Opinion
“Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~ ML King.
“Dangerous Knowledge” or “Dangerous Ignorance?”
My esteemed friend and colleague, Tim Kelly, owner of Apache Solutions Firearms Training in Yadkinville, NC, is about to publish a book about children, parents, and guns. I’ve just reviewed the draft, and it is excellent. It will shortly become the reading that I recommend.
It struck me as I was reviewing Tim’s first draft:
As they become tall enough to reach that high, we routinely teach our children not to touch hot stoves.
At about the same time, we teach them not to run in front of moving vehicles, not to swallow various liquids they discover in the cabinet below the kitchen sink, and not to play with electrical wiring.
A host of dangerous things and life-threatening circumstances are inherent to Planet Earth and to our civilization in particular. As parents, we do our best to guide our developing children through this perilous world, yet we do not “protect” them to the point where they never discover anything for themselves.
Accordingly, I find it curious that those who are opposed to personal freedom, while carefully teaching their children about hot stoves and moving cars, vehemently refuse to teach them about, nor even acknowledge the existence of, guns!
Guns are surely dangerous and “in our world” too, aren’t they?
How can pretending they don’t exist be helpful?
Yet, those opposed to personal freedom insist that there is “safety in ignorance.” With them, the more ignorant we are, the safer we are!
While these leftists never pass up a chance to vilify guns and gun owners, they admittedly don’t know what they’re talking about. They themselves are utterly incapable of handling guns appropriately, and they’re proud of it. Similarly, they can’t identify one gun from another.
All they know for sure is that they hate guns and anyone who owns one, and they naively (and desperately) want all guns, all knowledge of guns, violently legislated/regulated out of existence.
Yet, they lack a parallel animosity toward cars, swimming pools, portable fans, hot stoves, etc., and they know all about these other dangerous things and expertly how to use, live with, and enjoy them all, despite admitted peril inherent to every one of them.
But, when it comes to the subject of guns, it’s pretty obvious anti-freedom leftists don’t trust themselves (nor should they) and trust fellow citizens even less!
Leftists can’t imagine there is a place in this world for good and decent people because they are neither, and they know it.
“I had discerned ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.
I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others because nurturing that discourse was easy because retaining power always feels like the way forward.” ~ The Socialist Manta, articulated by Tara Westover.
/John
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Ignorance and a closed mind are necessary traits for selfish self centered, blue pilled world.
This sentence right here was worth the admission, I am going to steal it. “Leftists can’t imagine there is a place in this world for good and decent people because they are neither, and they know it.”
My uncle would beat the crap out of me if I swept him during a hunt. It worked pretty well lol.
Yeah we learned common sense with toy guns. You can’t even find a toy gun anymore.
The left who dominates our schools and teaches our children doesn’t like guns or anyone that owns one so their way of combatting that is to teach one message, guns and gun owners are bad.
I really hope that Trump dismantles the indoctrination system. I would like God to be put back in schools like Texas is doing and that safe gun handling be taught like in the Eddie the Eagle days. I haven’t heard about him in years.
Agree training a child to be responsible is far more effective then just hiding things from them