Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: If a CCW applicant has to take classes and pass tests... [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)On a certain level, I can agree with that. But, as individuals, we are part of the general public, and as such we have rights. Call them societal rights, if you like. They come with the social contract inherent in our decision to live together in communities. Public safety is a group right, and it depends on a certain concession of individual rights in favor of the public good.
If you want a libertarian society, where individual rights trump group rights, then I wish you luck. For, in essence, that would be anarchy, where the extreme right meets the extreme left.
For a few thousand years now, humans have decided to try and live together in groups. Every time a group is formed, it creates rules that are integral and necessary for the group's survival. Those rules, inevitably involve the sacrifice of hithertofore individual rights. We call that civilization. Before we had these groups, each individual walked around with a club, ready to clobber any other being he encountered. You live in a society that is gradually returning to that state. I wish you well.