The gun culture of the states united is out of control. What do you mean? I mean, men on this land have become so cowardly, so afraid to be hit or hurt, that they will resort to “gun play” over the most trivial of things. Life is cheap right now.
Once upon a time, at least where I grew up, men would fist fight, not shoot each other, over a trivial dispute. The shooting only started in the late 1970’s. Now, road rage, arguments, parking disputes, all and sundry “petty,” are the excuse and reason to pull a firearm and attempt to take another’s life. The most dangerous person is a coward with a gun.
A coward will kill the entire room, just to be free from “perceived” harm. Fear of physical pain or injury overrides morality or rational. This is endemic in society now, both among police and regular citizens. People are scared while acting tough, and when the “tough guy” is challenged, his ego, and his fear will make him engage with a gun. He or she has no intention of “scrapping” or mixing it up. No, it has to be all about the gun play. When a coward has a gun, its equals trouble.
For example, there was recent incident where a man protesting was confronted by another man across the street. The man crosses the street and tackles a man who is armed. Does the man, and the plethora of bystander with sticks “beat him down?” Nope. the man scrapping pulled out a gun and shot him. A capable man, along with others, to whom he was with, apparently were so frightened of an unarmed man, that they stood by idly, did nothing to defend themselves; and the capable man, having no training, or rational, resorts to possibly lethal force. “He was defending himself,” says the naysayer. He was, but illegally. It was uncalled for.
If a man is fighting with another man, both unarmed, it is called, “mutual combat.” The men wrestling on the ground were engaging in such. To shoot someone, when not in threat of “life or limb” is unlawful. To rush someone from across the street is unlawful too. They both should be prosecuted. Why? Stupidity.
First of all, what does two people, on this land, look like fighting over what happens on another land? Think about it? This whole Middle East conflict is a foreign affair. We can voice our opposition to the genocide in Gaza, but not fight fellow countrymen about it. Fighting my brother for a stranger is asinine. George Washington, in his farewell address said this:
“...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions—by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained—and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”
https://www.georgewashington.org/farewell-address.jsp
Fighting and shooting fellow citizens over any political cause, religious cause, or any cause propagated by the media is just plain stupidity. It shows a lack of true clarity, a lack of comprehension, and a lack of legal or lawful justification. Let the devils fight, on their own lands. On this land we want Peace.
Lord have Mercy
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