Should People Have The Right To Carry Guns?
Now let’s consider “Barry”. Barry can barely read, he has never been loved, he can’t afford a packet of crisps. Can we expect him to try to be mindful? He can’t. He is angry, and it is humans and society that have made him so.
What does Barry want to do? He wants to eat. But, he has no money, so he begs, but he’s told to “frig off” etc. So he grows in rage. The Christian shelter feeds him for a couple of nights, but he’s bored, and tired, he wants more, he wants a bed. Barry decides to rob someone.
Barry, our now hardened human wants to break in somewhere, anywhere, to get some food. If he comes across another human whilst he’s in the target property he will fight, but only if the resident is small and he will run if they are bigger or armed, that’s his decision…
Barry runs inside this new and unfamiliar home, dizzy and distraught. He doesn’t see the 10 year old with the rifle. Now Barry’s dead.
The arm America brigade would say “good, we lost another portion of earth’s human scum.” But I say… “we made the scum, we are making more scum and your are, at best, a murderer.”
That little story there was a textbook “bleeding heart liberal” point of view, I am aware of that. At the end of the day, if someone broke into my house looking to sell my computer for his next crack hit, and he had a knife, and he went for my family, I would want a gun. And I know that if I had a gun I would shoot him dead rather than see my family slaughtered by a junkie with no scruples.
I personally believe the real problem is that humans are inherently faulty. We can never achieve true altruism. Many will die, not trying.
