Comments by "Nanofuture87" (@Nanofuture87) on "Jubilee" channel.

  1.  @doodlewizrrd7929  That's only part of it. The right to keep and bear arms predates the revolution and has to do with the inherent right to defend yourself and your property. That hasn't changed, only shifted from who the primary threats are that you need to defend yourself against.
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  2.  @doodlewizrrd7929  Criminals and tyrants.
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  3.  @doodlewizrrd7929  Well you need to distinguish between a right and a privilege. Think about the right to free speech. Are there restrictions to it? Certainly, but those restrictions are based around directly causing harm. The right to keep and bear arms has similar restrictions (you can't just go around waving a gun at people for example). That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is having the government determine what sort of things you can say or who can speak in the first place. That would reduce speech to a privilege. Similarly, the government deciding what sort of firearms you can own and who can own them reduces that right to a privilege.
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  4.  @doodlewizrrd7929  Requiring an evaluation implies that the government has the authority to determine who can and can't exercise a right, but it doesn't. That's kind of the point. The thing to do about police shooting an innocent black man because he is armed is to fix the police, not disarm the black man. Mandatory body cams, civilian oversight in police departments, and ending qualified immunity would be good steps.
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  5.  @suicidecandy  History tells us a different story. If you ask a fascist, they will rarely say that they want to murder other races. They'll just say that they want to "secure a homeland for their people" and that this would be better for everyone. The reality is something very different, just like the reality of attempting to bring about communism is something very different from the propaganda that communists will tell you. Seizing the means of production and suppressing counter-revolutionary thought is bloody business.
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  6. Which country do you live in?
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  7.  @ryt25  Ireland absolutely has had mass shootings along with bombings.
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  8. It depends on what you consider to be a "problem." The number of deaths caused by mass shootings are basically statistical anomalies relative to other causes of death in the US.
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  9. It is though.
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  10. The first amendment was written back when the fastest way to send information was by rider on horseback. Should we reevaluate freedom of speech?
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  11.  @oscarlandgren411  Guns are used defensively much more often than they are used offensively, sometimes lethal force actually is needed to defend yourself, and the right to keep and bear arms is exactly that.
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  12.  @Bob-sx7iv  We don't have the same culture today as they had in wild west towns either. Do you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself?
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  13.  @Bob-sx7iv  Yet you haven't banned guns successfully in the US. How interesting.
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  14.  @Bob-sx7iv  No, you won't. We absolutely won't let you.
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  15.  @Bob-sx7iv  We've been finding it out and we are continuing to find out right now. You goons can't even get universal background checks passed at the federal level and you think you're going to get a gun ban?
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  16.  @Maksie0  They're both illiberal collectivist ideologies with shared roots that rose to prominence in the 20th century and subsequently failed.
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  17.  @delzerui4975  Err... no? None of those characteristics apply to liberalism. It's not illiberal, it's not collectivist, it didn't rise to prominence in the 20th century, and it didn't fail.
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  18.  @delzerui4975  It remains the dominant global ideology. Proto-socialist ideas have been around forever, but the developed socialism that gained power and influence in the 20th century came after what we identify as liberalism. Fascism is extremely collectivist.
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  19.  @delzerui4975  Liberalism is an entire ideology. Capitalism is the economic system associated with it.
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  20.  @delzerui4975  Fascism isn't narrow either, it covers a range of political philosophies (if you want to be generous enough to consider them philosophies).
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  21. Let people build more psychiatric hospitals so that people can actually get the treatment they need instead of being given some pills and sent on their way?
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  22. It sounds like the sensible solution is to improve the security in vulnerable locations rather than infringing on the rights of innocent people.
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  23.  @sbiiine  That's my point. They put up street barriers instead of banning trucks.
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  24. Are you not familiar with the concept of concealed carry?
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  25.  @jackcarroll6801  So you want people to just be helpless when a gunman walks in and starts shooting people?
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  26.  @jackcarroll6801  Shooting a would be shooter seems like a solution to me. I agree that we should solve the issue of gun violence, but in the meantime students and teachers shouldn't just be helpless sitting ducks.
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  27.  @jackcarroll6801  That's why teachers who carry a gun should train, just like everyone else who carries a gun.
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  28.  @jackcarroll6801  Yes, that's correct, which is why you train so that it's more muscle memory than actual thought. People fundamentally have the right to defend themselves and defending children is a good thing. I'm not saying that teachers should be forced to carry guns, but they should have that option.
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  29. You think advocating civil rights for African Americans is disgusting? Okey dokey.
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  30.  @makendestewart  Then you agree with the likes of the KKK that pushed for gun control to keep the freed slaves disarmed and helpless?
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  31. It's quite something how often you'll get called an emotionless sociopath for not wanting your natural rights violated.
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  32. That would just confuse socialism and social democracy even more.
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  33. Incidentally, your username is false.
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  34. You can either fathom individual liberty or you can't.
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  35. Gee, it's almost like medicine isn't the only safety related thing out there.
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  36.  @julestm4877  How is it not correct when it's a documented fact that people use firearms to defend themselves?
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  37. Just goes to show how thoroughly you've been conditioned if you can't even comprehend it.
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  38.  @Calcius  Because pepper spray and tasers aren't always effective. There's a reason militaries, police forces, and security details use guns rather than just pepper spray and tasers. Citizens in other countries can and do get victimized.
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  39. You can be victimized by criminals who don't have guns, and you've missed the fact that the police have guns. As a German, I would think you'd understand that the police aren't necessarily on your side.
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  40.  @marilenawestermann8707  It's a part of liberty. Besides just the general liberty to own property, the right to self defense is inherent to all individuals and firearms are an effective tool for that purpose. Police are not always around, often responding after the crime is already over. You are ultimately responsible for your own safety.
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  41.  @marilenawestermann8707  Whether I agree with that or not is irrelevant. Using collective safety as an excuse to infringe upon individual liberty and the ability to defend oneself is invalid.
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  42.  @marilenawestermann8707  Statistics will not save you if someone breaks down your door in the middle of the night and attacks you. Statistics will not save you if your government becomes tyrannical and decides you should be exterminated. A firearm just might.
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  43. Wouldn't be a very fair fight, America has way more of them.
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  44.  @harukaaoi169  We've seen the things European collectivism has wrought. I'll take individualism any day. Oh, and police don't spontaneously arrive when you call them. It takes time.
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  45.  @harukaaoi169  There's no such thing as free healthcare, and I was thinking more along the lines of the ever so wonderful collectivist ideologies that emerged from Europe and killed millions while trampling on even more.
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  46.  @harukaaoi169  Why I think what? That collectivism ideologies like socialism and fascism developed in Europe? Because they did. That universal healthcare isn't free? Because it's not, it's paid for through taxation which is the coercive taking of property. As for why healthcare is so expensive in the US, it's because we have a nightmarish mixed system with both private and public elements instead of just being private. Plus we are effectively subsidizing European healthcare systems with our research and development.
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  47.  @harukaaoi169  Yeah, it's called self defense. If someone is threatening you with serious harm, you have the right to stop them by any means necessary.
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  48.  @harukaaoi169  You shouldn't teach them that they are nice toys. You should instead teach them about firearm safety and about how they should never touch a gun without adult supervision.
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  49. The police still have guns. The military still has guns. Criminals still exist whether they have guns or not. It's not about "feeling" safe.
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  50. The economy is human lives. It's not just numbers on a chart, it's how people feed their children.
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