Comments on: Two sweeping moral visions of guns https://www.isegoria.net/2018/02/two-sweeping-moral-visions-of-guns/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2018/02/two-sweeping-moral-visions-of-guns/comment-page-1/#comment-2614700 Bob Sykes Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:31:14 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43171#comment-2614700 There are two “gun” problems. The first is the insane. We need to reestablish a system of psychiatric hospitals, and we need to make it much easier to institutionalize the insane. Right now it is almost impossible. In the Connecticut shootings, the state repeatedly denied the mother’s request to institutionalize her son. This would also require a substantial relaxation of physcian-patient confidentiality.

As a byproduct, you would greatly reduce the homeless problem, as a large majority of them are mentally ill men. A generation ago these men were institutionalized.

But the crazies are only a small fraction of the problem. Most gun crime, most violient crime, most interracial hate crime is committed by young black ghetto males. They need severe policing, stop and frisk, frequent home searches and much higher rates of incarceration. There are only a few million of such perps as most, so they are a solvable problem.

Unfortunately, neither problem can even be addressed, so there is no solution to either.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2018/02/two-sweeping-moral-visions-of-guns/comment-page-1/#comment-2614694 Kirk Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:05:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43171#comment-2614694 By far the largest killer of innocents over the last few centuries have been the same groups that the gun controllers want to give a monopoly on armed force — the governments. One or two nutters with guns I can deal with, but when the government is taken over by them, and then weaponized against a disarmed population…?

It’s no accident that the first step any tyrant in history has taken was to first disarm the populace. Genghis Khan did it, Lenin and Stalin did it, followed by Hitler, et alia. The list is pretty lengthy, and it is a damning one. The man wanting to take your arms is not your friend; he has an ulterior motive, and that is to enable control over you.

Free men go armed; slaves do not. Bear that in mind, when they are talking about “common sense gun control”: what they are really talking about is ultimately their control over you. Don’t like the path that government is taking? Well, sweetie, if you don’t have the means to resist when the government’s agents come calling, you’re going to die. Ask the Cambodians, or the Jews who were hauled off to the camps…

Oh, wait… That’s right: You can’t. They’re dead, and dead at the hands of their own governments…

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