[lit-ideas] From New Scientists (Guns and Road Rage)
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:06:03 -0500
How appropriate. Individuals, countries, nothing changes.
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925373.800>http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925373.800
Does this really surprise you Andy?
Isn't this "study" rather like saying "a recent study showed that when 1000
people were examined, people demonstrating the propensity to have what
would be commonly referred to as a penis were almost without exception of
the male sex."
Of COURSE the possession of a gun makes you feel more able to be a
dickhead. That's what guns are for. Get with the program. The USA has all
the nukes and that's why they are the biggest dickheads. They don't want
other countries [who they don't want to be dickheads] to get nukes, because
then their status as being the biggest heads would wane.
BUT... on the other [more realistic] hand, there is a difference between
willing to use a weapon and WANTING to use one. This is what makes some
country's ambitions of owning nukes so terribly dangerous. They want to
develop nukes for ONE reason -- so they can use them on us. That is a very
dangerous place to be for the world. MAD doesn't work when one side is mad.
They don't care if they take the whole ship down with them. I think most of
us do and I don't think there is any dissonance in carrying a big stick and
never swinging it, all the while being perfectly willing and able to swing it.
never shooting the finger at drivers when I'm across the river in Detroit,
I remain, gunless,
Paul
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