Rick Stanley Why the gun is civilization by Marko
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- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:46:06 GMT
Rick Stanley
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OPINION RELEASE: Why the gun is civilization by Marko
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From: "T" <eagle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: : Why the gun is civilization by Marko
> At 12:27 PM 3/24/07, K Lamoreaux wrote:
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>>Why the gun is civilization.
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>>http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-gun-is-civilization.html
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>>Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and
>>force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of
>>either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding
>>under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those
>>two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
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>>In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact
>>through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social
>>interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is
>>the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
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>>When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use
>>reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your
>>threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon
>>that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger,
>>a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger,
>>and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys
>>with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical
>>strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a
>>defender.
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>>There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad
>>force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more
>>civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm
>>makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only
>>true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by
>>choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a
>>mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning
>>of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many,
>>and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even
>>an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the
>>state has granted him a force monopoly.
>>
>>Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal
>>that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is
>>fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are
>>won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on
>>the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't
>>constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings
>>and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun
>>makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker
>>defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is
>>level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an
>>octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply
>>wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal
>>and easily employable.
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>>When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight,
>>but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means
>>that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm
>>afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the
>>actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the
>>actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the
>>equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
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