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It is remarkable to me how this question divides the political groups.Conservatives seem to accept the possibility that bad people might some day capture the political power and use that violence for their own benefit to such an extent that even the common man cries out, “Tyranny!”. For them, the gun, and the hope that some in the military and police would act half-way compassionately, remains their last defense.Progressives I’ve spoken with seem to largely divide themselves into two groups:One group simply refuses to believe that the thoroughly modern rulers in their countries would ever badly abuse their violent powers. Rulers may do bad things, but “democracy” will inevitably prevail. The massive abuses of the 20th century that saw the largest losses of lives (rulers killed 250M of their own citizens and another 125M of us in their wars) were in countries where they simply weren’t as advanced or as sophisticated or as modern or as progressive or as democratic as us.They seem to be unable to generalize their agony with Trump to a regime that might be actually fascistic.The other group seems to believe that it doesn’t matter any more whether rulers tyrannize us or not. We are so out-gunned by our rulers that they can pretty much do whatever they want with us. We are already thoroughly subjugated and we have no choice. Resistance would be futile. Were we tyrannized, we’d have to just hope that our rulers don’t hurt us too badly, or that it didn’t last too long.Perhaps they believe that shrieking in the streets, hitting peaceful people with bike locks or pouring urine on the heads of workers would convince tyrants to leave their seats of power?We libertarians are much more worried than conservatives about protecting ourselves from tyrants, and we arm ourselves fairly heavily, believing that guns in the hands of the people are our ultimate protection against an ever-present threat of tyranny.For us, the political process itself is psychopathic, set up perfectly to usher psychopaths into seats of tyranny. The most dangerous, the least ethical human beings will naturally flock to capture the overwhelming violence of the state so that they can easily enslave hundreds of millions of people for their projects through the political process.Of course, the most authoritarian folks (whether left or right) imagine that it will be they in the seats of ultimate political power, backed by the resultant monopoly of all the guns, or that they will at least be whispering into the ears of those ultimate rulers who have all the guns, whom they assume will be just like them (and never like Trump, or Kamala, or Hitler, or Stalin, or Pol Pot, or …). So, for them, they don’t see “gun control” as really giving up their guns; they’ll just defanging those over whom they should naturally rule. <0752>Tl;DRSo, the validity of this argument depends on your perspective of your relationship to your rulers.If you think of your rulers as forever and ever being benevolent, omniscient, prescient, altruistic demigods, you will scoff at any suggestion that it would be prudent to protect your family from those whose business is to threaten deadly violence against them to force them to labor for them.If you think of politics as a process that self-selects for the most evil, psychopathic, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, mass murdering human beings on the face of the earth, protecting against tyranny by being very well armed will always be very valid.See Related:1436: Is money is the main motive of any political activity?1434: Why does the US let people have guns?1426: What are the main objections to libertarianism?1418: How can I explain libertarianism to someone?1172: What is the strongest argument against libertarianism?0834: What are the best arguments against gun control?1236: Summarize the arguments for and against gun control in a couple of sentences.0940: Could the Holocaust have been avoided if its victims had had Second Amendment Rights?1286: Why oppose red flag laws?1173: What aspect of "big government" frightens libertarians?1294: Are most politicians psychopaths?0946: Which violation of your rights would cause you to disobey your ruler?0752: What made you switch from anti-gun to pro-gun?1391: What would it take for you to switch sides on the gun control debate?1416: When should a peaceful person be a victim of government violence?1381: What is the most common political philosophy?1178: Why don't anarchists move to stateless societies to live their dream?→ More Essays on <Guns and the NRA> by Dennis→ Return to the <Table of Contents> for Dennis’ Libertarian Musings<, Guns, GovViol, Slavery,>

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What If It Were Just Another Gang of Men?Would Americans actually shoot robbers if violent robbers broke into their homes to steal what they had labored so hard to create?Would Americans actually shoot committed murderers if murderers aimed their guns to threaten the Americans’ bodies with death?Who Is Initiating Violence?Your question confuses the initiation of violence with protection from violence. It is no wonder that you do not understand the need for protection: you are conflating protecting one’s body as an initiation of violence!But if you were to sit down and spend a bit of time to distinguish in your mind who is initiating violence and who is protecting themselves from violence initiated against them, you would then understand our American perspective.But if you continue to invert the person being violently violated with the person initiating the violence, you will never understand our perspective.It’s Not That Hard to Figure OutIf rulers send their thugs out to steal our property — thugs heavily armed with guns, thugs who have been trained to rapidly escalate violence until either they possess our property, or we lie dead, or we have been beaten, subdued, chained, kidnapped, and caged inside their rape prisons — who is the one initiating the violence?Is it the American who just hours before was sitting quietly and peacefully in her own home, keeping the gun she purchased with her past labors by her side to protect herself from thieves, from rapists, and from murderers?Or is it the thieves and murderers driving up in assault vehicles, battering down her door, killing little Noodles as he yips his desperate warnings about the black-booted thugs suddenly attacking her mistress’ home, aiming their deadly weapons at her children (even babies lying in cribs), shooting anyone who seems at all “threatening” (when it is so obvious they are the ones doing the threatening), and beating, chaining, and kidnapping any innocent in the building whom they do not shoot.What Are the Universal Human Ethics?Here’s the operational ethic for your review:You own your own body, fully and exclusively. Otherwise, you are nothing but a slave.No one may ethically initiate attacks on your body. It is your body. Someone initiating violence against your body is trying to take your body as his own. They are trying to enslave you.If someone does attack your body, then they are the ethically evil ones, and you may ethically protect against their violation of your body with commensurate violence.You own anything that the labors of your body create, including your home and the gun that you purchased to protect your home from murderers and thieves.No one may ethically steal your body’s labors — even if your past labors are now stored in the property for which you labored. Such a theft would be they retroactively enslaving your body.If someone does try to steal your past labors (through the theft of your property), then they are the ethically evil ones. You may protect the (past) labors of your body by repulsing their theft of the labor of your body with commensurate violence.No one may initiate attacks on your body, nor steal your body’s labors, either directly or retroactively. This is a universal human ethic, applying equally to all humans, including anyone presuming to be your ruler.And it doesn’t matter one single bit who is the person who is violating your body, or stealing your body’s past labors. It doesn’t matter the title some people might have given them. It doesn't matter if they wear fancy hats or they have laid their hands on bibles. It doesn’t matter if they sport shiny badges.Constitution Irrelevant to EthicsThis ethic is true whether the US keeps its 2nd Amendment, or some authoritarian ruler like Beto replaces the entire Supreme Court with cronies to rubber stamp as “Constitutional” his violent assaults on peaceful, innocent Americans.These are the ethical principles whose protection makes us free men and whose violation makes us slaves. Without protecting these principles, our bodies are nothing more than the carbon-based property of our rulers.America Is Intentionally Different From Your CountryThe whole reason our ancestors left your countries to form our new country was because we didn’t like how your rulers treated your ancestors. <0546> Your ancestors accepted their rulers’ ownership of their bodies; but our ancestors did not, and that was the primary reason our ancestors risked their lives coming to a new country — to escape that slave relationship — and your ancestors stayed under your rulers’ thumbs — because they were okay with that relationship.And after all the intervening centuries, witnessing all the abuses and violations and thefts and maimings and cagings and killings by rulers, many of us descendant still don’t like that relationship.(But isn’t it great that there are quite different places on earth where people can decide for themselves which relationship to have with their rulers. What if we traded people so that those comfortable here with this relationship could remain comfortable, and those preferring your relationship, could become more comfortable?)But this is why we keep our guns: to ensure that what your rulers are going to do to you, won’t happen to us.See Related:1434: Why does the US let people have guns?1438: Is anti-tyranny still a valid reason for the right to keep and bear arms?0946: Which violation of your rights would cause you to disobey your ruler?0730: Why doesn’t the military go house to house to confiscate guns?0427: Why do some Americans think gun ownership is an absolute human right?1057: Would the American military nuke American citizens who were defending their right to own guns?1236: Summarize the arguments for and against gun control in a couple of sentences.0684: Why is living in the US so much more dangerous than any other western country?1418: How can I explain libertarianism to someone?0973: What is the single best argument against gun ownership in the US?0976: What gives me any right to own my property?1391: What would it take for you to switch sides on the gun control debate?1173: What aspect of "big government" frightens libertarians?1286: Why oppose red flag laws?0752: What made you switch from anti-gun to pro-gun?0853: May you ethically kill someone who is destroying your property?0979: Who has the greatest amount of authority in a libertarian society?0693: Why are Americans proud of their Constitution yet suspicious of their federal government?0546: When did Americans start disliking government?→ More Essays on <Guns and the NRA> by Dennis→ Return to the <Table of Contents> for Dennis’ Libertarian Musings<, Guns, Slavery, GovViol,>