. . . There would likely be a great spike in murders and other gun-related deaths until society could adjust.
And in a democracy, they wouldn't get a chance.
So the best way forward is a gradual introduction of what liberty, justice and rights are.
But in a democracy, that would never get a chance.
In my timeout I've thought about this point you made.
In the US we had a time when we had to fix an immoral law, the abolition of slavery. This had similar portents of chaos, and many people argued similarly to you, but you know what happened instead?
The federal government forced the South to recognize, affirm, protect, and defend the inalienable rights and the civil rights of poc.
After the Civil War, until 1876-1877, federally imposed Reconstruction worked. From 1877 racist southern lawmakers regained legislative power and made laws that wound up being the same laws that MLK in the 1960s crusaded against.
So counterintuitively in order to ward off the chaos when liberating people from unjust laws all of a sudden, you focus on the lawmakers, and watch them like hawks, and then you work against the illegal laws that they try to make anyway, and you use federal power to do it.
What Republican party led federal Reconstruction did in the South immediately following the abolition of slavery would be hailed as a miracle if it were to happen today. poc were instantly treated as equals, because and only because they were treated as equals under the law, which was being actively presided over by federal power.
The tension was between the feds, who were Republicans, and the southern racists, who were mostly descended from English families, and who were Democrats. These Democrats are those responsible for the racist laws against which MLK campaigned against in the 1960s.
It's not a perfect parallel. To be parallel the part of the Democrat southern racists would be played by proponents of 'gun control,' and the only people today who can be said to play the role of the 1865-1876 Republicans are branded "extremists" by some of the racists.
I mean the gun haters. I mean the proponents of gun control. I mean the opponents of the Second Amendment.
I mean the gun control proponents. These are the people who are today playing the role of the racist southern Democrats of the period after the Civil War. They do not want poc to have rights. As soon as they liberated from federal power, they made racist laws right away. It was like a legal nuclear assault. poc probably should have evacuated the South, but they weren't in any position to do it.
Chaos was undeniably predictable if slavery was abolished instantly, instead of gradually. And yet it was immoral to permit slavery to persist for a moment longer than necessary, and in this case it was immoral to consider avoiding the inevitable chaos from instantly abolishing slavery, by Not instantly abolishing slavery. This was not an option.
And so instead Republicans used super majority power in the federal government to force the South to abolish slavery, and to maintain that justice, and not let it decay gradually through diminuting laws robbing poc of their rights, little by little, one by one.
1. It worked. For as long as the federal government forced the South to comply with the requirement that they were always recognizing, affirming, protecting, and defending the rights of all poc, it worked.
2. As soon as the Republicans lost power in Washington. As soon as that happened. Right away. Racist laws as far as the eye could see were made in the South. The South became hell on earth for poc, in a snap.
It's not a perfect parallel, since there weren't any people getting murdered back then OH WAIT THERE WERE. Actually there was a lot of murder, but they were only poc, so Republicans didn't care BUT WAIT NO REPUBLICANS PRESIDED OVER RECONSTRUCTION. The murders happened when the Republican federal government forced the racist southerners to recognize, affirm, protect, and defend the inalienable and civil rights of poc. OH WAIT NO. The murders happened AFTER Reconstruction was undone, THAT'S when the murders happened. When rights were being violated, that's when the murders happened. Not when lawmakers were forced to defend rights, but when they Weren't forced to defend rights, did murder prevail.
In the South.
Today gun rights of poc are targeted. In the effort of course the gun rights of white people, of lgbt people, of women, of oldsters and of youngsters, are also targeted, since it'd be too obviously racist to make laws against only the gun rights of poc.
This is also why the proponents of gun control never mention the chaotic murder rate among communities of poc, because to them they're only poc, and nobody cares if poc get murdered, to them. If they cared they would ignore massacres only involving white people, the total number of victims of which is dwarfed by the poc who are murdered regularly.
Did you know that there were 48 people today killed or bullet-wounded in El Paso, and the same number of people were killed or bullet-wounded in Chicago over last weekend? And nobody cared or said anything about that, because it was mainly poc, but today in Texas there were white people there.
It was revealed that President Ronald Reagan was a racist last month, a telephone recording between him and then President Richard Nixon, where both men were racists, made it abundantly clear. It shouldn't have come from out of the blue: Reagan while governor of California signed into law the "Mulford Act," a purely racist gun control law, approved of by white racist Californians because poc were 'acting uppity,' flagrantly (yet lawfully and peacefully) exercising their right to bear arms publicly. Reagan squelched the poc 'acting up' by violating their inalienable right to bear arms, and all of white racist California approved of it, all the way up to today---the Mulford Act is still law in California.
A racist law, targeting poc, and California hasn't done a single thing to repeal it since then, not even now that it's perfectly clear that Reagan was a racist.
This is typical of racists today. They are secretive. And they today, just like in the 1800s, do not care about anybody's rights, and, just like in the 1800s the only solution to them, is to force down their throats that they will defend all the rights of poc, whether they like it or not, and it will work, and the world will be better for poc, if we force the racists, especially the lawmakers, to obey.
That's what the Republican party did in the 1800s. They were glorious. Now we've got Ronald Reagan is a Republican. What a sad joke. He would have been a Democrat in the 1800s, and in fact one of the things he said was that 'the Democrat party left me.'
President Donald Trump is an 1800s Republican, and he is not racist. There's no evidence that he is racist. And what I mean by racist is someone who approves of laws that violate the inalienable rights or the civil rights of poc. President Trump is absolutely not a racist.
So yes, it appears that suddenly permitting human liberty to wash ashore like a tsunami, will bring chaos with it, but we know from a parallel experience that there is a solution to that problem, and we know that it is to force rights-violating lawmakers to defend rights in the laws they make. They cannot be permitted to make laws that violate inalienable rights or civil rights of anybody.
That will avert the chaos, as it did do during federal Reconstruction of the South. If it wasn't stopped, there isn't any reason to believe that federal Reconstruction would have turned the South into non-racists in due time, and we Americans wouldn't have to still be dealing with racists, now lurking here and there hidden from sight, but they can't hide forever, and when they do come out into view, they do so by making laws that violate human rights, of poc. Gun rights are human rights.
