{"id":50,"date":"2013-01-04T00:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2022-01-19T02:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T07:15:42","slug":"whose-cold-dead-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Whose &#8220;cold, dead hand&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whose &#8220;cold, dead hand&#8221; were we supposed to remove their gun from? I&#8217;m ready! Maybe at least half of us citizens&#8230;peace persons of the US&#8230;are ready for a showdown at OK Corral!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, if Congress even had the temerity to create a Law to Ban Automatic Weapons from&#8230;get this: ownership, sale, purchase!&#8230;eeeek! what next? How about: manufacture, import, export? Where could such courage, such audacity lead? What vengeance would such foolhardiness wreak?<\/p>\n<p>Who would the Peace People trust to enforce this law?&#8221; And with what weapons? How many lives would need to be sacrificed in order to accomplish such a cataclysmic change in the long-standing traditional dilemma? That of the Wild West mentality VS. Civilized Society?<\/p>\n<p>This is simply a no-brainer &#8220;ethical&#8221; argument between the Right to Kill and The Right to Live!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>This essay by Jeffrey Sachs puts it well. Your comments are invited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/retreating-from-violence_b_2370743\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read the article.\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Sachs: Retreating From Violence in 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose &#8220;cold, dead hand&#8221; were we supposed to remove their gun from? I&#8217;m ready! Maybe at least half of us citizens&#8230;peace persons of the US&#8230;are ready for a showdown at OK Corral! Imagine, if Congress even had the temerity to create a Law to Ban Automatic Weapons from&#8230;get this: ownership, sale, purchase!&#8230;eeeek! what next? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanvalues.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}