2nd Encounter of the Day.... Over guns this time

[BainsBane]

41. the rights trope is a canard

It's obvious gun owners don't care about our rights one wit. They justify prohibiting American citizens from seeking redress in court against gun manufacturers, say nothing about the gun lobby's restriction of rights to free speech, and insist their rights to stockpile weapons trumps the rest of our right to life. When one cares only about his own interests, any appeal to rights is empty. I've seen enough justification of the NRA and gun lobby stripping away rights that I now know the entire "rights" argument is pure artifice. Besides, the constitution provides for the right of government to regulate firearms. Read the Second Amendment.

I said nothing about taking away your guns. I merely said I have no desire to argue with an armed man. Self-defense begins long before any act of aggression, and common sense is key. Common sense tells me to avoid anyone with a gun. There is no proposal on the table to take away your guns. Why must you repeat paranoid, right-wing conspiracy theories? Newspapers exist so you can find out exactly what the President and Democratic Party propose in terms of gun reform. None of it involves taking away your precious guns.

I'm sorry you feel the word is such a dangerous place than an adult male can't handle himself without guns. I don't know how that can come from anything but fear. If you were not afraid, you wouldn't feel the need to "be prepared." Here I am a middle-aged woman, living in the inner city, and I get along fine equipped only with my mind.