>I assume that you think that everyone should also have free access to drugs, birth control, abortion, the right to express themselves politically, and define their own gender and sexuality as well?
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.... and you need a strong coherent society for that. To provide the infrastructure and services to allow individuals to flourish. Or you will have to spend all day growing your own turnips and fending off those who would steal, rather than grow.
I think you are conflating a strong coherent society with a strong (arm) government. America existed for over 100 years with virtually no tax. You vote with your money, ie you pay for what you want, need, and value in the world. The individual is the ultimate and most abused minority.
There will always be someone, looking to steal fruits of your labour. That's why having guns is important.
One person with a gun can never hold out against an organised enemy.
That's why it's important to have the most organised, strongest, most coherent society. Working together with tolerance and fairness.
The most organised, strongest, most coherent societ is attacking brown people around the world. Open your eyes.
First, build a society that would work together with tolerance and fairness and then talk about gun control. Impossible to do this the other way round.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
The trouble is it's quite hard to build a safe and fair society, when a section of the potential members of it insist on holding the others at gunpoint, and saying the slaughter of their children in school is the price society should pay for their beliefs.
I mean what is important enough for these idiots to actually have a social dialogue around it? It's totally unreasonable.
You say only the government should have the power to hold people at gunpoint. Use any euphemism you like, but you are taking a pro-totalitarianism stance. Genocide can only happen after people willfully disarm themselves and allow a small group of "protectors" to obtain a monopoly on violence.
No. You're saying, take guns from people and deal with the government later. You won't stand a chance.
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