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kitchen_kinkY'all know that I'm deeply conflicted on the whole gun thing. I don't like them and think that their proliferation has bad results, yet I understand the desire and right to be armed. I also cheer when I watch victims in films (usually women) turn around and shoot their aggressors.
Yet I also think that gun control is good, that waiting periods are good, that anyone who needs a gun NOW RIGHT NOW probably shouldn't get one right now.
And then there's this article (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greendalek):
If your job makes you fear gunfire from people who are not violent criminals, and if you routinely do things that you think might make the “common man” want to blow your damn head off, maybe what you’re doing isn’t good. (Personally, I avoid doing things that might make the average Joe want to kill me.) The reason tyrants are afraid of armed citizens is because tyrants do things which sometimes make people want to shoot them. (Duh.)
Leaving off the usual stylistic bluster that I think makes most Libertarian writers sound like paranoid, insane assholes and hurts their credibility tremendously...whattaya think?
Yet I also think that gun control is good, that waiting periods are good, that anyone who needs a gun NOW RIGHT NOW probably shouldn't get one right now.
And then there's this article (thanks
greendalek):If your job makes you fear gunfire from people who are not violent criminals, and if you routinely do things that you think might make the “common man” want to blow your damn head off, maybe what you’re doing isn’t good. (Personally, I avoid doing things that might make the average Joe want to kill me.) The reason tyrants are afraid of armed citizens is because tyrants do things which sometimes make people want to shoot them. (Duh.)
Leaving off the usual stylistic bluster that I think makes most Libertarian writers sound like paranoid, insane assholes and hurts their credibility tremendously...whattaya think?
