Submitted by Allan from Fallbrook on December 26, 2007 – 10:14pm.
marion: So let me see if I have this straight. First off, you are opposed to letting people have too much power, but are completely comfortable dictating what should or should not happen, depending on your particular views on the subject.
Allan, There are things that the majority don’t deem “right” and we have laws against certain things. Yes, I am for rights of children. No question. Most Americans would see something wrong in the idea of people smoking marijuana/using drugs, that is why it is illegal.
Second, you are advocating an IQ test for gun ownership? How about an IQ test for the right to vote? Or an IQ test to have a child (you seem pretty concerned about children’s rights)?
No comparison. A gun is a dangerous weapon. The pull of that trigger means an imminent threat of death. Whoever is at the other end of that barrel is in immediate danger, AND whatever other innocent victims are in the area at that time.
You have indeed made your views on guns strongly felt. Those views, combined with more than a whiff of authoritarianism, make it abundantly clear that you are less concerned with representative democracy, and more concerned with “what is right”.
I would say that representative democracy isn’t in favor of drugs and any one being able to get guns, that’s why it’s not that way today.
