bullseyebob47
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"I'm sure you'll keep on doing whatever you want"
dam right troll.
dam right troll.
Great, now put that on a bumper sticker, leave your doors unlocked and... Ta daa. One more armed bad guy engage!im inspired to make my signature now.
No, I'm not. In fact, I posted on that topic quite recently:No sir, but if one is taken out of your vehicle by a thief, you sir are responsible for that
I've become a Very Hard Man when it comes to certain things, and this is one of them. When I look across the spectrum of how life is instantiated on this Earth and how it evolves and flourishes and survives, I note that in all successful ecosystems, there is one basic truth - individual decisions have consequences, and decisions that cause direct harm to others in the community are addressed as such.
Spreading the blame for bad decision making from the principal actor [e.g. the thief] towards second- and third-order actors is the sort of muddled thinking that some folk [namely the miscreants] engage in to deflect or defer personal responsibility for their decisions and actions, and that others [e.g. the would-be victims] accept out of a misplaced sense of empathy. Sadly, I fail to see how our society benefits from accepting and promulgating such an approach. It certainly helps the [miscreant] individual - it lessens the impact of responsibility - but in doing so society as a whole loses the ability to identify and hold accountable the root behavior that is dangerous to the community.
If somebody steals a car and uses it to mow down a bunch of nuns carrying rescued kittens to safety, the car owner is not responsible for the death of those nuns and kittens - EVEN IF THEY LEFT THE CAR UNLOCKED. They may be viewed as UNWISE to have left the car unlocked, but they are not RESPONSIBLE for the decision making that led some miscreant to commit theft and criminally bad driving. It is reasonably easy to articulate that the poor decision-making that was the menance to society was the product of the thief and not the car owner. Even as muddled as our civil laws may be in this area, our criminal laws still support this notion at the most basic level.
Why would we accept a differing position for firearms?
No, I'm not. In fact, I posted on that topic quite recently:
all my sd guns are not in a safe, loaded, and ready for new york reload. you seem like you wouldn't have any loaded gun around if you where to drink a few beers while watching the game or doing bbq at home. am i right?