GUNS



Introduction

Only in a Cooperative Society can there be full protection of 2nd Amendment rights, in a way that does not endanger human life or cause unnecessary violence. In fact, the present controversies over guns would find substantial relief in a Cooperative Society. Here's why:

  1. The stronger level of love and community between people would prevent many shootings in the first place. Non-violent mechanisms of conflict resolution would naturally replace violent mechanisms such as guns.

  2. Insofar as people purchase guns for self and home-protection, we would see a reduction in ownership, since society would be so much safer. Put another way, the occasions for employment of weapons would essentially disappear.

  3. Insofar as people purchase and use guns as expressions of mental illness, we would also see a dramatic reduction, since mental illness, itself, would dramatically decline under a love-centered, classless, moneyless, Cooperative society.

  4. Production and other economic activity in a Cooperative Society will occur to meet human needs and wants, not to produce profit. Thus, insofar as the United States, and the world, presently experiences a flood of guns and even military weaponry because gun manufacturers and distributors earn profit from such economic activity, we would see a reduction in such sales and the corresponding flood.

Indeed, insofar as we find truth in the adage "Guns don't kill people, people kill people," we would see an almost complete termination of people killing people, since people would no longer wish to, or need to, kill people. Thus would be the radically different character of a Cooperative Society. Improper gun use, and indeed all violence, are characteristic of the crime, fear, anxiety, and mental illness of capitalist society, and the consequent opportunistic profitmaking by gun manufacturers and associated industries.

In a Cooperative Society, artificial proliferation of guns and other weapons based on the relentless push for sales and profit, as well as personal fear and mental illness, would cease, and guns could finally take their proper place as legitimate instruments for sport and recreation. Indeed, only under a Cooperative system would the artificial stigma against guns disappear, and could there be full protections of 2nd amendment rights without opposition, or difficulty of any kind.

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A Cooperative Society will not void our hard-won civil liberties and various freedoms, but will, in fact, strongly enhance them, as can only occur when production for profit is eliminated. Moreover, a Cooperative Society will add to our freedoms what is perhaps the most important one, yet one we do not presently enjoy--economic freedom.




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