As Twitchy reported earlier, actor and comedian Michael Ian Black wasn’t just reiterating on Sunday his belief that the Second Amendment should be repealed and replaced; he was also working on some sort of explanation of how private gun ownership creates slaves of those who are unarmed.
Just to follow up on this; when some of the population is armed with guns, they have control over rest of population. We willingly create a contract with armed police/military for security. We enter no such contract with civilians.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 25, 2018
Those civilians, through the threat or exercise of life-ending power, have control over unarmed civilians. That is a form of slavery.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 25, 2018
That was Sunday afternoon and, believe it or not, he was still going at it Monday night, though how well he clarified his thoughts is up for debate.
I’m saying an armed population keeps itself in a kind of self-induced slavery: the enslavement is metaphoric, not literal, and is an extension of a society enthralled with its own capacity to dominate and destroy. https://t.co/RteeL0ngKn
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018
So there’s self-induced, metaphoric slavery, and then there’s the slavery of a SWAT team surrounding your home.
When the SWAT team surrounds your defending your home with your AK, you are just as much their slave as I am defending mine with my dog.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018
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So are you arguing for or against the police/government exclusively having all the guns. ? https://t.co/jXAzR84qEi
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 27, 2018
I'm arguing that, from a functional point of view, they already have all the guns. What's left, what the civilians are using, will not deter the military, but will continue destroying 30k lives per year. https://t.co/k71VqDigWu
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018
So … that doesn’t really answer the question. Since the police already have all the guns, why not just hand over all of them? We’re really not sure where this is headed.
This makes no sense. https://t.co/yaHb65H6vF
— Anthony Afterwit (@laterwit) March 27, 2018
I know these individual words, but the way they’re put together is all wrong. https://t.co/4S6qogJ9Ky
— Grand Moff Snarkin' (@MadcapMcQ) March 27, 2018
Why would a SWAT team be surrounding my home? https://t.co/nE8w9IJYYt
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 27, 2018
Why would a SWAT team surround my home, I am law abiding? Or is this when the fascists decide to take our guns? https://t.co/NaK4uAGSFO
— Bill Ferris (@cwferris) March 27, 2018
Well @michaelianblack that sounds like one hell of a good argument for citizens to have even greater firepower
Thanks for reminding us https://t.co/bCL1oSYluT
— Harry M Knight (@HarryMKnight) March 27, 2018
I just want to know what he's doing to that poor dog to make the SWAT team respond. ?? https://t.co/NcLPFMuFOj
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) March 27, 2018
Who is this guy? https://t.co/GkTnTwZvul
— DaveinTexas (@DaveinTexas) March 27, 2018
He really thinks he's come up with something snappy with this whole "owning a gun makes you a slave master."
Truth is his dealer gave him some new shit he's not handling well. ? https://t.co/G1iKTKR7p5
— Judson McCulloch (@JudsonMcCulloch) March 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheOpulentAmish/status/978463564221399041
Wait, there’s more; this time, it’s a follow-up to his idea of citizens forming a contract with armed police/military for security.
Every time you pay your taxes, you sign. You could make the argument, as some have, that forced tax collection is slavery, and you may have a point. But, by paying your taxes, you are contracting with the government to provide gov't goods and services, including security. https://t.co/QJf6mCFDjI
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018
Hey, it’s author and anarchist Dan Arel, who thinks we practically live in North Korea anyway.
https://twitter.com/danarel/status/978469489120485377
Hi Dan, well aware. Also aware that a suspect attempting to shoot a policeman never ends well for the suspect. Fix the judicial system, regulate guns, decriminalize many,
minor offenses, create opportunity. https://t.co/CuXUXlNr0o— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018
There’s Black’s plan as we see it so far: repeal the Second Amendment, confiscate the public’s firearms, fix the judicial system, decriminalize minor offenses and create opportunity. Straightforward from here.
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UNHINGED: Michael Ian Black's latest anti-gun rant is an absolute TRAIN WRECK https://t.co/JVsHE73Fi1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 26, 2018
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