Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Please post reasons why it is OK to kill people in defense of property. [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)All of the arguments for the keeping and bearing of arms support the armed response of the populace to the outrages of an oppressive government or any other entity.
The periodic labor and racial struggles throughout American history are littered with armed violence against a ruling oligarchy that had commandeered a disproportionate share of national wealth. Wealth that had to be redistributed after violent struggle. Remember the battle of Blair Mountain?
It is incredibly myopic to confine the concept of defense of property with deadly force to some sort of bourgeois suburban homeowner context. Read a newspaper sometime. We have the income disparity of a third world country. That imbalance is worse than it was in the Gilded Age. There are people in the streets right now.
Now, unless you are a member of the 1% (and if that's the case fuck you) your ownership of anything is in danger. Don't assume for one minute you won't be in a position of having to steal, or even kill, to eat. The exercise of considering that possibility for yourself or others is called a Theory of Mind. In other words, putting the shoe on the other foot. The ideology that you express is not much more than that capable of an average ten year old.