Current Events: Gun Control
In the past couple months there have been debates in the United States regarding gun control of particular automatic weapons. Especially after cases such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, President Obama and his supporters have stated that limits should be made on the possession of weaponry in the United States.
Taoists overall advocate a peaceful lifestyle of "going with the flow" of life. Aggression, such as in the form of a gun, is frowned upon. A particular section of the Tao Te Jing addresses this issue:
Taoists overall advocate a peaceful lifestyle of "going with the flow" of life. Aggression, such as in the form of a gun, is frowned upon. A particular section of the Tao Te Jing addresses this issue:
Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore they who have the Dao do not like to employ them.
-- Chapter 31 of Tao Te Jing
Though there be armor and weaponry, they shall not be deployed.
-- Chapter 80 of Tao Te Jing