Why I'm learning to Fight

I like guns. But I never have (and never will) own one. I think it's just too dangerous to have one around the house, even with a lot of care. We're only human after all.

I used to play airsoft. I had the MP5, M4A1, and the P90... :) - Harmless

Harmless, its people like you who should own guns. That's the irony about them if you've heard the two cases of accidental gun death in the country months ago. Its the people who understand and are constantly aware of how much they are a responsibility who deserve the right to own one. In my understanding of the history of how meritocracies evolved, it was the freemen class's main defining characteristic was their right to bear arms. Comparing the history of France and England it was typical case study of how the critical mass of armed citizens were able to shift the balance of power towards meritocracies since power shifted from the elites towards the greater masses. In Game Theory, its like an exercise in equilibrium. In forum where every member has sufficient power, and no one has an overwhelming monopoly of it the tendency is to cater to the majority. Since all individuals have their own goals and payoffs, the tendency is to make sure that there is a fairness of distribution. Of course this only works when these contributing members are not so easily manipulated so you can factor in to the power education and not only arms. This for me exemplifies why the goal of a people is towards a humanistic and secular approach to organization and conflict resolution. As for guns and the right for the citizens to bear them in the case of the Philippines, the Pacifistic Mentality of leaving guns to the police and armies (or the politicians) is a detachment from the natural responsibility of a citizen to watch of the rights of his neighbor and his own. It is the citizen who maintains his rights and freedoms as well as those of his neighbors and family. The Police, the army and the Government are the natural extensions of order and specialization that is supposed to make the system run more efficiently. This equilibrium is what makes for a stable, human, and progressive state: and unfortunately the burden of responsibility is to every citizen capable of making a rational judgment. by extension that is where the concept of Citizen's Arrest comes from, that responsibility and the powers by which to execute such a task when faced by the circumstance. ...and as another small insert. ROTC and the training and maintaining civilians capable of taking arms in times of crisis would only have made sense if our middle class (before it shrank from 14 to 2% after marcos) and the working class all had arms. Imagine if someone Tried Martial Law, and CARP when the much of the population were able to throw their weight to what they felt was right.

-Quoting myself.

If you click on the title link you will understand why I choose to learn to fight. It is SOOOO EASY to give up and accept thing the way they are but that is the problem.

Democracy and one's rights are not handed to you on a silver platter. You fight for your right to be heard, exist and be happy. Thats why we work and thats why we vote. I'm disgusted by those who don't vote because they take forgranted a right their great grandfathers fought to have and just pee and shit on it like so much crap.

My mother would proclaim: "If you don't Vote you have no right to complain" and this I completely agree with her. Because, doing something is infinitly better than doing nothing (even mathematically).