The Only Question

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Via Sarah A. Hoyt:

The thing is though; society is not honest and historically accurate. The anti-gun culture is one of lies and deception.

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Please note that in addition to creating great collections of memes, she is also the author of some really good science fiction.

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4 thoughts on “The Only Question”

  1. While I generally agree, Americans are too obsessed with firearms . Gandhi and Walesa made a revolution without any guns at all and Begin and Collins suffered from shortages. So let’s keep our guns but think about drones etc

    • Gandhi protested against a regime that was reluctant to just imprison or shoot him.
      Walsea came after the Soviet collapse. The Soviet regime had no problems disappearing people.

      Neither would have lasted long against Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, the Awami League and the like. They’d been buried in unmarked graves in the Chinain 1949 communist takeover and any number of other similar situations like Laos or Saigon in ’75.

      When “those in charge” are willing to do mass killings, with drones and etcetera, a lot of people might die, but they stand a much better chance of not dying if they’re armed.

    • “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, p. 446

      “I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962. pp. 156-57.

      “He who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honor by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi, “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, cited at http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm

      Re “reluctant to … shoot him” — indeed. There’s an alternate-history SF story (forgot the author) where the Nazis conquer India, and promptly get rid of that annoying agitator.

    • “So, let’s keep our guns but think about drones etc.”
      All good.
      Drones are great for waging war. But one has to put boots on the ground to control it.
      And that’s why the focus on guns is the most important.
      We have had 20+ million fighting age males dropped in country. And many still wipe their ass with their finger. (If they do at all.)
      They ain’t going to be flying drones at as.
      Some might, but methinks this net phase of human history is going to be up close and personal.

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