A few days back I stumbled on a pro-RKBA site and now I can't locate it to provide a link.
The gist of it was, the writer said they agreed with me on guns, but were otherwise "violently opposed" to me because I was "a social conservative."
If someone is going to violently oppose me, I at least deserve to merit the violent opposition.
Someone reading today's posts--which just kind of happened because I was sent the links by readers--might get exactly the opposite impression.
To set the record straight--I am, for the most part, a personal conservative, with occasional lapses accounted for by my status as a flawed human being.
The gist of it was, the writer said they agreed with me on guns, but were otherwise "violently opposed" to me because I was "a social conservative."
If someone is going to violently oppose me, I at least deserve to merit the violent opposition.
Someone reading today's posts--which just kind of happened because I was sent the links by readers--might get exactly the opposite impression.
To set the record straight--I am, for the most part, a personal conservative, with occasional lapses accounted for by my status as a flawed human being.
So when I write about prostitution, I'm not endorsing it--I condemn it. I think it is immoral and degrading to both parties. I have never felt inclined to procure the services of one because I have always felt that way. But I will not endorse the use of government force to stop you--unless of course you remove volition or bring minors into it, and that's a whole 'nother story.
Likewise my observations on the drug war. By way of disclosure, I have one of my Red's Trading Post coffee mugs sitting before me as I type. Tonight I will have some Cabernet with dinner and enjoy a nice big bad-for-me maduro afterward. But I don't endorse using the other stuff (and know some cannabis aficionados will disagree with me, but sorry, it makes you stupid), and believe the obvious--the harder stuff is just plain bad for ya and bad for everyone around you.
So as a personal conservative, I am against flesh peddling and against drug abuse--I just happen
Likewise my observations on the drug war. By way of disclosure, I have one of my Red's Trading Post coffee mugs sitting before me as I type. Tonight I will have some Cabernet with dinner and enjoy a nice big bad-for-me maduro afterward. But I don't endorse using the other stuff (and know some cannabis aficionados will disagree with me, but sorry, it makes you stupid), and believe the obvious--the harder stuff is just plain bad for ya and bad for everyone around you.
So as a personal conservative, I am against flesh peddling and against drug abuse--I just happen
Likewise my observations on the drug war. By way of disclosure, I have one of my Red's Trading Post coffee mugs sitting before me as I type. Tonight I will have some Cabernet with dinner and enjoy a nice big bad-for-me maduro afterward. But I don't endorse using the other stuff (and know some cannabis aficionados will disagree with me, but sorry, it makes you stupid), and believe the obvious--the harder stuff is just plain bad for ya and bad for everyone around you.
So as a personal conservative, I am against flesh peddling and against drug abuse--I just happen to believe that non-coercive voluntary interventions by caring people would be more humane and effective at actually reducing abuse and rehabilitating lost souls than the present iron fist/grow more state tentacles methodology.
Because I also observe that government excess is bad for me and everyone around, too, and of the two threats, that's the more pervasive and destructive one, and the one I have the least ability to protect myself and my loved ones against.
So as a personal conservative, I am against flesh peddling and against drug abuse--I just happen to believe that non-coercive voluntary interventions by caring people would be more humane and effective at actually reducing abuse and rehabilitating lost souls than the present iron fist/grow more state tentacles methodology.
Because I also observe that government excess is bad for me and everyone around, too, and of the two threats, that's the more pervasive and destructive one, and the one I have the least ability to protect myself and my loved ones against.