Gun control is one of the most dangerous policies to liberty. In this video, I discuss a little bit of history, but mostly what I’m after is the current state of things and strategy.
The written version is here, if you prefer that.
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There are those who will make themselves willfully blind to ensure their viewpoints cannot be challenged. These people forget how important it is to consider secondary effects from any policy choice.
The good analyst, the good economist, looks at the long-term effects on groups that a policy indirectly affects as well as the direct, intended effects.
And subjugating liberty toward safety is a hole with no bottom.
I’m frankly surprised that this is becoming a viable topic. Secession is a hugely important part of liberty–it’s the ability of a person or a group to separate itself from a government that is not serving its purpose.
Yet at the same time, we need to be aware of inertia as a political force. If secession occurs in the U.S., we can expect that change to encourage some of the worst in government to seize as much power as possible.
Therefore, we need to support secession consistently (meaning even after a hypothetical U.S. national divorce) and work to avoid rapid polarization.
Anyway, this video is a short discussion on that topic.
Michael Rectenwald is an interesting guy who spent most of his life as a devout Marxist, only to turn over to the side of freedom quite recently. He spent a little time incognito as the “Anti-PC NYU Professor,” only to be outed and suffer a huge backlash.
He’s written a few books since then, and this is my short review of his book “Springtime for Snowflakes,” which is mostly autobiographical, but with a dash of flavor to introduce a few important topics, like Critical Theory.
…would still be just as vile.
What kinds of horrible things can the state get away with? Well, state agents can kill innocent people and get away with it. And if they declare some specific area a “war zone,” they can do it a lot, and the public doesn’t even usually care.
That’s why it’s up to those of us who love freedom to call them out for it, whenever they do it.
Here’s the article discussed in the video:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-admits-airstrike-kabul-killed-innocent-aid-worker-children-2021-9?op=1
One of the issues people often underestimate is the state’s tenacity at finding and punishing its critics. In this video, I discuss two cases, in Quebec and Minnesota, where a Chinese student made statements on the internet about the corruption of the Chinese government while living abroad, only to discover upon returning to China that they were in significant legal trouble.
Links to the two articles are:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/09/18/a-chinese-student-in-canada-had-two-followers-on-twitter-he-still-didnt-escape-beijings-threats-over-online-activity.html
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/31/prosecution-china-student-tweets-he-posted-while-studying-us-raises-free-speech