MiddleAgedKen
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Some things it don't pay to advertise.
"Imagine yourself taking a stroll through Manhattan, somewhere north of 68th street, deep inside Central Park, late at night. It would be nice to meet someone friendly, but you know that the park is dangerous at night. That's when the monsters come out. There's always a strong undercurrent of drug dealings, muggings, and occasional homicides. It is not easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. They dress alike, and the weapons are concealed. The only difference is intent, and you can't read minds. Stay in the dark long enough and you may hear an occasional distance shriek or blunder across a body. How do you survive the night? The last thing you want to do is shout, "I'm here!" The next to last thing you want to do is reply to someone who shouts, "I'm a friend!" What you would like to do is find a policeman, or get out of the park. But you don't want to make noise or move towards a light where you might be spotted, and it is difficult to find either a policeman or your way out without making yourself known. Your safest option is to hunker down and wait for daylight, then safely walk out. There are, of course, a few obvious differences between Central Park and the universe. There is no policeman. There is no way out. And the night never ends."
If we ever get to that point I'll help make the guns. One can always conjure up extreme example in such threads as this to justify law breaking.
By then it'll be too late. In 1938 the Jews probably weren't too concerned about Hitler's special gun laws for them.
I suspect that most questions such as this one are designed not to cover the Warsaw Ghetto, but to justify breaking laws with which they do not agree.
Surely you must believe that there are bad laws that can reasonably be disobeyed. What defines a bad law to you? To me an example of a bad law would be one that takes away my only reasonable means of self-defense (a firearm).
If we want to take the most extreme examples then such questions, in my view, are a waste of time.
I cannot think of any likely scenario in this nation where making guns to fight the government will happen. If it came to that I doubt one or a group would be able to make enough to do anything. It would take outside help as in WWII, and who might be a nation that we would trust and want to destroy our government and install theirs?
I think I'll leave it at that.
Where the OP is from no one is allowed to own firearms. Period. Violent crime is on the rise and they have no way to protect their families. Those are laws just begging to be broken.
Regards,
Jerry
The question is:Surely you must believe that there are bad laws that can reasonably be disobeyed.
Note that, when most of the laws we notice on a daily basis have no foundation in real "right and wrong", a general notion of respect for the law becomes not only less likely in the population, but nearly impossible for the thinking person. And when we follow these laws not because they correspond with a sense of morality, but rather just to avoid punishment, it becomes clear that we live under a petty tyranny.
And when we follow these laws not because they correspond with a sense of morality, but rather just to avoid punishment, it becomes clear that we live under a petty tyranny.
ArmedBear:
And when we follow these laws not because they correspond with a sense of morality, but rather just to avoid punishment, it becomes clear that we live under a petty tyranny.