03-27-2018, 05:57 PM
(03-27-2018, 03:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-27-2018, 01:36 PM)David Horn Wrote: Would you say the same about any other product? I doubt it. Odd, but mental health is the same in most advanced countries, but they seem to do just fine in the gun-death department.I could if I were liberal. If I were liberal, I could blame pressure cookers, cars, motor fuels, knives, jet air planes or whatever item and ingredients that have been used for the purpose of murdering people and injuring people. BTW, Happy Birthday.
Don't forget.... Feet! Dogs! Matches! Electricity! Medicine! Heck, school textbooks could make a deadly weapon.
Just about anything that has deadly force behind it -- even simple mass -- can be turned into an object of death. Even if we weren't violent people by nature, we college students were mistakes as targets of violent crime. We might have turned some college textbook into the classic blunt object. I don't know how often we encountered potential rapists or muggers... but we usually traveled in packs when in high-crime areas just off campus. The 18-year-old Asian woman who looked like a 14-year-old girl usually wasn't alone; a pair of big, tough white guys, fellow college students might be there. Contrary to the myth that the typical college student is a nerdy, cowardly weakling -- college students on the average are bigger and better fit than our non-college peers. We might not be experienced fighters, but it doesn't take much experience to win a fight -- as a pack. Yes, we could use college textbooks back in the 1970s for such a purpose.
She might have turned her car keys into claws that a bear or big cat might have envied. You know -- keys just between fingers? That's one way to fend off a rapist. Feminists loved to show that.
But this said... there wouldn't be a Kentucky Fried Chicken without a pressure cooker. Cars? Useful for driving a crime (or heart attack) victim to the hospital. Knives? Good for cutting flesh, whether of beef or of humans. Jet air craft? Wonderful way to get people away from genocide. Dogs? You had better behave yourself in their presence.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.