Guns don’t have rights
I submit to you a request; that we remove the phrase “gun rights” from our vocabulary and replace it with the more human, and more accurate, “gun-owner rights.”
11 Responses to “Guns don’t have rights”
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March 11th, 2010 at 10:41 am
No.
Property doesn’t have rights either, but it’s property rights, not property owner rights, or property user rights.
Do we really want to make the focus “Right to own a firearm”? Or should we leave the name inclusive, covering use as well?
March 11th, 2010 at 11:05 am
No. I don’t care about ‘gun rights’. I care very much about HUMAN rights, including my right to defend my life against some mutant.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
How about civil rights. That’s what we are talking about.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
All rights are human rights. Some rights are civil rights. Gun Rights are even narrower.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Gun owner rights…and adding two syllables helps how?
Is there any ambiguity as to what someone means by “gun rights”? I think not. Someone’s being overly pedantic.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
The phrase “Gun Owner rights” implies that you have additional rights as a gun owner.
Since anyone theoretically can be a gun owner, I’m cool with calling them either Human Rights or Civil Rights.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
+1 for Civil rights. Unfortunately, this ship seems to have already sailed, like the “is torture ok?” debate, and “healthcare reform”.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Do gun renters have the same rights gun owners do?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I really like torture and health care reform in the same sentence. They go so well together.
March 11th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I like to say the right of the people to acquire, keep and carry the means to self-defense is a basic human right for which we all have Constitutional protection in the Bill of Rights and the State Constitutions:
“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty TO BE AT ALL TIMES ARMED and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.” –Thomas Jefferson
March 13th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Do abortions have rights?