Reply #40: Feelings and comforts, however desireable, are not "rights"...

[SteveM]

It is very unfortunate that the rights guaranteed us by the Constitution have been equated to the feelings and comforts of Americans. This is, of course, a very poor point of departure from which to govern.

I am curious: would you be comforted if no one openly-carrying a gun? Would you be comforted if people carry concealed? In the latter instance, how would you know in order to judge your "comfort" level?

We live in a culture which is nearly obsessed with our own feelings, fears, comforts. It's tedious to me, but whatever the layers of narcissism which envelop us, we do not have "right" to be free of a fear, nor are we guaranteed to have some kind of temporal comfort.