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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]logosoco
(3,208 posts)it makes me think of the rights that have been fought for in recent history. Women fought for and won the right to vote, without violence. The right to obtain birth control and safe and legal abortions was not fought with guns.We got kids out of horrible working conditions, as far as I know the story, there were some deaths there, but society was fighting corporations there, not the government (although corporations were corrupting the process as they are now). The civil rights movement was carried out and onward without guns, they were very non-violent. Many of those fighters, standing up without guns, were killed with guns, but that was from a segment of society, not directly from the government.
So I do think that people can stand down tyranny without weapons. It seems like most of what it takes is for society to want them and allow them, maybe even more so than anything the government actually does. Ultimately, the government is us. When it is corrupt and tyrannical, it is because those members of society are using their influence in a stronger way. Money has a bad influence today, but, eventually and hopefully, it will be the shear numbers of people who don't have money that will change things. Will our ability to have arms help us win that fight?
We have all been tyrants to some extent.
This gun issue will turn into people fighting for their right to life soon because of so much violence. Most of which is from other members of society and not the government. (Although there is a lot of minorities being shot by police, that is something the majority needs to take care of).
Just my $.02
Peace