"I said I never had much use for one. I never said I didn't know how to use one." - Mathew Quigley. Mark Bowden, the author of "Blackhawk Down" said the most appropriate line he ever read about Mogadishu was that "everything that guns can accomplish has been accomplished in Mogadishu." Having every American armed to the teeth to the poin…
"I said I never had much use for one. I never said I didn't know how to use one." - Mathew Quigley.
Mark Bowden, the author of "Blackhawk Down" said the most appropriate line he ever read about Mogadishu was that "everything that guns can accomplish has been accomplished in Mogadishu."
Having every American armed to the teeth to the point of 10 year-olds owning automatic rifles as we descend into Somalia would be the arms industry's wet dream. Let us do all we can to preserve civil society so that we are not forced to defend ourselves to that degree.
The more militias proliferate, the weaker a central government gets, usually to the point where the antigovernment militias and the government itself start acting off of the same sheet of music. It's not just about guns being plentiful, it's about antigovernmental militias being plentiful and normalized. Name me a country with a plethora of normalized/armed antigovernment militias involved in politics that has a stable central government outside of the US. I'll wait. "Democratic" Iraq has a score of 29/100 on Freedom House's index for exactly this reason.
The reality is that your safety is, in the vast majority of cases, inversely proportion to the availability and number of weapons.
They don't make you safer--and more people die through the combination of accidents and suicides than from actual gun violence.
There are VERY good reasons why effective, functional states have a monopoly or near monopoly on violence... so you don't end up with Somalia, or Afghanistan.. or any of a number of other 3rd-world shithole type of countries.
These militias need to be shut down. They are UNREGULATED. The purpose of the militias was not to oppose the federal or state government, but to support it in the lack of a standing army (an idea which never actually took much hold, in the face of reality). Militias were BIG in the south because they were intended to be used against slave insurrections--and that racist lineage lives on in most of the ones that exist today.
"I said I never had much use for one. I never said I didn't know how to use one." - Mathew Quigley.
Mark Bowden, the author of "Blackhawk Down" said the most appropriate line he ever read about Mogadishu was that "everything that guns can accomplish has been accomplished in Mogadishu."
Having every American armed to the teeth to the point of 10 year-olds owning automatic rifles as we descend into Somalia would be the arms industry's wet dream. Let us do all we can to preserve civil society so that we are not forced to defend ourselves to that degree.
pretty sure the gun industry gives Bulk discounts to our congresspeople... Y'know... for the children!
Quigley Down Under was an enjoyable movie.. especially the ending.
Oldie, but a goodie- "The dingo ate my baby!"
The more militias proliferate, the weaker a central government gets, usually to the point where the antigovernment militias and the government itself start acting off of the same sheet of music. It's not just about guns being plentiful, it's about antigovernmental militias being plentiful and normalized. Name me a country with a plethora of normalized/armed antigovernment militias involved in politics that has a stable central government outside of the US. I'll wait. "Democratic" Iraq has a score of 29/100 on Freedom House's index for exactly this reason.
The reality is that your safety is, in the vast majority of cases, inversely proportion to the availability and number of weapons.
They don't make you safer--and more people die through the combination of accidents and suicides than from actual gun violence.
There are VERY good reasons why effective, functional states have a monopoly or near monopoly on violence... so you don't end up with Somalia, or Afghanistan.. or any of a number of other 3rd-world shithole type of countries.
These militias need to be shut down. They are UNREGULATED. The purpose of the militias was not to oppose the federal or state government, but to support it in the lack of a standing army (an idea which never actually took much hold, in the face of reality). Militias were BIG in the south because they were intended to be used against slave insurrections--and that racist lineage lives on in most of the ones that exist today.
Yup
The Quigley Down Under quote reminds me of the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird where Atticus shoots the rabid dog.
There are an awful lot of people out there who don't like guns, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't be adept at using them.