I know who Dad is, who's Mom?
I know who Dad is, who's Mom?
Lance is a hermaphrodite. He's both Mom and Dad.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
but that's merely a general maxim. You need to apply it within reason or else you'd end up with anarchy. As usual, the question is not which of two extremes to go for because that almost always ends badly, but rather to work out which of the many shades of grey is the best compromise.
So jog my memory - which one of the countries mentioned was a democracy before the respective genocides or other mass killings began? Unless I'm missing something, the only place with a sort of democracy in place before things got ugly was germany with the Weimar Republic. Ironically, people in the time between the end of WW 1 and 1933 had very easy access to guns because the country was lousy with them after the surrender of the german imperial army. I believe that in no small part the government's trouble in subduing the nazi, communist and imperialist movements that eventually brought down the republic was due to the fact that they didn't have much of an advatage in firepower.
On an aside, it seems the numbers stated for Uncle Joe are far too small.
what does that stat prove in the present context?
I agree with you, this particular case is not a good example for the debate on gun laws. key questions for the legal framework of a country should be pondered with a long term perspective in mind and not under the impression of an isolated recent disaster.
you wish...
History shows the gruesome nature of human beings and that was the point of my graphs. It's insane, irrational, and down right dumb to think that Democracies are immune from revolution or government imposed killings.
Our current president used the military to kill 4 American citizens without due process. It's not a huge number but it proves that even modern Democracies kill their own citizens.
As a dyed-in-the-wool misanthropist, I concur with your original assessment of humans and society. I just draw different conclusions from it. There certainly is a slight risk that even governments that are stable democracies now might turn tyrannical in the future. In that unlikely event, there is a small chance that an insurrection might succeed in bringing down that hypothetical tyranny by using guns. What are the odds of that acutally happening?
Meanwhile, day after day, actual people actually die or get wounded in armed robberies, gunshot accidents or spontaneous outbursts of violence that got much uglier with guns than without them.
So in my book the benefits of stricter gun laws (I don't even think a complete ban is warranted or acceptable) outweigh the risks and restrictions of individual freedom by far.