Why Good People Should Be Armed!

[Medius]

[The Comrade]

it's pretty much an established fact that the further you can disassociate yourself from the implications of your actions, you will be more likely to carry them out. some people have a built in blocker for that, and they're sociopaths. other people have to rely on physically being separated from their actions. 40 feet with a gun is pretty sufficient for people on the edge.

[The Dharma Bum]

[Darkhorse]

[Medius]

[eynon81]

[exploited]

[The Comrade]

http://tva.sagepub.com/content/5/1/21.short

if you dissociate from your surroundings, or from your actions, what would normally set off red flags doesn't. you can, in a way, voluntarily dissociate yourself from your actions. i used the gun as an example but there are others.

and there are degrees of dissociation. i'm not saying having a gun means you view people as pixels or something. but in more extremes cases caused by trauma, you have PTSD sufferers beating their spouses or killing them, in less severe, more voluntary cases, you have a neighborhood watch individual killing a kid he would likely have not confronted had he not been armed.

i mean, even if you disagree with dissociative behvior, you can't deny there's a worrisome segment of gun owners who think gun=guaranteed protection, as opposed to merely being an opportunity of protection. that alone is dissociative thinking.

[The Dharma Bum]

[JDHURF]