"In such a world, the best way to survive is to have a state of your own and make sure that state has a lot of military power. This is what we realists call a self-help world."
Then the other guy has to do the same and what you get is ... what we've got.
That's the same logic that's made the US the biggest gun owning country in the world and given it the firearm death rate it has.
"In such a world, the best way to survive is to have a state of your own and make sure that state has a lot of military power. This is what we realists call a self-help world."
Then the other guy has to do the same and what you get is ... what we've got.
That's the same logic that's made the US the biggest gun owning country in the world and given it the firearm death rate it has.
Nearly half of those firearm induced homicides are via suicide, and concentrated in a handful of zip codes, where drug-gang activity is highest (per FBI statistics).
Fact is Americans keep buying guns because they're (rightly) terrified of all the Americans buying guns.
Whether they then use those guns to shoot themselves in an impulsive act that may not have happened if they'd had to take the time to find somewhere to tie a rope or their teenage son opens the gun safe and tops himself after his girlfriend dumps him or their toddler reaches into Mommy's handbag and inadvertently blew her head off in a supermarket or a dispute with a neighbor escalated to a lethal shootout or a cop blew him away because he couldn't see what he was reaching towards during a traffic stop and knew a lot of Americans have guns in their cars, the toe-tagged outcome is the same and the cause is the same. People substituting firepower for communication, lethality for security and weaponry for trust.
"In such a world, the best way to survive is to have a state of your own and make sure that state has a lot of military power. This is what we realists call a self-help world."
Then the other guy has to do the same and what you get is ... what we've got.
That's the same logic that's made the US the biggest gun owning country in the world and given it the firearm death rate it has.
Nearly half of those firearm induced homicides are via suicide, and concentrated in a handful of zip codes, where drug-gang activity is highest (per FBI statistics).
And your point?
Fact is Americans keep buying guns because they're (rightly) terrified of all the Americans buying guns.
Whether they then use those guns to shoot themselves in an impulsive act that may not have happened if they'd had to take the time to find somewhere to tie a rope or their teenage son opens the gun safe and tops himself after his girlfriend dumps him or their toddler reaches into Mommy's handbag and inadvertently blew her head off in a supermarket or a dispute with a neighbor escalated to a lethal shootout or a cop blew him away because he couldn't see what he was reaching towards during a traffic stop and knew a lot of Americans have guns in their cars, the toe-tagged outcome is the same and the cause is the same. People substituting firepower for communication, lethality for security and weaponry for trust.