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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn armed society is the opposite of a civil society.
The Freedom of an Armed Society
By FIRMIN DEBRABANDER
The night of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., I was in the car with my wife and children, working out details for our eldest sons 12th birthday the following Sunday convening a group of friends at a showing of the film The Hobbit. The memory of the Aurora movie theatre massacre was fresh in his mind, so he was concerned that it not be a late night showing. At that moment, like so many families, my wife and I were weighing whether to turn on the radio and expose our children to coverage of the school shootings in Connecticut. We did. The car was silent in the face of the flood of gory details. When the story was over, there was a long thoughtful pause in the back of the car. Then my eldest son asked if he could be homeschooled.
An armed society is the opposite of a civil society. That incident brought home to me what I have always suspected, but found difficult to articulate: an armed society especially as we prosecute it at the moment in this country is the opposite of a civil society.
By FIRMIN DEBRABANDER
The night of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., I was in the car with my wife and children, working out details for our eldest sons 12th birthday the following Sunday convening a group of friends at a showing of the film The Hobbit. The memory of the Aurora movie theatre massacre was fresh in his mind, so he was concerned that it not be a late night showing. At that moment, like so many families, my wife and I were weighing whether to turn on the radio and expose our children to coverage of the school shootings in Connecticut. We did. The car was silent in the face of the flood of gory details. When the story was over, there was a long thoughtful pause in the back of the car. Then my eldest son asked if he could be homeschooled.
An armed society is the opposite of a civil society. That incident brought home to me what I have always suspected, but found difficult to articulate: an armed society especially as we prosecute it at the moment in this country is the opposite of a civil society.
An excellent philosophical discussions of the implications and absurdities of the kind of armed society that the NRA sees as a utopia.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/the-freedom-of-an-armed-society/?hp
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An armed society is the opposite of a civil society. (Original Post)
DanTex
Dec 2012
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)1. An armed society is an uncivilized society.
The simple declarative form suits me just fine.
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)2. An armed society lives in fear
No end to the fear you face when you face the armed society.
NC_Nurse
(11,646 posts)3. I thought this was an excellent piece. Thanks for posting it.