The Final Word

My blog about my life so I get the final word. My blog is no autonomy!

In the end my opinions about the libertarianism still hold true. Honestly when I first posted the last blog I was hoping to get into a discussion about ideologies; communism, capitalism, libertarianism, etc. But we immediately directly to gun control, not surprisingly. I think we all agree Casinos and drug bars next to schools are a bad idea but we certainly differ on gun control which does nothing to disprove my hypocrisy opinion.

As for the selfish nature of libertarianism and gun control specifically I'm going to end with this: If I loved guns as much as I loved comic books then I'd be one serious gun collector. So let's imagine that Lyman collects guns, if I were on my way to the gun shop two weeks ago and a genie popped out of my Happy Meal and told me "Lyman, if you take a psych evaluation, wait another month, change your intended purchase from an uzi to a rifle and registered all of those handguns you have there is a 20% chance that a terrible tragedy on the campus of Virginia Tech and the death of 33 innocent people will be avoided."

I'd do it and I'd do it without thinking twice about it. I know if maniacs want guns they are going to get their paws on them, I know crime can't be completely avoided. But even if there is a small chance that some of the thousands of people killed every year by guns could be saved it would be worth a little inconvenience for me.

Some think their personal right to bear arms is more important than that. It may sound harsh but that's how I see it.

Feel free to comment if you like but I might not answer. I'm on the road again away from my family and missing my boy's cute little double-chin immensely so I might not be in the mood to debate this further. Besides, we probably scared my poor mother away from the blog, I think this is the first time she's failed to comment on one of my posts. We're in St. Louis playing a private party tonight then heading to Cleveland to open for pretty-boy jazz trumpeter Chris Botti at a jazz festival. This should be great because while I don't particularly dig his playing his band is phenomenal. I'll be back in LA on Sunday so at least I'm not away from home for too long.