Does Right To Own Guns Trump Right To Live?

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8. I think lumping all gun rights defenders together is inaccurate

One can reasonably assume that all gun owners support gun rights to one degree or another, thus all gun owners are "gun rights defenders". And I don't think they all say or believe that their right to own guns trumps your right to live your life. It's the NRA contingent that are the nuts, not all gun owners. And whether one likes it or not, under the Constitution, owning a gun is a right. Hunting or target shooting flows from that Constitutional right.

Nor are all gun owners crazy or hoarding or addicted or bound to violence and fear. That's just hyperbole.

I live in a hunting culture. I know and have known, people who hunt for food. Some were back to the landers who lived a subsistence life largely by choice, like the guy I knew who lived in a log cabin he'd built with no power tools, chinked with moss and mud. Some people I know only target shoot. One is a nationally ranked, one time top silhouette shooter.

And sadly, I don't believe humans are at all good at living in peace with one another. History is pretty damn clear about that.

None of this is to say that I don't support stronger gun control laws, though I don't think they're likely anytime soon.

I also want to point out that beliefs are largely a personal matter. It doesn't really work to try and dictate which beliefs are true or false.