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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 22 2012 @ 10:47 AM EST |
Hunting has nothing to do with this debate.
Hunting was and is still used in sparsely populated rural areas to provide
food.
The debate is not about food.
The debate is about fear.
Do you fear your neighbor down the street more than you fear some government
thug.
The people in rural areas are generally self reliant. Government to them is
distant, unhelpful, and should be minimum. People in cities have a different
view and believe government is there to protect them.
Then there are the cultural issue. People who live in homogenous countries can
formulate rational policies that work for them. The U.S. is not that way. The
U.S. is a homogenization of all people of the world including all their hates
and fears.
In order for gun control to work all most all members of the general population
has to accept it. With 50% of the U.S. population unacceptable to this idea all
gun control would do would ring in another law less era just like the roaring
20s.
Based on this the concept of social reformers that removing guns is going to
remove fear to such an extent that one will not acquire a gun by any means to
protect oneself rings as hollow as the goal of removing alcohol by an earlier
generation of social reformers probed to do.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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