Narrow code-warring aside, Garzik is not ideologically aligned Team Cypherpunk. He's retweeting hand-waving "
Why won't Someone do Something" posts in favor of grabbing guns.
Not a True Libertarian confirmed.
While I'm also "not a true Libertarian" myself, Jeff is obviously a little bit confused about which country he lives in and it's culture. Other gun cultures do not have the same problems that the USA has, and so their problem isn't as simple as adding further firearms controls; other countries with fewer controls have less (indeed, zero) mass shooting incidents.
Almost as bad as the hostility to liberty in Garzik's retweet was its atrocious misuse of statistics. It seems he shares the congenital predilection of Gavinistas for misleading the public.
The USA is an enormous multicultural society, with vastly differing levels of appreciation for cultural innovations like impulse control and delayed gratification. My extended family has always had and always will have beaucoup guns, but (outside of game warden, etc. LEO duties) never used them against anything larger than water moccasins. Somehow, despite near-constant fussing and fighting, we manage to not shoot each other. I think teaching our kids '
stick-and-stones' instead of '
physically attack if offended' may have something to do with that.
It takes an especially hypocritical kind of coward to demand/imply such guns should be taken, but that Someone Else do it (and Faster, Please!)
There is a parallel to XT here. Everyone expected everyone else to go first, so nothing happened. It's easy to suggest Someone Else incur the risks of being the first to defect from Core/grab guns. Actually doing so is another matter entirely, as Galvin and Heam have recently discovered.
