marion: My advocating a legalization of marijuana makes me a pothead? Wow, you are all for being open-minded and encouraging discourse, aren’t you? Thank goodness you’re not judgmental or anything.
I can boil all of this down quite simply: It comes to down to a matter of choice, and accepting responsibility for that choice. If I choose to own a gun, then I accept the responsibility for that choice. If I choose to own a car, and then drink and drive, I accept responsibility there as well.
What you are saying is this: If I don’t like your choices, then I am reserving the right to deprive you of them. Well, Marion, that isn’t your right, and that sort of thinking leads to authoritarianism and despotism, the very things that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted to avoid.
Whatever I do in the privacy of my own home is my choice. So long as it does not hurt another person, or infringe upon their rights, that is. Beyond that, you should mind your own business and, more importantly, make your own choices and leave me to mine.
Borat: Good call on Switzerland. Israel is also armed to the teeth, with a very low crime rate. Well, aside from the Palestinian suicide bombers.
