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MA: It really isn’t the guns — let’s address the people problem
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But if we take more notice of the subtle changes we already see around us in these areas of progress, the writing on the wall becomes much more deeply printed. The use of guns in the way we presently see it will become a relic of the past, like cigarettes on airplanes and words about others we already no longer use. We will remember these times as a barbarous age, because it is. But one day we will more clearly see in hindsight the trends that were already working toward the right ways to support one another in the flourishing of humanity. |
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The writer knows little about human nature.
There will always be bad humans in this world, and there will always be a need for tools of self-protection from both the violent criminals on the street and the totalitarian criminals who greedily seek positions of power in our governments. When enough of the latter take over, guns will more than prove their necessity.
It has always been that way, and it will always be that way. |
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