Debate about Gun Control

[Eric the Green]

(09-07-2016, 12:04 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Eric the Green, it's pretty clear from your post there's no hope of convincing you of anything outside of the dogma of political correctness on gun control

Or you, I imagine....

The situation here is that you are not able to refute my comments, so you just talk about my "dogma"....

Quote:, but just to satisfy your curiosity regarding the link to democracy and individual liberty,  I will point you to my writeup on how military technology dictates political organization and has done so since at least the beginning of the bronze age:

http://psychohist.livejournal.com/77711.html

So the people can't decide, whether by politics or revolution, what kind of military technology they should have? This sort of mechanistic causation cannot explain human behavior, and scarcely coincides with the idea of "liberty" for the individual.

Quote:I have not yet written a planned follow on regarding how nuclear weapons will change standard forms of government over the coming centuries, but if you grasp the historical influence of military technology on political organization provided at the above link, you should be able quickly to see how obsolescence of firearms likewise makes democracy obsolete.

Obsolescence of firearms only means that humans are learning to solve their disagreements without shooting each other. Don't you think that should become obsolete as humans mature? Or do you want to live forever in a neighborhood with barred windows in homes that you can't leave unless in an armoured vehicle? Have you any notion of the possibility that humans can live in peace with one another?

Nuclear weapons have been around since 1945. So I imagine if your theory is correct, that democracy should have vanished by now. Instead, it has expanded across the globe, and even people in the tyranny-bound Middle East are rising up for it, and giving up their lives for it.

I have already refuted the statements in your essay.