From: ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Tue Jul 07 1998 - 14:26:55 MDT
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At 09:36 AM 7/7/98 EDT, Andrew wrote:
> I think that a majority of the populace going armed would exert
> evolutionary effects quite soon to eliminate the hotheads and
> preserve the thoughtful. This is a good thing, no?
> >>
>
>
>As a former hothead myself, my first instinct would be to say no.
But a
>better question might be that it could depend on how fast the
thoughtful are
>on the draw.
>
One effect of an armed populace would be that those who could not
handle the responsibility and would end up using their gun illegally -
at which time they would be taken out by others. This is the most
distressing effect of allowing many people to go armed, but it might
be less harmful to society at large to have a few killings by
'hotheads' who are themselves taken care of, sooner or later, by the
majority, than the present system where the only persons you are
likely to meet who are armed are criminals or the police..
As far as 'hothead' goes, I, too, might not have survived to my
creaky old age had I lived in this kind of society. But then, if I
had been born even 200 years ago, I would most likely have been a
street beggar, assuming I had lived that long, due to my terrible
eyesight...
I see only two options to control the present crimewave. One is to
immediately allow all law abiding people who are qualified through
tests to carry a weapon to do so, while eliminating all consentual
(drug, sex, and morality) crimes from the books. The other is a
complete police state with 1984-like surveillance and arrests of
anyone who even appears to be thinking about violating the law.
Recent history makes me fearful we are heading toward solution #2.
Chuck Kuecker
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