[extropy-chat] The Consensus

[R.Coyote]

"I have heard from a number of Americans how they feel it is..."

This is the base of your understanding of this issue?

"Universal and unlimited rights to own weapons does not... "

Thats not what we have here at all, this is quite an exaggeration.

Use of force is the LAST stage of a defense continuum, avoidance of danger
is the first, however one can never predict when and where danger may
strike, and many of us do not have the luxury to relocate to safer environs.

Anyway I don't feel comfortable to narrowcast my broad reservations of the
Consensus into the firearms issue,  And so to simplify things, I find your
manifesto generally very restricting on personal freedoms, and I yern for
even more freedom than we currently have now.

 If you refuse to take responsibility for defense of yourself or your family
that's your thing, but my families pistols would never be a threat to you,
my wife and I have lawfully carried out and about in public for many many
years and MAGICALLY nothing dreadful has ever happened.

Do yourself a favor and stop watching so many Clint Eastwood movies,
unfortunately the gun owners image is unfairly associated with the good ol'
boy bubba truck drivin wife beater crowd, most gun owners are not like that
or like Dirty Harry Calahan, any more than you Brits are all crossdressing
sillywalking Monty Python clones pip pip tally ho and all that rot.