Michael Ian Black still working on that idea of citizens being enslaved by gun owners

As Twitchy reported earlier, actor and comedian Michael Ian Black wasn’t just reiterating on Sunday his belief that the Second Amendment should be repealed and replaced; he was also working on some sort of explanation of how private gun ownership creates slaves of those who are unarmed.

Just to follow up on this; when some of the population is armed with guns, they have control over rest of population. We willingly create a contract with armed police/military for security. We enter no such contract with civilians.

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 25, 2018

Those civilians, through the threat or exercise of life-ending power, have control over unarmed civilians. That is a form of slavery.

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 25, 2018

That was Sunday afternoon and, believe it or not, he was still going at it Monday night, though how well he clarified his thoughts is up for debate.

I’m saying an armed population keeps itself in a kind of self-induced slavery: the enslavement is metaphoric, not literal, and is an extension of a society enthralled with its own capacity to dominate and destroy. https://t.co/RteeL0ngKn

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018

So there’s self-induced, metaphoric slavery, and then there’s the slavery of a SWAT team surrounding your home.

When the SWAT team surrounds your defending your home with your AK, you are just as much their slave as I am defending mine with my dog.

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018

Every time you pay your taxes, you sign. You could make the argument, as some have, that forced tax collection is slavery, and you may have a point. But, by paying your taxes, you are contracting with the government to provide gov't goods and services, including security. https://t.co/QJf6mCFDjI

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018

Hey, it’s author and anarchist Dan Arel, who thinks we practically live in North Korea anyway.

https://twitter.com/danarel/status/978469489120485377

Hi Dan, well aware. Also aware that a suspect attempting to shoot a policeman never ends well for the suspect. Fix the judicial system, regulate guns, decriminalize many,
minor offenses, create opportunity. https://t.co/CuXUXlNr0o

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 27, 2018

There’s Black’s plan as we see it so far: repeal the Second Amendment, confiscate the public’s firearms, fix the judicial system, decriminalize minor offenses and create opportunity. Straightforward from here.

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