guns and violence

Gun Control, gun statistics, guns and violence, guns and violent crime, guns don't make you safer, guns make you dangerous, News, Quote of the Day, Uncategorized, violent crime in America October 9, 2022

Archibald: Carrying a Gun Doesn’t Make You Safer, It Makes You More Dangerous

We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need…

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aristotle hoplites, aristotle politics, Gun Nation, guns and freedom, guns and violence, guns protect the constitution, hoplites armed citizen soldiers, keeping and bearing arms protects constitution, News, Politics, Quote of the Day, right to keep and bear arms, Uncategorized December 29, 2021

It’s Time to Acknowledge the Association of Guns With Violence

  In the Politics, Aristotle explains how “heavily armed men” (hoplites) form the foundation of political order. Their violent coercion, even in the form of bloodless potency, overrides both the wealth of shiftless plutocrats and the…