Schooling and Gun Control

Individual Behavior (Self Defense) or Schooling Behavior Regarding Gun Control

Here I set again having a thought that causes me to write another blog. The thought goes like this.

There is nobody who would tell you, you can not have a gun to kill an animal that is about to kill you or is threatening to kill you (self defense). We have a natural right to survive period. There maybe some far left wacko's, PETA types, who would gladly lay down their lives and become a meal for an animal but most would not think that was a good idea. The whole history of man has us killing animals and eating them, not just for sport but for our Self Defense and therefore survival of the species. So the history of killing animals and exercising our natural right to survive (self defense) has enjoyed broad support through out history. If it had not we would not be here now. This activity (self defense) has roots in the beginning of our species and our DNA.

Since the days of Rome there has been a tenuous relationship between our natural right to self defense and the governments monopoly on rule-making forcible compliance. They, the government, want to have the exclusive power to set and enforce rules and law. Since the earliest of times Government has always wanted to take as much of the self defense natural right away and replace it with their exclusive right to use force. The fact that there is a natural right to self defense is a fact of history and is embodied in our very existence. We do not survive without the natural right of self defense.

Now the next thought has to do with the current push for gun control and the governments push for limiting the exercise of the individuals natural right to self defense.

The same basic reasoning that supports the self defense argument (an individual act by an individual at a time when the collective, government can not or will not protect him from the threat) also supports gun ownership. So, why then do the anti gun lobbies, the pro government control lobbies, want us to loose the individual right and replace it with an exclusive regulation by government ? It is simple. All governments are threatened by an armed civilian population. The only real threat to any government , as many have noted in history (Jefferson, Hamilton, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin) is the populists ability to take away the governments power by force. Therefore, we the people have a truly important place in our form of democracy. They, the government rule only with our support. They do not govern by the exercise of unlimited power or by devine right. It is this relationship of government of the people that is at the heart of our freedoms. It is also embodied in the individuals right to act in a persons own best interest (self defense).

It is obvious that gun control is an attempt to lessen the individuals right of self defense with a promise that the government, with its exclusive right to force, will be able to protect you in all situations. But why would anybody in their right mind support what is factually antithetical to our own natural right to self defense which is based on our natural right of survival. It is not factual that a government can protect in all situations. Governments are much better at legislating after the fact, and investigating after the fact. A government can not stand between you and a rapist, you and a murder, you and a thief, you and a pedophile, you and a suicide bomber, you and anybody who is determined to harm you. The fact is the government can not legislate away any given human behavior. The fact is the only person who can act, in real time, in your self defense, is you.

So how is it that, with all the facts, historical as well as well as natural, do we find our selves in this argument. This is a question that has escaped my understanding since I became aware that their was a serious attempt at reducing the right of the individual to self defense. So recently, it has occurred to me that the process in the current political discussion is to co-opt the individuals right to self defense based on fear not on fact.

Now the action of self defense is at its heart an action based on fear. The fear of loss, harm death, survival. The fear of guns by those who would take them from you is based on fear as well. Fear for their own survival, and based on a promise by the government that can not possibly be true. The governments promise, that the government will protect you is false on its face. So the government must scare you into believing that the gun world needs to be controlled by them.

Schooling Theory

The fear of guns is central emotion that motivates gun controllers.

Try to follow this thinking. If I am a minnow in a school of minnows what is it that I fear most?. One would think that one would fear the enemy, the shark that would feed on me. However, that is not true because that fear would be an individual fear motivating subsequent self defensive behavior which would then be an individual behavior. The school does not tolerate individual behaviors. In fact the very thing the school says it will protect, is the collective mechanism the school uses to control the school. For example: The school requires you to turn left when the school turns left. If you do not turn left (a collective behavior) and turn right, you then get ate. So if I am a fish in a school my whole focus is on making the next move just as everybody else, because, I have bought into the collective thought that the school can protect me if I do exactly as it says, when it says. The obvious loss of self , in the school, is the loss of the choice to act in self defense (a natural right). Now lets consider what the school ultimately does to protect itself. The fact is the more members of the school the less likely you get ate. So the school is constantly recruiting new members. It is this recruitment that is at the heart of today's political and media hype.

The recruiting lie is that the school (government) “can do for you what you can not do for yourself. Is all you have to do is to join the school (vote for us) and we will reduce your risk of being eaten by” ___%. It seems reasonable on its face. Replace your fear and individual natural reaction to the fear, with the fear of not doing what the school does when the school does it. The school recruiting lie is supported by arguments that are emotionally compelling, with the aid of in your home based images (TV) of dead and dying children, sick and dying elder, homelessness, disease and filth. Projecting a macro view of a hostile environment and a local view that the next gunshot maybe in your home. This of course is the product of the wedding of media, money and progressive thinking.

The 24/7 constant news cycle playing the (join the school lie) has led to a wide acceptance of these lies as fact, and has put at risk our natural right of self defense and is at the same time placing an imbalance on the possibility that the government could govern by the exclusive use of force. One of the most telling of the collective lies about violence is the behavior from the early 70's on Airplanes during a hostage take over. The lie was the passengers were to do nothing in a hostage situation because it would in danger the rest of the passengers. So hostage passengers sat by while they waited for the government to save them. We had as a society given away our freedom to act independent from the government . We had given away our freedom to act in our own self defense. On 9/11 this notion took a big hit with the passengers taking back the United Flight the crashed. Subsequently passengers have acted, since 9/11 in their own best interest on many occasions on airplanes have been able to stop terrorist in their tracks. The entire history of human society supports this conclusion. Of course, once the government obtains the exclusive use of violence, there is only one ending and that is after great suffering by the people. The people will rise to take back by force what is theirs in the first place. Just check out recent history. Of course the greatest lie of all is that this could not happen in America. The fact is it is already happening.

This is the question that brings to mind a school of fish. Now schooling theory as a defensive means to staying alive has its place. It is even effective for the mass majority of the schools members. However, for a percent of the school it is devastating as in death. Now the schooling theory is based on a couple of notions. The contract with you has some of the following elements: The school will provide for basics. Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Safety. For the provision of the following you only have to follow a few simple rules. The closer we stay together and do not break ranks the better our chances are at not being selected by the hunter for dinner. Of course, a corollary to this notion is the greater the number in the school the less the chances are of being selected. Further it is important to the school that behavior be consistant. Group movement is required. So, Closeness together, number of members in the school, group behavior, and chance seem to be some of this theories basic elements.

Not only does the school theory of survival have direct requirements for membership it also has some unintended requirements. For example, you not only join the school but you also have to give up an number of personal liberties prerequisite to belonging. These are never stated..You also have to change your view of the world and have major changes in how you will conduct yourself in this world as a member of the school. At each stage of belonging you give up major individual natural rights (freedoms) that will not be returned to you. The freedom of individual action. The freedom of self defense. The freedom of individual thought. The freedom of association with who you like. The freedom to confront the powers to be. The freedom to move freely in your society and many more.

No matter what your actions were before joining the school your actions will now be governed by the actions of the school. Even if you want to turn left you will not be allowed to unless the school turns left. You give up, in order to join the school, all your instincts, wants, desires, wishes, hopes, dreams, and every part of being and individual. You become only a small insignificant part of the whole collection of members. Remember the promise is to provide Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Safety. And, why in the fish world would you do this. Simple, your belief system is completely based on the fear that the school knows best on how to keep me alive and will provide for all my needs. Therefore, I become willing to give up all my individuality just for the promise that my chance of dying (survival ) is less if I belong to the school. Of course if my chance of dying is 1 out of 100 then 1 out of 200 is even less. So the bigger the collective the better my shot at survival. 

 

Conclusion; Today I believe that there are more in the fish ball (school) than ever before in American History. The countries founding philosophy based on individual freedom and freedom from governments interference in our daily lives, has been given over to participation in the School (collective) for the free Food (food stamps), Clothing (welfare) , Shelter (subsidized housing) and Saftey (take the remaining natural rights away), subsidized everything. Pull down the top and pull up the bottom (redistribution) and end with one class. The School.

Quotes of the Year

‎"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero, 55 BC