{"id":8991,"date":"2013-02-12T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/12\/why-not-gun-control-for-the-government\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:55:12","slug":"why-not-gun-control-for-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/12\/why-not-gun-control-for-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Gun Control for the Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberals have been calling for a 'conversation' about gun control.  The call is both silly and disingenuous.  Silly, because it is not as if we haven't been talking about this for decades.  So suddenly we need to have a 'conversation'?  Disingenuous, because what liberals mean by a conversation is more like: you shut up and listen and acquiesce in our point of view or we'll shout you down! Here is Medea Benjamin of CodePink 'conversing' with Wayne LaPierre:<\/span><\/p>\n


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But suppose, contrary to fact, that our leftist pals were serious about a conversation, no scare quotes.  Then we would have to discuss not only gun control for citizens, but for government as well.  Fair is fair.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are foolish and irresponsible and criminal individuals among the citzenry and they shouldn't have guns.  But it is equally true that there are foolish and irresponsible and criminal people in government and they shouldn't have guns either.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Besides, quis custodiet custodies?<\/em>  Who governs the government?  If we can't govern ourselves, but need government to govern us, then the government, which is composed of the same "crooked timber of humanity" (Kant) as we are, needs some entity to keep it in line.  That 'entity' is us, the armed citizenry.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Why do we need to be kept in check, but not them?  Come on you feel-good liberals, try thinking for a change.  Do you really believe that government is inherently benevolent and composed of angels from above?  Do you really believe they can be trusted when we can't?  Do you think that they are the parents and we the children?  Then you are Chris Rock and and your brain is as 'petrified' as his.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Gregory's Why Not Gun Control for Government?<\/a> is an extreme piece that I cannot endorse in toto.<\/em> But it does throw the issue into relief.<\/span><\/p>\n

Less extreme and more entertaining is Uncle Sam, Give Us Your Guns.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If you know of any more good articles on this topic, shoot me an e-mail.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Liberals have been calling for a 'conversation' about gun control.  The call is both silly and disingenuous.  Silly, because it is not as if we haven't been talking about this for decades.  So suddenly we need to have a 'conversation'?  Disingenuous, because what liberals mean by a conversation is more like: you shut up and listen … Continue reading “Why Not Gun Control for the Government?”<\/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":[112,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}