{"id":135052,"date":"2017-10-10T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135052"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:46:13","slug":"guns-escalation-dangers-quickly-available-lethal-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/guns-escalation-dangers-quickly-available-lethal-force.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns and escalation and the dangers of quickly available lethal force"},"content":{"rendered":"

One major problem with guns is that they allow for very fast, very easy, potentially lethal escalation of a situation.<\/p>\n

We see this all the time — the domestic dispute that gets out of hand, the suicidal impulse that has an effective solution in reach, the cop who feels endangered, all those kinds of scenarios. Having a handgun makes it so easy to turn to it when the adrenaline kicks in or something else happens to impair judgment.<\/p>\n

Like, for example, when you’re in a crazy tug-of-war over a school notebook when shopping for supplies for the young-uns.<\/p>\n

In this case, the gun wasn’t fired, but that the gun was even pulled<\/i> (by a woman with a concealed weapons permit) shows the danger.<\/p>\n

I don’t have an easy answer here. Just the observation that while easy access to lethal firepower means you can potentially protect yourself in case of imminent danger, a lot depends on having solid judgment about what constitutes danger and what’s an appropriate response. With great power comes great responsibility, as the man said. And because humans sometimes act stoooopid (as demonstrated by getting into a tussle over a freaking school notebook), the consequences of such power when misapplied can so easily become tragic.<\/p>\n


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\nWoman pulls gun in fight over school supplies<\/a><\/span>
\nA woman pulled out a gun during a fight over a notebook at a Walmart in Novi, Mich. on Aug. 28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One major problem with guns is that they allow for very fast, very easy, potentially lethal escalation of a situation. We see this all the time — the domestic dispute that gets out of hand, the suicidal impulse that has an effective solution in reach, the cop who feels endangered, all those kinds of scenarios. … Continue reading “Guns and escalation and the dangers of quickly available lethal force”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24000,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/when-you-have-tools-other-than-a-hammer.html","url_meta":{"origin":135052,"position":0},"title":"When you have tools other than a hammer","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Nov-11 6:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"... then apparently you use tools more. 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