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Originally posted by jaguar
Violence is a tool of the weak minded.
Issac Asimov.
Never heard a truer sentence.
...Therefore guns, for your average joe are an unnessacary risk in terms of self defence.
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To Asimov I would append a sentence that improves his contention: Countervailing violence -- resisting evil -- is a tool of the strong of soul.
As to the last sentence of your coda, Jaguar, the experiences of 33 states, Switzerland, and Israel all militate to the falsification of your entire thesis. Furthermore, your argument -- all unbeknownst to you I know, but nonetheless -- opens the way to genocide. A hostility towards private armaments leads to restrictions and bans on guns; and bans on guns are an essential precondition to episodes of genocide -- one of three, the other two being hatred and governmental power. You'd have some awareness of all this if you'd bothered to do the homework in reading Simkin, Zelman, and Rice,
Lethal Laws: "Gun Control" Is The Key To Genocide , no ISBN, but available through JPFO's website among other places. I am impressed with this book because the bulk of its pages are devoted to facsimiles of the gun control laws in nations where genocides have occurred, with translations into English on the pages facing each page of original text. Jaguar, I speak, read, and write three of those languages -- the translations are honest, for at least the Spanish, the French, and the Russian. They have relevance to the Guatemalan genocide of the Miskitos, the killing fields of Cambodia [which got its gun control when it was a French protectorate], and the Stalinist unpleasantnesses from the Terror Famine through 1953.
www.jpfo.org
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must master this material before you can persuade the enlightened that you've got it right, and no amount of your misspelled prose will obscure the fundamental flaw of not having this in your knowledge base -- their argument cannot be ignored by rational persons; in my experience it is frequently ignored by those who are not rational about arms.