(October 7, 2015 at 12:20 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: I think he made the case that having a well-armed civilian populace is useful to politicians who use American military might to maintain our economic hegemony, so the politicians (who would have to be the ones to enact genuine gun reform laws) have little motivation to ban civilian guns, regardless of the consequences to those civilians.
Sounds like a stretch to me, but it's irrelevant. They have little motivation to ban guns because people won't vote for them anymore if they do. It's a matter of keeping their jobs.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
