Indeed. And the same old mantras. And nothing changes, people keep on being killed. And I bet every time there’s a massacre, gun sales go up.What I do enjoy are the logical fallacies that are used in the arguments. It is an education in philosophical logic, for those who actually want to learn. Also, the statistics that come trotting out are invariably misquoted or carefully selected, except when they are complete lies, of course.The reality is that the US is a gun culture. While it exists within the nation’s psyche that guns created the USA, there is that association between liberty and guns, that one is required to maintain the other. Sadly, over time, it has gone from “Give me liberty, or give me death!”, which was relevant at that time in that place, to “Give me guns, so I have the liberty to wield death!”Part of national liberty is seeing ones self as a part of society and realising that for all to have freedom—including freedom from being shot—some individual freedoms must be sacrificed. But I understand that is seen as a socialist view and the American Way is a different, personal, one. America was formed by those who escaped the Old World way of doing things. People who wanted to do things their own way and live life as they wanted and that has set the cultural philosophy and provided the definition of what it means to be free.The philosophy here is “Give me liberty”, not “Give us liberty”. You cannot have guns and no shootings. Just accept it as part of the price for security of individual freedom, it is part of being American.
Indeed. And the same old mantras. And nothing changes, people keep on being killed. And I bet every time there’s a massacre, gun sales go up.What I do enjoy are the logical fallacies that are used in the arguments. It is an education in philosophical logic, for those who actually want to learn. Also, the statistics that come trotting out are invariably misquoted or carefully selected, except when they are complete lies, of course.The reality is that the US is a gun culture. While it exists within the nation’s psyche that guns created the USA, there is that association between liberty and guns, that one is required to maintain the other. Sadly, over time, it has gone from “Give me liberty, or give me death!”, which was relevant at that time in that place, to “Give me guns, so I have the liberty to wield death!”Part of national liberty is seeing ones self as a part of society and realising that for all to have freedom—including freedom from being shot—some individual freedoms must be sacrificed. But I understand that is seen as a socialist view and the American Way is a different, personal, one. America was formed by those who escaped the Old World way of doing things. People who wanted to do things their own way and live life as they wanted and that has set the cultural philosophy and provided the definition of what it means to be free.The philosophy here is “Give me liberty”, not “Give us liberty”. You cannot have guns and no shootings. Just accept it as part of the price for security of individual freedom, it is part of being American.