Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Justice Stevens: Second Amendment is ‘no obstacle’ to banning automatic weapons [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)However, I'm not making that equivalence. I'm talking about deception and how we justify it, or how we justify a disregard for others by placing our own safety before the safety of the group. No society can exist without a social contract. If that contract has deceptive rules written into it, then it loses cohesion, which inevitably puts it on the slippery slope toward anarchy.
It is not hard to imagine that some members of society feel so insecure and fearful, that they really believe that they will be safer if they are armed at all times.
We all have different experiences in life and we live in diverse environments. What I find fascinating about those few who carry loaded weapons in public is that they appear to be almost exclusively men. Yes, we have the occasional anecdote about wives and daughters being armed, but they are a rarity. Here in the gungeon I can only recall two or three females with concealed carry permits, yet there are probably twenty or thirty guys.