12-15-2012, 08:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-15-2012, 08:53 PM by FireIceTalon.)
The problem is neither guns, nor is it human nature. Well, the latter might play a role to some degree, but not because our nature is some reserved innate quality that we cannot change (human nature for the most part is social, not biological - it is simply a reflection based on the given material circumstances of society; i.e. our social organization). Nor should be we be trying to create more strict gun laws to reduce tragedies like this - such people don't obey the law anyway. We should be focusing on understanding the human condition in relation to society more, and WHY people do these sorts of horrible deeds to one another in the first place. Simply blaming human nature, or calling for a need to have stricter gun laws is completely idealistic and has little relevance pertaining to both a solution or as an understanding to the functionality of objective social processes.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)