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"The Gun Is Civilization"

 By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)


 Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and
 force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either
 convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of
 force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories,
 without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

 In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact
 through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social
 interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the
 personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

 When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use
 reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat
 or employment of force.

 The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal
 footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing
 with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a
 carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in
 physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a
 defender.

 There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force
 equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if
 all guns were removed from society. But, a firearm makes it easier for an
 armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's
 potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative
 fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

 People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the
 young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a
 civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful
 living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

 Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that
 otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in
 several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the
 physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

 People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute
 lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of
 it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force
 easier, works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger
 attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

 The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an
 octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply would not
 work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily
 employable.

 When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but
 because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I
 cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but
 because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those
 who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who
 would do so by force. It removes force from the equation. And that's why
 carrying a gun is a civilized act !!

 By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

 So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed
 and can only be persuaded, never forced !!

 

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