A man got so upset over a crying 2 year-old on an Albuquerque city bus that he sliced the kid's mom's friend with a knife. He demanded that the mom make the kid stop crying. As if one person is responsible for and can control the actions of another. Then, when the mom did take the only non-coercive path open to her (got off the bus before her stop), the aggressor couldn't just let her go, but got off as well in order to attack. Then, in a classic example of "mission creep", he used his knife to injure a third party who was not even the cause of his aggravation. This is the authoritarian mindset in action.
Every time someone advocates passing a new "law" to control non-coercive behavior they don't like they are following the same pattern as this aggressor. Every time their actions or "laws" injure a person who wasn't even directly engaging in the offending behavior they are guilty of the same thing as this attacker. Every time someone thinks people should be punished for offending them they are copying this thug's behavior to the letter.
This man should be held up as the new poster child of The State. Statists will never see themselves in him even as they continue to follow in his footsteps.
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That sort of behavior will cease when the intended victim properly defends herself. Which is, of course, why the "powers that be" are so eager to keep us all disarmed and helpless.
Somebody please buy this woman a gun and teach her how to use it.
Strange, I now have an error message of "The name you used belongs to a registered user". Guess someone else must have grabbed my "name". Maybe I should go with the authoritarian mindset and sue them right?
There's certainly more rage in the world and this certainly is sad. The number of authoritarians has increased dramatically. The old sticks and stones saying is for the most part dead, no pun intended.
Even if gun ban laws work and people can't get guns (which is fantasy), episodes like this still would happen. People would still use knives and other things to cause innocent people harm. Innocent people would still be harmed, because the powers that be still would have guns, nuclear weapons, and other worse weapons than knives.
- B
That "name" error seems to be going around a LOT.
The delusion that the "right law" can fix everything must be one of the most common signs of mental illness. There is no Utopia. The best that can be done is to stop punishing good people for defending themselves or possessing the proper tools with which to defend themselves. Of course, this scares the authoritarians who want to be able to deal misery without suffering the rightful consequences.
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