tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post1603040809008366855..comments2024-03-28T22:47:58.594+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: We Live in a Free World, I Whittle Down the WindJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-79545841854501743282010-11-15T05:07:47.707+00:002010-11-15T05:07:47.707+00:00Anon, I've responded to your questions and oth...Anon, I've responded to your questions and other points in a <a href="http://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2010/11/whittle-in-dark.html" rel="nofollow">new post</a>.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-47815176436695573192010-11-14T16:30:21.049+00:002010-11-14T16:30:21.049+00:00[i]We're taking away the property of someone w...[i]We're taking away the property of someone who would otherwise be breaking the gun control laws we've introduced.[/i]<br /><br />Um, in actual fact they're not, these laws are not (and will never be) enforced against the major criminal gangs like MS13 or the Latin Kings that reside in the larger U.S. cities, for obvious reasons. No, they're aimed at those people that the lawmakers imagine they can coerce easily into compliance. <br /><br />[i]it defends his philosophy of personal freedom on its own merits, and fronts up to the fact that he believes in it irrespective of the cost in human life.[/i]<br /><br />That would be 'the personal freedom to defend one's own life (as well as others lives')'. Which makes your position one of 'people must have their freedom to defend their own lives interfered with and thwarted, in the name of 'protecting lives' (yeah, if I pretend to be interested in protecting lives I will haz the moral high ground not them!)'.<br /><br />[i]States with higher levels of household gun ownership had higher rates of firearm homicide and overall homicide. [/i]<br /><br />One wonders how the researchers arrived at that figure. Did they, for example, check only those homes that had seen a homicide take place, for evidence of (legal*) gun ownership, or did they endeavour to find out how many of the approximate 47-53 million households that have legally owned guns on site, to see how many homicides took place with (legally*) owned guns?<br /><br />You will appreciate how one method gives us a very skewed picture that is nonetheless politically useful to the gun ban nuts, whereas the other method demonstrates how [i]rare[/i] murders actually are in households with (legally*) owned guns, which puts the lie to the notion that ownership of a gun leads people to murderous outbursts.<br /><br />(* I stress 'legally' because if these researchers are including murders committed with [i]illegal[/i] guns into their research, as justification for restricting the freedom to protect one's life for people who do not own guns illegally, then that would be seriously unjust, would it not?)<br /><br />[i]It really depends on who is holding the gun at any given moment, doesn't it?[/i]<br /><br />Well that indicates that you would be OK with, say, a person confronted by someone intent on their murder, 'holding the gun' at that given moment, which is not the case as you have indicated elsewhere. Rather, your attitude is that as far as you are concerned, there is no way in hell people about to be murdered should be able to prevent their murder by the use of a gun, and to hell with anyone who might find themselves in such a situation.<br /><br />[i]Whittle's real message is that if you want to be equal in [b]his[/b] world[/i]<br /><br />[i]His[/i] world? Sorry, Whittle isn't personally responsible for the world having people in it who see others as prey, to be abused, robbed, raped and murdered at will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com