I’m not that optimistic, but it’s possible. Look at civil rights, women’s rights, gay marriage, even attitudes towards marijuana. Look at the IRA and ...
Human beings grant rights. But not the state — even though the state is just a bunch of human beings. We don’t like states, because St Reagan said gov...
I never said that. I only mentioned why it has so far been enacted. There was a (albeit weak) gun bill passed last year, which surprised some people. ...
Hopefully lots of other indictments follow, particularly the Georgia “perfect phone call.” Been a criminal flouting the rules for years, thinking he’s...
I should be allowed to fly a plane. I have no history of crashing planes and don’t intend to. My passengers safety? In a free market, they can fly els...
So sarcasm and a red herring from the Trump guy always talking about “fallacies.” No surprise — I wouldn’t want to explain why I support school shooti...
“Oh these poor kids who are forced to work! Let them work and be exploited by corporations - Better than selling themselves on the street!” “What if t...
Which is why we shouldn’t have a society where kids (or anyone) are “forced to work.” We know you want to keep it this way by abandoning all social pr...
Yes. Gun rights aren’t sensible because a huge majority believe they are; in this case, it’s so sensible that a huge majority (even in a deeply divide...
:rofl: at this conversation. Let anyone fly a plane — you think restricting their rights will protect anyone? That’s in the future. Who are you to pla...
A majority want gun control. In some instances a vast majority, including republicans. So they’re really not winning— not with their arguments anyway....
:yawn: In that case: yes, I think mental health is very important indeed and would be happy to discuss the causes and what can be done about it. On th...
According to nos there's no such thing as a community. Forget governments -- they're always gonna muck things up. Etc. It really betrays a kind of ign...
Not begging, demanding. Demanding the government protect the individual right to life by restricting the ability of every nut who wants a gun. Like ev...
That’s a good question. Again, it’s good to look to other countries. There are buyback programs. I think Australia used something like this. I think t...
Cool, like the right to life- via not getting shot. Absolutely. So good, I’m glad we’re both in favor of petitioning the state to protect an individua...
“Just asked a question.” Yes, the question every NRA member, bought politician, and gun not happen to raise every time gun control is brought up. If t...
But you have an interest in American mental health? Why America? Why not Argentina or Japan? Oh yes, it’s because the topic is mass shootings, of whic...
You’re right, it’s just a complete coincidence that someone who continuously spews libertarian ideology just happens to want to talk about the “mental...
Not hostility, but impatience. Impatience with NRA talking points about “mental health” being spewed disingenuously on a thread about gun control, to ...
An interpretation of human nature you mean. A fairly sick one, too. Says the Trump voting corporatist. Maybe Freud was on to something… :chin: Ayn Ran...
Because it’s mostly disingenuous when the topic is gun control. If it’s not, then yes, I repeatedly acknowledge the obvious point that people driven t...
The problem of quaalude addictions certainly was solved. Banning or heavily regulating guns could work too, as they do everywhere else in the world. S...
The same principle applies, whether to my family or anyone else. Just because they’re my family doesn’t give me the right to “govern” them any more th...
Worth highlighting how stupid this statement is, lest it slips through the cracks. Nearly every country on earth has a military, whether aligned with ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html So yeah, maybe it really is a mental health crisis after all: t...
Well it depends on what kind of thought. My junk thought doesn’t seem dualistic in any sense. When I’m contemplating myself or my world I’ll schematiz...
It’s not that we have more bad people, it’s that the bad people we have can go into a store or a gun show and purchase one of the 400 million guns in ...
I don’t want to make drugs illegal. I don’t want to make guns illegal. This shooter bought a gun legally, incidentally. But “illegalizing” drugs does ...
In my family, often enough. Plenty of them. Otherwise I vote for rules directly via referenda, and I elect others to do so. Those others are also peop...
Nothing in what I said suggested any of that. People create rules, not some elite class of people, not "those in power," not the deep state. People. I...
I'll repeat the example, with bold: If fentanyl deaths skyrocketed in country Z, and it turned out country Z was an outlier not in drug use but in the...
I'd probably go through more red lights if I thought the rule wasn't enforced, sure. Murdering people, no. People make up rules for many reasons. Some...
I'm not controlling anything. People can do anything they want. You can go shoot up a school, obviously. Is that your idea of true "freedom"? Is creat...
My rights are restricted every time I drive a car. My freedom, my liberty, is restricted. If I want to go through a red light or drive on the left han...
And this really summarizes the heart of the matter, the taproot belief from which these absurd analyses emerge: a weird kind "individualism" a la Ayn ...
Indeed paranoia -- at least to those like you who view this as some kind of nightmare scenario. In my view, way too HOPEFUL. It won't happen. But if i...
Quite well, in terms of guns. I wouldn't argue for even something as strict as this, but it goes to show... (If you meant literally fentanyl, which wa...
Why do the rich get to drive cars and a single man cannot? Oh wait, a single man can -- if he has the means, and goes through the proper training. It'...
I have -- in Deaths of Despair and elsewhere. Places where it's appropriate to highlight or emphasize the issue of mental health. Making mental health...
Absolutely, and not only is paranoia used to justify having a gun (you know, to "protect yourself against the government" and "criminals" -- which is ...
True -- they go hand in hand. We wouldn't have the amount of guns nor the ease of access if it weren't for this gun culture, which has been deliberate...
Yes, but you act as if this hasn’t been researched. It has— and the conclusion: it’s the guns. Why are so many people depressed in Argentina? Thailand...
Yes, which is why I dedicated an entire thread to it here. Not sweeping it under the rug. But the issue here is gun control, and since other countries...
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