Wow, now you’re really going back… Yes, nobody is advocating Feudalism, you are correct.
I’m still puzzled as to where you think I said Socialism was new… Is it something you’ve just assumed I was saying because of my mention of Progressivism as opposed to Conservatism? But to be clear, no I am not claiming it’s new.
As above, not stating it’s new, nor do I care whether it was or wasn’t. Just stating facts. Really not sure where you’re getting all these ideas. I am aware that newness is not correlated with validity, thanks.
Ok, so you regard something as successful if it initially gains traction only to fail. That’s one use of “successful”, in some short term sense. Obviously I was using it in the long term sense. I don’t regard what you would refer to as a successful revolution as either successful, or exhaustive. It’s like “yeah we tried it under a few different conditions, obviously doesn’t work in any conditions, let’s give up on that one”.
Ask a scientist if they think a few failed experiments means a disproven theory. Never mind experiments that were constantly sabotaged by external forces…
I don’t know about policy, but there does seem to be a trend in the US that isn’t happening nearly so much as what I can tell from all the way over here in Europe. You might have a point that people are fighting against it more in the US, I can’t say for sure, but it’s an idea worth investigating.
I’m not sure how you think I’ve not explained why I think that confiscating arms from “the lowborn” (or whatever other words you want to put in my mouth) is a good idea. Is it innovative and forward thinking? Well it’s not backward thinking, like in the US, where they still hold sacred a text that dates back several centuries to when their country was born. I’d call it “up-to-date” thinking to ban guns. It’s not innovate, other countries have done it already with obviously successful results… I don’t see why security companies can’t arm their employees, but they will quickly realise there’s no point in investing in guns for them when nobody else has them. In the rest of the more developed countries, firearms aren’t carried because nobody needs them. There are backup teams, obviously, for the extremely rare occasion when they’re called for, and then they come out and resolve the situation. Nothing excessive, just appropriate.
It’s a human right to own a gun…
Seriously?
It’s a constitutional right almost entirely unique in the developed world to the US who drafted their constitution centuries ago. I’m all for protecting yourself (a human right), but I think there’s a line between playing dead and nuclear weapons that need not be drawn after gun ownership. Look at other countries.
Radical leftists firebomb businesses and advocate for violent riots? I say let hypocrisy be hypocrisy and free speech ought to sort that one out, but I think advocating for weapons and violence in exceptional circumstances is different to advocating for the same in all circumstances. I would hazard to guess that the same leftists aren’t even in favour of the lengths they’ve gone to, and that they just resorted to them in exceptional circumstances. But what I don’t think is hazardous to guess is that the actions of the most extreme do not represent the intentions of the less extreme. Why don’t I just lump all rightists in with the most extreme of you?
When more criminals have guns, I’m guessing a gun doesn’t do much to scare them off. And when they don’t have a gun, it probably does, if they’ve given you enough time to go get it by being grossly incompetent. You might have one readily available, in which case what if they grab it first? They’re the ones who get the drop on you.
Sporting events, sure. Sporting events don’t require that all entrants own their own firearm though.
Well I guess it depends whether you think the right to hunt and kill wild animals when you don’t need to, to fail to scare off all but the most incompetent of criminals, to fail to be any match for governmental weapons, to “feel” secure despite evidence trumps a bunch of your young ones being slaughtered by the inevitable mentally unstable kid every once in a while. And cop deaths, and innocent people being shot by cops due to them panicking and acting stupidly. And accidental deaths due to misuse and incompetence, of infants, parents and innocents alike. Etc. Etc.
Part of me wants to let stupidity be stupidity, but having a conscience doesn’t make that so easy.