Re: gun use - can't find post

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:20:45 +0000, Shelly wrote:

shore@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote in news:evs0vd$5ev$1
@panix2.panix.com:

I expect that if hammers were being used to club strangers to death, to
club family members to death, to commit armed robbery, to commit school
clubbings, and so on, you'd find a bunch of people who aren't really
thrilled about hammers, either. But, you know, they're not.

I'm unsure how "abhor" and "horrify" equal "fear," but whatever. When I
was in college, I used to go to peace meetings sponsored by the local
Society of Friends. Interesting folk, and I mean that in a good way.
Perhaps Jeff and Flick have never heard of Quakers?

Quakers who abide by their doctrine are pacifists. They will not engage
in violence, or condone it in any way. It's an honorable and
intellectually consistent position, and a very difficult one to live up
to.

But it's got nothing at all to do with the typical anti-gunner. Who
refuses to use violence, but is all too happy to call someone else to use
violence on her behalf. Especially when they do so quietly, out of sight,
in somebody else's neighborhood.

Refusing to use violence personally, but being perfectly willing to see
violence used on your behalf by someone else? That's not moral integrity,
it's simply squeamishness. It has no greater moral standing than someone
who will refuse to kill a chicken, but is perfectly happy to eat it.

--
How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect
yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that
is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your life is of incalculable
value, but his is only worth the $30,000 salary we pay him? If you believe
it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to
repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?
- Jeff Snyder, "Nation of Cowards"


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