Some of the highest crime jurisdictions in the U.S. have the most stringent gun-control laws. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
armed societies are polite societies
one of the core differences between the dullard and the galaxy brain is the number of orders to which their thinking extends.
the truly dim bulb barely comprehends cause and effect.
the truly astute think in 3rd and 4th order effects and in “general case” solutions.
as so often seems the case, the issue is the midwit.
i am coming to the inescapable conclusion that there is some sort of dunning krueger effect for midwits where they are irresistably drawn to building mountaintop fortresses atop mount stupid. they presume themselves to be engaging in complete thought because they have arrived at some rudimentary understanding of cause and effect and are using it to bray “nuh uh!” at people and play at contrarian.
i fear this is an increasingly trained reflex, the specific sort of barking that one gets from a specific kind of seal sent to university and sold a bill of goods about “you are an intellectual and a thought leader now” despite being mired in the callow gotchaball of first order thinking.
“aha!” they superciliously proclaim. “i have some angle on first order matters that you have no considered!” they play this like it’s a laydown hand.
I just assume that everyone is armed or don’t start none and there won’t be none.
You can open carry here and some stores say no and some patrons don’t care.