Fact, the South has the hugest murder rate and rate of violence. It is also Gun Central. THE EXPERIMENT HAS BEEN TRIED and utterly failed. accept falsification.
It failed because young men are not rational players operating according to self-interest game theory. They are using reaction sets inherited from when an angry fit would throw you into a fight with fists. In a fistfight, even if you lose, you may win the other guy's respect. In a gun fight, the loser dies and the winner goes to prison.
IF we were all armed to the teeth for a thousand years, I agree, evolution would be very rapid. In 1,000 years all young humans would be calmer and operate with better game theory. I do not intend to wait that long. Nearly all of the advantages of Campbellian doctrine "an armed society is polite" - in other words accountability - can be achieved using cameras instead of firearms.
With cameras, the first shooter doesn't win, but the one who's right will. And if you shoot impulsively with a camera, you can say "I'm sorry."
Hey, I am "Mr. Accountability". I'm no sweetness goody liberal. Humans are often maniacs and I want everybody armed to defend themselves.
But I am also a father, and I do NOT want schoolteachers armed to the teeth. I want only rifles in peoples, home, stored high with the bolts removed and locked elsewhere. We'll have our second amendment guns... and home defense or sport or hunting. All other types - including Assault rifles and handguns, are simply substitute penises for really sad obsessive fellows.
> Ture: ...however, the other side is----
>
> Without firearms people still kill.
> Without firearms the violent power is in the hands of those with superior
> size and/or years of training.
>
> Firearms are the grate equalizer. For instance, the largest brute in the
> neighborhood cant just come and take your mate whenever he wants, because you
> (or your mate) will take out your Glock and end his life. And don't tell me
> this is far fetched because I have been placed in that situation.
>
> Unfortunately the equalizer also raises the stakes. Idiots with guns are much
> worse than idiots with knives. But they aren't really any worse than an idiot
> --who is physically larger and more powerful-- with knives.
>
> If there wern't many violent idiots then a gun free society would just make
> sense. But unfortunately that is just not the case.
>
> Since the UK has banned firearms violent crime (especially those involving a
> perps with firearms) has gone up. Since Texas & Nevada have relaxed their
> concealed carry laws violent crime (especially those involving a perp with a
> gun) have gone down.
>
> Put Firearms in the hands of teachers, and train them how to properly use
> them, and violence in schools will go down.
>
> It seems counter intuitive, but that's the way it seems to work. Think of it
> this way, Terrorists, (and other idiots) go for soft targets, make everything
> a hard target and you reduced their ability, and more important their
> willingness to strike.
>
> Jan
>
> Cold-and-Hard Maru
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