska is the highest in the nation in that category. But put the danger in context. We live in Puna, a relatively safe corner of the world. It gets cold here more often than people get shot at, yet, how many of us insist on owning an Artic Parka? Especially when you can just as effectively layer shirts and jackets when it's 50 or 60 degrees out.
Every situation has multiple working solutions. Not just one.
Look at a list showing the strength of guns laws in a state that also shows gun related deaths. The stricter the gun regulation, the lower the gun death rate. The idea that a gun makes you safer is a fallacy.
Study your history. The 2nd Amendment was put in the Constitutionat the insistence of Southern slave owners. It was the only way a white plantation owner and his handful of managers could control 50 or 100 slaves. It's a remnant of the most embarrassing institution this country has ever known. The original purpose of the 2nd Amendment ended 150 years ago in 1865, after the Civil War was won by the North.
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”