I'm suggesting words to pacify the credulous away from extremism. Meanwhile, you're suggesting amassing weapons to counter the insidious agenda I apparently hav

I'm suggesting words to pacify the credulous away from extremism. Meanwhile, you're suggesting amassing weapons to counter the insidious agenda I apparently have behind my words. And yet I'm making you nervous? Anyway, if it's true that you're tribeless, then you're on my side of the line. You're a humanist. Maybe a humanist with some bizarre ideas about weapons and human nature, and maybe a humanist who's flirting with favoring abstractions over actual human lives, but a humanist nevertheless. On the other side of the line is nativism and xenophobia and fundamentalism and Grand Solutions -- the things that lead to genocide. Those are the ideologies I suggest we squash. If you wouldn't, then you're consistent, but you're unwise. When a wave of extremism rises, you either join in, you flee, or you get summarily executed. Your guns won't save you. You have to stop the wave from rising in the first place.