…pistols hold a lot more potential for injury than any public good…
Owning a firearm isn’t a public good, it’s an individual right. It’s fine to debate to what extent firearms result in more suicides/homicides/crime than they do the prevention thereof, but in the end I just don’t care. My right to own a firearm was bestowed upon me by God, and codified in the Constitution, public good be damned.
Well said workinwif, and let me add that should someone else’s misuse of a Creator-endowed right should lead to one or a million “personal tragedies,” that doesn’t change my deal with my Creator. I still have that right. I’ll endorse its removal from the offender: that’s as far as I go.
I don’t measure my goodwill toward fellowmen by how many endowments I’m willing to amputate, off myself or anyone else.
December 23rd, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Owning a firearm isn’t a public good, it’s an individual right. It’s fine to debate to what extent firearms result in more suicides/homicides/crime than they do the prevention thereof, but in the end I just don’t care. My right to own a firearm was bestowed upon me by God, and codified in the Constitution, public good be damned.
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for the link.
I don’t understand why his son, who didn’t use a gun to commit suicide, but used one to commit a few felonies, justifies me losing my rights.
I guess that’s why I’m not an “academic.”
December 23rd, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Well said workinwif, and let me add that should someone else’s misuse of a Creator-endowed right should lead to one or a million “personal tragedies,” that doesn’t change my deal with my Creator. I still have that right. I’ll endorse its removal from the offender: that’s as far as I go.
I don’t measure my goodwill toward fellowmen by how many endowments I’m willing to amputate, off myself or anyone else.