Why are they so violent?
As has been noted in the past, I think their fear of people having guns is projection, because they know they can’t be trusted with them themselves.
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Why are they so violent?
As has been noted in the past, I think their fear of people having guns is projection, because they know they can’t be trusted with them themselves.
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I’ve seen people say exactly that, when asked.
“I know I’d go kill a bunch of people/shoot someone in an argument/be dangerous to others if I had a gun.
So they should be banned.”
That argument is, at least, one I have a tiny bit of sympathy for; I can understand the logical fallacy of assuming “everyone is like me” as non-evil.
This is not surprising from people whose political philosophy rests, essentially, on aggressive force.
Actually…
If one is aggressively/violently inclined like that, and believes [and this is very common and not in itself unreasonable] “everybody is more or less like me”, that would be a good reason to have such a political philosophy.
A non-coercive political philosophy has to, practically, rest on the conviction that people in general aren’t automatically violent towards others as a first impulse, even under civilized conditions.
If one believes, from first-hand experience, the opposite, the only stable political philosophy one can hold is that a powerful State needs to keep people in line to prevent the war of all against all.
In other words, I think you might have the causative relation exactly backwards, in this example – their beliefs about people form their philosophy, not the reverse.
The problem with that argument is that they have access to guns and haven’t yet engaged in that threatened mayhem. Just because you choose not to “have” a gun doesn’t mean that you can’t get one. So there must be some other effective reason why they aren’t shooting people than banning guns.