{"id":5173,"date":"2017-10-05T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/the-unserious-serious-discussion-about-guns\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:35:00","slug":"the-unserious-serious-discussion-about-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/the-unserious-serious-discussion-about-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unserious ‘Serious’ Discussion About Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Neumayr<\/a> is one of the few who is talking sense on the issue.  What follows is a fine complement to what I say in The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I have bolded some passages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality. It laughs at the mustiness of the Ten Commandments, then demands respect for a flurry of new laws. It scoffs at old codes of self-control, then presses for \u201cgun control\u201d and greater state controls on this or that freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

From this ethos, regnant for decades in elite circles, has come an out-of-control society in which pols reflexively respond to unspeakable tragedy by advocating more and more laws for a people whose gradual loss of virtue guarantees that they will violate them. The terminus of this toxic admixture of totalitarianism and relativism is the transformation of society into a kind of prison: an endless number of laws and deprivation of freedoms imposed on an increasingly soulless citizenry. Of course, the people running such a system, the totalitarian elite, make sure to exempt themselves from the confines of the prison even as they boast of its glorious benefits. Recall the Soviet thugs who would impress Western visitors with stats proving the Soviet Union\u2019s \u201clow crime rate,\u201d or Fidel Castro showing visiting dignitaries \u201chow safe Havana is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the utopia to which gun-control liberals hope to lead America. They clamor for a tragedy-proof America in which \u201cnothing bad ever happens to anyone,\u201d except the massive loss of their freedom. The gun control lobby\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d to crime isn\u2019t the recovery of a civil society that teaches virtue but the granting of more and more power to a state that treats everyone like a criminal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conspicuously absent from all the sanctimonious lectures on gun control this week was any grappling with America\u2019s cultural meltdown, which is the most comprehensible explanation for a spike in mass shootings even as laws and restrictions multiply. Indeed, the loudest voices for gun control come from the degenerate cultural forces most responsible for that meltdown. They demand that America \u201cget serious about gun control,\u201d even as they get less and less serious about the values and institutions most essential to the preservation of civilization.<\/strong> Educrats who have decimated America\u2019s public schools profess shock at an increase in \u201cschool shootings\u201d; late-night hosts who roll out the red carpet for blood-and-gore stars wonder at the \u201cglamour of violence\u201d; an elite that prides itself on destroying the traditional family is aghast at the rise of so many mass-shooting misfits who come from broken families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the hasty calls for more gun control from these preening frauds<\/strong> conveniently ignored that the Las Vegas shooter used illegal guns. If anything, the tragedy is an indictment of their exclusive focus upon legislation as a solution to criminal pathology. That they would politicize it so quickly, without bothering to engage any of the facts of the tragedy, underscores the opportunistic totalitarianism always lurking beneath their demagoguery. They never let a crisis or a mass shooting go to waste.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the media, late-night comedy talk show hosts now serve as the \u201cconscience of the nation\u201d at these fraught moments, which sounds about right for a democracy as fatuous as ours. In between showing clips from the latest demented, violence-drenched Hollywood movie, they are going to lead the nation towards \u201csensible gun control,\u201d apparently. \u201cSensible gun control\u201d is the elite\u2019s euphemism for making sure that everyone except their bodyguards is deprived of guns.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of the word \u201csensible\u201d in the mouth of statists. It is what they say right before they violate a right. Obama\u2019s call for \u201csensible conscience protections\u201d foreshadowed his fiat violating the consciences of all employers by forcing them to cover the abortifacients and contraceptives of their employees. \u201cSensible gun control\u201d foreshadows the destruction of the Second Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left is neither sensible nor serious about controlling wicked behavior. If it were, it would seek to shore up the foundations of civilization, without which the multiplication of laws is useless, to which the tragedy in Las Vegas attests. It is insensible to think that good laws can protect the innocent without a functioning civil society that reinforces them. It is precisely the fruit of that civil society, a culture of self-control, that the liberal elite has done the most to poison. Liberals favor \u201cgun control\u201d without self-control. In the end, this just means more and more government control \u2014 an endless cycle of relativism leading to totalitarianism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Neumayr is one of the few who is talking sense on the issue.  What follows is a fine complement to what I say in The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture? I have bolded some passages. ………………….  The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality. … Continue reading “The Unserious ‘Serious’ Discussion About Guns”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}