06-02-2022, 03:39 PM
There are a lot of misunderstandings here I don't have the time to address, but I can do a few
1) "Turn the other cheek" means "don't make a big deal out of nothing" and "have the social grace not to turn small infractions into fights". He says turn the other cheek when you are slapped, not when someone attacks you with weapons. I'll give you an example: when I was in my apartment in Chicago a few years go, an older woman gave me lip because I didn't move out of the way fast enough. I could see she was clearly having a bad day, so instead of escalating, I simply smiled and moved on my way. The next day, she saw me again and apologized profusely for how rude she was. Her daughter was in the hospital after being attacked and was having trouble breathing, so again I smiled and simply said "apology accepted". We had several pleasant interactions from then until I moved a year or so later. There were many ruthless and well-justified wars fought in the Bible.
2) Frankly, "move to a safe neighborhood" is a "let them eat cake"-ism. Good luck to the bottom 30% trying to afford the necessary funds to move.
3) If "regulated" means "run by the state", that would make America a socialist country because we "regulate" various business activities. As these entities are still owned by shareholders, this is a faulty definition.
4) Most of these militias do not believe that situation currently exists. They believe that it has a material possibility some time in the future, and they want to be prepared when it does and, even better, act as potential deterrence, the same way we do with Mutually Assured Destruction concepts with regards to nuclear war.
5) Comparisons between high-gun and low-gun ownership countries is cherry picked at best. We could just as easily point to high gun ownership countries like New Zealand or Switzerland (mentioned in the video below)
6) Also mentioned, people who resist intruders with a firearm are half as likely to be injured as those who offer no resistance
Alas, I know I am unusually zealous about this issue, so I'll leave you with this clip from Dr. Thomas Sowell's work and let cooler heads give a better explanation.
1) "Turn the other cheek" means "don't make a big deal out of nothing" and "have the social grace not to turn small infractions into fights". He says turn the other cheek when you are slapped, not when someone attacks you with weapons. I'll give you an example: when I was in my apartment in Chicago a few years go, an older woman gave me lip because I didn't move out of the way fast enough. I could see she was clearly having a bad day, so instead of escalating, I simply smiled and moved on my way. The next day, she saw me again and apologized profusely for how rude she was. Her daughter was in the hospital after being attacked and was having trouble breathing, so again I smiled and simply said "apology accepted". We had several pleasant interactions from then until I moved a year or so later. There were many ruthless and well-justified wars fought in the Bible.
2) Frankly, "move to a safe neighborhood" is a "let them eat cake"-ism. Good luck to the bottom 30% trying to afford the necessary funds to move.
3) If "regulated" means "run by the state", that would make America a socialist country because we "regulate" various business activities. As these entities are still owned by shareholders, this is a faulty definition.
4) Most of these militias do not believe that situation currently exists. They believe that it has a material possibility some time in the future, and they want to be prepared when it does and, even better, act as potential deterrence, the same way we do with Mutually Assured Destruction concepts with regards to nuclear war.
5) Comparisons between high-gun and low-gun ownership countries is cherry picked at best. We could just as easily point to high gun ownership countries like New Zealand or Switzerland (mentioned in the video below)
6) Also mentioned, people who resist intruders with a firearm are half as likely to be injured as those who offer no resistance
Alas, I know I am unusually zealous about this issue, so I'll leave you with this clip from Dr. Thomas Sowell's work and let cooler heads give a better explanation.
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