Imaginos1892 wrote:Language is a tool. Just like any other tool, you should learn to use it correctly, lest you hurt yourself and others. I consider sloppy writing to be an indicator of sloppy thinking.
We have other tools also: over the centuries a number of methods have been developed to test ideas. Two that are too often honored more in words than reality are the scientific methods (several variations) and the judicial/historical methods (again several variations). Both, properly applied, require checking against reality, instead of rhetoric.
From: http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/07/18 ... sletterad=
Quite clearly, Newsom is factually wrong and author Robert Heinlein was proven correct: an armed society is a polite society.
The only places where we have significant, long-term pockets of violence in this Republic are in Democrat-led cities, and within those cities, they tend to be relatively small, hyper-violent areas where criminals living a “gangsta” lifestyle engage in a cycle of murder and retribution directly tied narcotics trafficking and turf wars.
Has anyone on this blog looked up the facts on this? Did Heinlein get this correct
It seems to me that much would depend on the culture - the gangsta groups are not polite. Some other cultures agree with weapons for defense and sports, but not aggression and retribution
