On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:36:37 -0500, nothermark <nothe...@not.here>
wrote:
>From what I have heard so far it sounds like he spent too much time
>holed up listening to Conservative talk radio and cruising the
>Internet for sites like Town Hall. This is the kind of thing true
>believers do. Conservatives in Colorado. Liberals in Paris.
I see several issues.
On 'gun control', we tried it both here in America and elsewhere.
Didn't work. Never has, never will. And like booze prohibition or
any other prohibition, it causes a host of other problems.
On the subject of nutters, whether they are anti-gun nutters,
anti-abortion nutters, climate change nutters or any other kind of
nutters, they will always be with us. It is the price we pay for
freedom of thought. The best thing to do is point at them and laugh.
Beyond that, we have the purveyors of disinformation - of falsehoods
that incite the lunatic fringe to violence. Like those who would have
us believe that guns are inherently dangerous, never mind that
millions of guns shot nobody today. Or those who claim that climate
change is wholly a product of industrialization and that developed
countries should pay undeveloped countries for being backward - all
despite the correlation between population growth and a hundred other
probable culprits. Or those who hype the plight of the unborn with
little sympathy for the already born. These are the folks to thank
for the Colorado PP shootings and for the Paris riots and, for that
matter, for Islamic terrorism. But what to do about them??
My worst fear is a government that seizes the right to restrict its
citizens for what they might do, without overwhelming proof that they
are a real danger - like the Japanese interred during WW2. Should we
disarm all the RTLrs for inciting the Colorado springs nut? Sounds
like a cure far worse than the disease it is intended to cure. But
that is exactly what some people are proposing - that you should be
denied gun ownership because you loosely fit some profile. Like maybe
you object to abortion clinics??? Not on my boat. I'll accept the
risks rather than give government that kind of power.
Could be we should just carry on as usual - with a bit more finger
pointing and laughing. That seems to hurt some (eg Islamists) more
than shooting at them.