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Thursday, March 13, 2014

The Gun Is Civilization

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument or forcing me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception.
Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing witha19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a car load of drunken guys with baseball bats.

The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is exactly why this government (and Democrats in general) want guns banned. Citizens have a force equalizer over thugs (we have to protect the thugs say the Democrats - they vote for us).

Good article - all voters should read it before they pull the voting handle!

Gerald said...

When the government disarms the people, you then become a "Subject", under the "Rule" of an oppressor. This is what the Liberals and Democrats want, so they can run over us all.
There is an estimated one hundred and fifty five MILLION gun owners in America, just imagine if we all got together and took back our country!!! This is the largest army in the entire world, this is why they are buying billions of rounds of ammo, they know we are getting fed up and it will be soon when we have had enough, and take back our country!

Anonymous said...

253 pm HALLELUJAH

Anonymous said...

I'm ready!! What is taking the people so long to form Militias?