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AZ: Not all who bear guns are rational
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He may well have the skill, training, experience and psychological makeup to size up a situation correctly and then calmly act, but most sidearm carriers are not so qualified.
While it is necessary in this society for well-trained police officers and military personnel to bear arms, the many poorly trained civilian gun carriers, incapable of making calm, rational decisions in a stressful situation, terrify me.
A person openly carrying a firearm likely feels that he or she has the solution at hand to whatever is troubling him. "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail," Mark Twain wrote.
To a man with a gun, everyone looks like a target. |
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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. — Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942. (Source: "Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942", Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951).) |
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