Instead Of Gun Fights, Maybe The Answer Lies In Another Kind Of Fight

By Tom Knighton

While mass shootings take up a lot of time on the American airwaves and internet, the majority of murders in this country are far more personal. They’re the result of someone having an issue with another, and it ends up being settled at the point of a gun. It’s senseless and stupid, but not new.

This is especially true when you look at gangs, a source of a lot of murders in this country.

You see, gangs are what some might call an “honor culture.” What I mean by that is that they care about their “status” and demand respect. It’s their “honor.” When someone disrespects them, they have to either respond or lose status. What happens much of the time is that gangs attempt to take the other person’s life. Even if unsuccessful, they maintain their status as someone who won’t take being disrespected. Killing innocent bystanders, however, doesn’t negatively impact them in any way, thus creating no incentive to keep their violence restrained.

What if, however, there were another way for such “honor” to be satisfied without risking the lives of the innocent who may be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Well, it sounds like there …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms