The following paragraph from Jimmy Buff is enlightening regarding the psychology of anti-gunners:
My push for better gun control, for instance, comes not just from a philosophical place but from one of fear and loss of control. Gun violence in schools terrifies me, and a way to get that terror under control is to speak out about it. It seems like an action when I feel impotent to do anything else. The same is true for man-made climate change. Feeling powerless to prevent the world environment from going haywire – no matter how many cans I pick up from the street to recycle — I instead speak out, in the hopes that by doing so my fear for the world our children will inherit is lessened somehow. I am doing something. Whether that is an illusion or not, only time will tell.
Source: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/06/22/jimmy-buff-green-life/10954899/
Control is an illusion, your 401k can become a 201k, your social security benefits could be cut in half tomorrow, an earthquake could come and destroy your home. Survivalists and other realists prepare themselves for bad situations. Indian women for example are carrying knives to prevent rape (getting a legal gun is very hard in India), they can’t demand that rape be banned because rape is already banned, and they also can’t demand to teach men not to rape because some men will always rape.
I am afraid of crime, yet I don’t feel impotent because I do something about it as an individual, I carry a gun. I don’t wait for the State, the courts, and the cops to solve the problem. Maybe my way of viewing the world isn’t popular anymore, look at all the people on food stamps, all the ones that support Obamacare, support raising the minimum wage. They’re looking for someone else to save them, just like Jimmy waits for the politicians to pass laws that only affect the good guys with guns, not the bad guys with and without guns.
If Jimmy considers himself a scientists, perhaps he should read the evidence against gun control in the book below.
