Comments on: “Revolution Is A Warm Gun”: Arun Gupta http://c4ss.org/content/18371 building public awareness of left-wing market anarchism Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Tamfang http://c4ss.org/content/18371/comment-page-1#comment-157039 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:08:46 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=18371#comment-157039 “framing gun restrictions as part of the effort to limit police powers” might make them more palatable, but when any professional legislature passes a disarmament bill not riddled with police exceptions I’ll look for flying pigs.

]]> By: Dave Hummels http://c4ss.org/content/18371/comment-page-1#comment-157030 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:57:48 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=18371#comment-157030 Jonathan: "That the proposed laws would be enforced by exact same system they have just denounced does not seem to bother them."

Yes, I call this cognitive dissonance. All good points, Jonathan.

]]> By: Jonathan http://c4ss.org/content/18371/comment-page-1#comment-157029 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:16:25 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=18371#comment-157029 A majority of leftists- just the same as rightists- genuinely believe that the only way to truly change society is to seize control of it, preferably through the ready-made instrument of the state. For those who recognize some of the problems with the state- and even turn out to protest those ills, from time to time- they must also genuinely believe that once their side is fully in charge, all those problems will evaporate. As a result, one can be told by an earnest left-liberal that the whole system is racist and rotten, that the cops prey on the poor and minorities, that the state serves the corporate elite, etc.; the same person can, in practically the same breath, then plead for draconian gun laws, registries of private citizens, and greatly expanded police powers and actions. That the proposed laws would be enforced by exact same system they have just denounced does not seem to bother them. Now, if our earnest liberal were also proposing the sweeping reform of said system, with the addition of gun laws, it would make more sense- still problematic, but for other reasons. But usually, as it stands, this is not the case.

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