Really?

[james_davis_nicoll]

"leftist SF critic James Nicoll"? Leftist?

Comments

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Breitbart is all of that. More, Breitbart knew how to inspire, in a way that Beck does not.

I am not Breitbart, no. But I wish I was, and I strive to be.

Oh this is incredible. I am literally laughing out loud.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Wow. I disagree with refugee50s' politics, but I never assumed he was a bad person because of that. But, man. What a colossal jackass.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Oh, from the very moment I first heard that that he feels extremely uncomfortable, to the point of believing himself enslaved, whenever he is not secretly carrying the means to murder all of the people around him at any moment he feels it would be convenient, I was absolutely certain of his posterior equinanity.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

At some point this should be expanded into a short essay in favor of open carry.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much that he was in favor of guns - which, hey, some guys like guns, whatever. It was the way in which he expressed the need for them -- that, in context, the only way a human being can be free is if he undetectably carries the means to kill other people. Sole criterion.

The equating of freedom with murder was the unsettling bit.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

While I don't agree with him, your "equating freedom with murder" is unhelpful hyperbole, unless you think killing someone who is actively trying to kill you is murder. He'd see it as equating freedom with a right to self-defense, which is rather different from murder for most people.

Of course, it's funny how the Western country with the most weapon rights is also one of the ones least free with regard to drugs or prostitution...

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

The self defense applications can only be improved by a substantial percentage of the population wearing their weapons openly, right? And the ones who don't, well, maybe they're packing concealed weapons and maybe not. The uncertainty of the potential offender benefits the society as a whole, right?