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In reply to the discussion: Concealed gun owner shoots own buttocks and wounds children at Dallas Walmart [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Saying "it's nobody's business" is the definition of a sociopath. Do you not see that?
We are not all "rugged individualists" living in goddamned caves or tents in the desert. We live in communities, and in order for those communities to be healthy, safe, prosperous places, we must be concerned with the rights and safety of all people - not merely ourselves.
Is it "nobody's business" if I know I am carrying a very contageous disease - like a horrific flu - into a public space? It's certainly my right to go into The Piggly Wiggly with a raging influenza and a high fever and the ability to infect everyone shopping near me. There's not really any law against it.
But it would take a pretty selfish, sociopathic fucker to do so. Or a dumbass.
Same with guns. You can't have it both ways - enjoy the benefits of society but give not a crap about anyone's rights but your own. The minute you bring that weapon into a public space where others may be harmed, that gun becomes the business of every person there.
No way around that.
You haven't answered me above, so I can only assume that you are doing a little soul searching and you've realized that only a really selfish jerk would say "It's nobody's business" in this situation.
Those injured little kids would beg to differ with your assessment of just whose business it is