Obama to gun owners — I’m not looking to disarm you

[Igel]

1. Ask any privacy supporter exactly why they want ISIS supporters to have a right

to encrypted phones and secure communications."

Ask any property owner exactly why they want ISIS supporters to be able to own property instead of having it confiscated upon suspicion of wrong-thinking.

Ask any free speech advocate exactly why they want the KKK to be able to have free speech and right to assembly, instead of limiting speech and forbidding groups to gather without formal government permission.

And so it goes. I personally don't own a fire arm. My brother does. But his ownership and exercise of the right should be defended, just like mine to freedom of religion and others' to freedom of association or speech. If we can't defend rights of those we don't like because of altruism or principle, view it selfishly: by asking that others' rights be restricted, we're asking for our own to be rescinded or to yield to dictatorship.