to which view do you subscribe.....Hegel or Thoreau?
Or, I can answer for you.
Can’t answer a simple question or have already forgotten it?
Try and find where I said that. And, your attempt at segueing away from shootings involving black yoofs to 'violent crime' isn't going well. See, most of us know that when it comes to crimes they aren't reported much, if at all, in Hood Rat game preserves, for one, and for another, changing the subject is conceding the point re firearms.
My comment wasn’t you specifically

just as your comment was directed at a “they” and “them”.
The topic isn’t about race why are you making it about race?
Now that we have agreed that you are a coward, I'll answer for you.
1.Reliable Democrat voters have been trained never to question their masters, the elites.
I am perfectly willing to prove that you accept their orders without either hesitation or understanding....kind of like a trained seal.
2. Declining to answer whether you ascribe to collectivism or individualism, in effect, answered....you are a totalitarian: Hegel, Marx, the Left is your only religion.
3. Guns are not the problem.....folks like you are: you support the party that wished to drive religion and morality out of the public arena.
Your statement:
In the 1990s with a handgun ban in effect, Wash DC had the highest murder rate in Western Civilization, ….and now you can own guns legally, and the homicide rate has declined.
My question in response to it:
And what else changed in that time period?'
Do you read English?
"And what else changed in that time period?'"
The inordinate increase in power by an unAmerican political philosophy.
1. Let me review the view set forth in the OP.....
....it is not weapons of any sort.
It is the plummeting view of the value of human life that began with Rousseau, Hegel and Marx.
2. Mull this quote over:
Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of
obeying without protest”
That is the view of every one of these political stances:
Communism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism.
3. Seen even more darkly here:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
4. My claim is that the American view, here, would result in a very different society, one that takes lives far less frequently:
In Thoreau’s
On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”
Let's prove it together: to which view do you subscribe.....Hegel or Thoreau?
BTW...I read more than one language....but the key word is 'read.'
That describes only one of us.