If people were good, and justice impartial, then gun control would work. But that’s not the case.

I have been on a campus during one fatal school shooting, been mugged at knife point by people of various ethnicities, been punched in the face by skinheads across the political spectrum, been bodily threatened by drunks citywide, had a large office chair thrown at me, and once, when I was 19, I had a profoundly unpleasant experience with a couple of truckers outside Chicago that wasn’t exactly rape but wasn’t a lot of laughs, either.

Basically, if it walks on two legs and approximates human speech, I fear and potentially loathe it. While not a misanthrope — and maintaining some vague belief in a larger divine mystery — I do not believe people are inherently good. I believe that anyone,... Read More