Holy Good Writing, Pirate Brandon!
I just wanted to give myself a pat on the back for this phrase I wrote in the comments of the previous post:
If your goal is to limit the use of guns, then removing all guns would solve the problem. However, the problem is not the use of guns but the use of violence, the onslaught of intolerance, and the epidemic we call "hate."
-Pirate Brandon
posted by Pirate Jimmy @ 11:39 AM
2 Comments:
At 8:25 PM,
Chaka said…
Not bad. I was quite chastened by your reply to my post, mainly because my argument was entirely fallacious.
Maybe I can clarify my murky thoughts on the subject. I think it would be fair to say that you find guns to be neutral with regard to their affect on human interactions. They simply increase the magnitude of what's already there. I suspect, however, that adding guns to mundane personal disputes is not a neutral force. The relative ease with which an adversary may be dispatched lowers the threshold of violence. A guy insults your mother? A bullet is cheap, but you can't buy a reputation.
I haven't even convinced myself of this, but this is what I was trying to say.
At 8:59 AM,
Pirate Jimmy said…
I suppose in that respect you are correct. You could possibly call a gun a catalyst in that sense. On a similar line of thought, I'm sure suicides are more common because a gun makes it so easy.
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