Today at the gun shop:

[Josh]

There are bad people who want to do bad things. The only thing that stops them is punishment, confinement, and execution.

[temporal1]

There are bad people who want to do bad things. The only thing that stops them is punishment, confinement, and execution.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
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i appreciate written contracts, the core value is to protect both/all parties.
however, it’s known, a handshake between two respectable parties is as good as, or better than, a written contract.

because, as Plato observed, “people will find a way around.”

For years in the U.S., guns were present, visible, children+teens were taught gun safety mostly by their fathers before locks and gun cabinets, and associated laws. Gun practice and safety were taught in public schools, not unlike swimming+water safety.

What fathers?? Where?

For years no one foresaw the U.S. looking longingly at impoverished countries for moral leadership.
Amazing what bad politics can achieve in one lifetime.