Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Why do you own a gun?

is the question many ask, and a lot of us have trouble getting the other folks to understand.

Into this throw this piece, found linked over at Geek with a .45.

I once read the opinion that, man having overcome the basic survival situations in 'civilized' countries, what was really needed was a mankind that didn't have the fight-or-flight response, that didn't have those old survival urges that can lead to violence. The answer from someone was that those things kept civilization in operation; if we lose them, we'll be back to hiding from barbarians and leopards within a couple of generations.

I started to add that 'the only thing that would hold it back would be a government so all-powerful and oppressive that we would be slaves', but then I realized that that would be the barbarians in control; they just wouldn't call themselves that.

More thoughts later.

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