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Good versus evil . . .

Posted by shy guy on 2018-February-19 18:37:49, Monday
In reply to The best way to stop a bad person with a gun... posted by Peanuts on 2018-February-19 08:25:29, Monday

Good versus evil is not an effective way to frame policy debates. Major social policies formed this way are pretty much guaranteed to fail and likely to produce the opposite of the intended effects.

There are more "good people" with guns in the US than anywhere else, by far. And what is the result?

Way more gun violence and gun murders and gun suicides than anywhere else.

Fail!

Who suffers? Predominantly, poor youth.

Who gains? Gun makers, and the politicians they own, laugh all the way to the bank.

The situation is very simple.

US politicians have been running "tough on crime" for decades, pledging to lock up the bad people. What did it get us?

It got us a whole lot of prisoners. Including a lot of the people on this board at one time or another. It wiped out families, it slowed the economy due to all the loopy "security" ideas that have proliferated through every aspect of daily life. The general sense of paranoia it fosters has accelerated the breakdown of community life.

But it helps the rich stay rich and get richer, it keeps them in control of the cops and that helps isolate "the system" from public protest.

The people of Argentina, Chile and Brazil know the script all too well.

Good versus evil, that's the true opiate of the masses.

sg

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