What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Gun Control
Very good article and the writer nails the problem perfectly. As usual, the secular left's spiritual/moral barometer is about as deep as a mud puddle, so leftists are stuck on stupid -- that is to say, on the
least meaning level of argument, which is the object level.
I have a theory on why the left doesn't want to go any deeper than this. But for now, I'll hold that opinion to see how this thread runs.
It's long read, but a good thought-provoking one. I've quoted some excerpts below.
A social ill takes place on three levels: the object level, the individual level, and the social level.
Take alcoholism. There’s the object, alcohol. There’s the choice that the individual makes to drink the alcohol. And, finally, there’s the social problems that can be blamed for widespread alcoholism.
The gun control movement operates in the same object-oriented space of the prohibitionist movement. For prohibitionists, the problem was gin. For the gun control movement, it’s all about the guns. Get rid of the gin and the guns, and the underlying problem goes away without having to do anything else....
And object-oriented prohibitionism is the least meaningful way of looking at a social problem....
Usually, the Left loves root causes. It can trace any individual dysfunction to the problems at the heart of a society. But when it comes to guns, it refuses to look past the physical object, while blaming everyone responsible for the existence of guns, from firearms manufacturers to the NRA. But blaming everyone involved with the existence of an object is not an examination of the root causes of its misuse....
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/201...el-greenfield/
