cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Some observations.What I meant is that the black market gives the option to a mad man that has a record a place to score AR-15's etc. and go off a bunch of ppl. It aides the mass shootings.
Interesting questions canna....idk thats a hard call for anyone. I believe we live among human. Not bad ones, good ones, okay one...just humans. ....
I think if your life is measured by the confines of how well you turned out in society....to me thats a sad or bad lifeI don't see good people, I don't see bad people, I see people. Im a human.
I think you have left your humanity when you start seeing others for anything other than a human. That also cast's the stone consequently on yourself. You can't call someone else a bad man, without first being one
I hold fast that the Founding Fathers knew best. But I believe we are greatly off course. This is not the founding fathers country anymore. Its a total different world, different game. Sadly, they are working there way to being irrelevant. We have gotten far off the beaten path.
I wouldn't deny anyone the right to defend themselves with firearms. Kinda stupid I would think in any situation. I don't think either of those are violations of human rights.
What I am saying is that you have the right to defend yourself with lethal force, with consequence. There has to be a system of checks n balances otherwise, everybody is off'ing everyone because they feel mortally threatened.
About mass shootings: they are a truly tiny component of overall armed/violent crime. But they become media orgies, partly because the media are run by outright enemies of distributed power, but mostly because they have abandoned formerly-held journalistic standards. No clear thinker will allow the hysteria about mass shootings be the hinge of a gun rights discussion.
About humans: show me where I dehumanized anyone! Calling some people inherently bad is simple honesty of observation. I did not stoop to calling them [racist term] or subhuman or unsouled.
But I do believe that if a fellow human shows me violent intent, i will try to acquaint (him?) with the (imo) basic human right of a positive response ... to his possibly complete detriment. About consequence: how can there not be consequences? In a lawful society, there is police/judicial review. The Zimmerman case illustrates this. He's not getting away with it, even if acquitted. The cost to his life and reputation are already severe.
In a lawless society, the consequences are the precipitation of feud. Only complete fools, or those who have been driven beyond caring, would imagine they could shoot someone and suffer no consequence without a big dollop of luck.
Finally, the totally different world. Even a few years ago i swallowed that idea noncritically. But lately I have been reading a lot of world history on a hobby level. What i am learning is that the world is not totally different in terms of society, its mores, economics and politics. Take away our technology, and we're not that far past Rome and barely ahead of France in the late 18th. We're the same sort of creature that built the Pyramids, held autos-da-fe and burned a swath across Eurasia from the saddles of a hundred thousand steppe ponies ... and voted in the guy who'd rebuild a bankrupt nation on the graves of millions of Jews and Russians. I reject any argument that "we're past all that". We're simultaneously awesome and awful. I embrace the awesome and watch the awful from an elevated and covered position. Crosshairs are involved. cn
