Gun Control III

And yet, over here, in the UK, where we don't allow people to walk around with guns, that didn't happen last week. Or last month. Or last year. Or the year before that. And so on.You've pointed to a hypothetical. The evidence is to the contrary.

And nobody arms their armies with them either (although in our case, we'd probably go with cricket bats rather than baseball bats if we did).

I can guess what he'll say. It's the usual tactics of the wannabe fascists. They simply point to one of the fully evidenced arguments put forward by decent people, that refutes one of their lines of propaganda, and call it a conspiracy theory.They know they can't refute the evidence, but they also know that as long as their audience is unwilling or unable to review and understand the evidence (which in general they are), they will agree it's a conspiracy theory.The supporters of fascists will always swallow lies that paint them as superior to another section of society. Hence the wholesale swallowing of lies as risible as the children-eating Democrats. All our wannabe fascist will do is point to evidenced arguments and call them conspiracy theories. He won't convince us, but that's not his goal - his goal is to add to the sheer volume of lies that enable totalitarianism.

I'd rather remind people what Primo Levi, a Nazi Holocaust survivor said, after his liberation from the Nazi death camps. It's written in very large letters just inside the entrance to the Holocaust memorial and museum in Berlin, and has stayed with me ever since I visited there.

Of course you have. It's so you can keep your followers ignorant, under your control and feeling that they are "special", so you can carry on lining your pockets from them.

So what you want is a world in which you get to exercise your free speech, but we can't.