Reply #22: Old and defeated arguments you are using... [View All]

[SteveM]

People have attitudes toward other people for reasons: self-defense is one of them. You see this attitude in these posts.

Frankly, the "feared, loathed and hated" have more ability to defend themselves now than in my lifetime, with the end of racist gun-control laws, esp. in the South. Unfortunately, the "loathed" poor in big cities often are left without the tools of self-defense.

Who are these people who believe that "other people don't have any right to life at all"? Are they a force, a class, an organization? Let's sort 'em out so we can deal with them.

"yer average shopping mall" probably WOULD have folks with a more reasonable approach to self-defense, more reasonable than some of the stuff put out here. Incidentally, your mall example implies the unpopularity of extreme pacifism.

A "powerful modern nation" is a reason for the RKBA in general and the militia in particular. BTW, those running a "powerful modern nation" often don't want its "population armed to the teeth," as we have seen. This was anticipated by the Framers.

I wonder why you didn't address the over-reliance by "modern liberals" on government agencies and bureaus to defend the population?