tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post3994142629736338329..comments2023-10-19T10:26:30.108-04:00Comments on Yin and Yang: The Right To Bear Arms?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-7230886325976702572013-01-25T05:54:32.743-05:002013-01-25T05:54:32.743-05:00Hi Kate!
It never occurred to me to question the ...Hi Kate!<br /><br />It never occurred to me to question the existence of the second amendment. I only thought there should be stricter gun control laws. On a gut level I have always seen the amendment of free speech (so outrageous to many other countries - so dangerous to their government and religions) as cojoined with the right to bear arms. They both are putting so much responsibility and freedom into the good sensibilities of the American individual. Naturally our sensibilities frequently fail. Fool things and cruel things come out of our mouths and are published and people shoot at other people over stupid things. But the freedom to believe whatever you want in some countries is just as dangerous as the right to defend yourself and kill..........our laws seem to encourage us to be a lawless country. And yet we are a superpower.<br /><br /><br />My husband can't have his gun inside the house because I might kill myself during a suicidal impulse. Because he is used to being armed (how he lived before he met me) he feels rather helpless and unsafe without a gun in the house. It helps that we have a german shepherd dog in the house who is fiercely protective. But I know that for a lot of men (and some women, like my husband's daughter) having a gun in the house means peace of mind. <br /><br />I'm afraid that the second amendment is also like freedom of religion. You don't have to like the other person's religious beliefs but you have to let them exist. The ownership of a gun, in men I have known, is usually fundamental to the core of who they are, very much like a spiritual practice is or the knowing that you are protected by free speech. Gun nuts are zelots - their religion is protecting themselves. I think at at very deep level inside the mind there is some satisfaction that you are taking action to protect your own life or the lives of the ones you love. That's at the essence of gun ownership. Defense, not offense.<br /><br />As a second view, my husband has a lot of co-workers who hunt for sport and food. They like going into the woods and brings back a deer. They eat the deer meat during the winter. Some hunt with special arrows, some guns. But all use lethality.<br /><br />My good friend Rocki has several black belts. Its funny but she thinks she is far more lethal than a gun. In her mind there are many ways to disarm a person with a gun. For her, being able to protect herself with her hands is most important, not that she can kill with her hands but that she can defend herself. Ingrained into her training as a black belt is the obligation and morality never to use her skills unless necessary. She would only use her skills as a last resort. <br /><br />I think most gun owners would only use a gun if they felt their life or a life of a loved one was being threatened. <br /><br />The people who use guns to kill offensively in a violent act are evil. And I'm afraid that in a free country, that beautiful freedom allows for evil to exist.<br /><br />All my love,<br />Karen<br /><br /> Karen May Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14436905322393073250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-89745949517509420632013-01-24T22:10:01.958-05:002013-01-24T22:10:01.958-05:00Yes! Right on, Kate! I say, get rid of the worthle...Yes! Right on, Kate! I say, get rid of the worthless Second Amendment and all the evil guns! We don't need any more killing machines.Feminist Voice with Disabilitieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04971702402040080054noreply@blogger.com