Ideally, the government ARE the people, and so everyone has an equal right to arm themselves.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
That means the Government is not full of elites beyond reproach. It means that the people govern themselves by electing the most trusted among them to represent their interests.
As far as I'm concerned, it's better to mandate that everyone should carry a gun and a knife. The world would be a hell of a lot more polite and compassionate then. The ones most likely to commit crimes would be shot dead pretty damn quick, and the genes to burn, loot, and murder would be excised from the face of the Earth forever.
That's not a jab at any one race, mind you. It's more of a jab at psychopathy in general. Arm the victims, BEFORE they become a victim.
An armed Society is a polite Society. And you're right, it will tend to automatically deal with violence and improve the gene pool. I just hope that before we get to that point people can learn to deal with psychopaths in general, and safely neutralize them. We are very slowly moving in that direction since the Trump Administration.
Ideally, the people have ALL the guns, and the government has none.
Ideally, the government ARE the people, and so everyone has an equal right to arm themselves.
That means the Government is not full of elites beyond reproach. It means that the people govern themselves by electing the most trusted among them to represent their interests.
As far as I'm concerned, it's better to mandate that everyone should carry a gun and a knife. The world would be a hell of a lot more polite and compassionate then. The ones most likely to commit crimes would be shot dead pretty damn quick, and the genes to burn, loot, and murder would be excised from the face of the Earth forever.
That's not a jab at any one race, mind you. It's more of a jab at psychopathy in general. Arm the victims, BEFORE they become a victim.
An armed Society is a polite Society. And you're right, it will tend to automatically deal with violence and improve the gene pool. I just hope that before we get to that point people can learn to deal with psychopaths in general, and safely neutralize them. We are very slowly moving in that direction since the Trump Administration.