Enron: So my gun ownership “actually reduces the liberty of everyone else in the real world?”. How is that, exactly?
You’ve now tossed out two fairly hyperbolic postings, but haven’t offered up what your solution is, which underscores my point that this discussion is largely driven by emotion and not facts.
Do you favor a government-led comprehensive gun ban to “protect” your life and liberty, or do you have some other plan.
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Shouldn’t freedom and liberty in a civilized society include the ability of me and my family to go to a school/movie/shopping mall without worrying about a psycho obtaining a poorly controlled weapon that can kill crowds in seconds? Should your definition of a free society include metal detectors at every public place? Or a free and liberal society is the one where everyone including children is forced to buy and carry a firearm because everyone else does.
Or freedom and liberty are only reserved for people who are preparing for an apocalypse that probabaly will never come (and even if it did, they will find out that what they have is useless anyway.)
We do have now a concrete example of the freedom of the boy’s mother to own assault rifles for some zombie apocalypse actually resulting into deaths of many kids. So I am not sure how you call this hypothetical. It is real.
I don’t know about others, but I would rather give up on the society that prepares for apocalypse in order to live in a normal society. And I am not afraid to state it.
