[Canadian?]: Getting Gun Safety Completely Backward

... and speaking of derailing a thread..... I'm stopping this now and hoping it gets back on track because I'm truly interested in what people think about this.

Sorry, David.

I 'm very happy to hear that.
When I found it in the bookstore,
I thought that it had good potential to please; beautiful historical pictures,
with good explanations, in my opinion. That 's Y I got it.



I do.





David

His work is mostly metaphysical
and I tend not to discuss that indiscriminately, in public.



Well, I don't fear flat tires (get one every few years), but I carry a spare and a jack
in my trunk anyway. I don't expect to get a heart attack,
but I have health insurance, regardless.
Its good to be prepared; not just me, but everyone.

Jack, my point has not been that I shoud be packing heat.
I 've had plenty of guns for many years n decades. I grew up with them.
MY point is that EVERYONE ELSE shoud be packing heat.
THAT will generate an anti-collectivist, pro-liberty sentiment
that will grow progressively more pervasive, influencing many elections.
I CARE about that. I want America to return to being
"the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave".



Self reliance is pivotal; it is supercritical qua
the difference between collectivism combined with authoritarianism,
as DISTINCT from personal liberty, hedonism and Individualism and laissez faire free enterprize.
Thay r anathema to one another. To me: freedom is CONSUMATELY important.
2nd Amendment freedom is antithetical to dependence upon
the collective for one's very existence. This is the most profound civil rights issue.




I know people who have been robbed (or attempted, including ME), but with all respect,
I don t know anyone who has been "terribly burned".





I have one in my house.
It is less ideological than my guns.
As Aristotle put it:
"The Commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms:
the sword and sovereignty
ever walk hand in hand" (On Politics)
or as Jesus put it:
"If you don 't have a sword, you better buy one." Luke 22:36




As I have posted b4,
I remember many times being in bed at night at age 3,
remembering, focusing on the revolvers I'd seen on the hips
of police and of bank guards. My mind was (kinda joyfully) locked on them.





Thanks; I 'll try it.





David

I think that this Olympic policy is manipulating the minds of the public,
using public tax funds, to cause them to believe what government desires.





David

And this is a first, is it, Dave?

Me, I drive a car. Usually I'm too kind-hearted to use its deadly force, but don't you dare cut in front of me!

Seriously though, I think that target shooting, and the self-discipline it requires, is worthy of showing to kids, especially to those who are fascinated by guns. It's the exact opposite of the testosterone-fueled rampages that the mayor of London is trying to discourage.