“From a left-socialist perspective, then, the concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other... “regulations” are limitations on a right, and rights, though never absolute, are to be valued.
...Those who hold that gun ownership is a fundamental political right correctly perceive, and are right to resist, the intended threat of its incremental elimination in gun-control laws that will have little to no practical effect, other than to demand more acts of compliance and submission to the armed authority of the state...
When you ban guns, you are not just eliminating a right, you are creating a criminal offense – in fact a whole set of new crimes...
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. It will not be a more pacific, but a more authoritarian society, one in which the whole panoply of armed police we’ve already come to accept as part of the social landscape will be even more ubiquitous, while citizens’ compliance and submission will be more thoroughly assured. As Patrick Higgins puts it: “The formula for gun control seems pretty obvious to me. Less [sic] guns for the people who are most likely to need them, more guns for cops and soldiers and those sympathetic to them.”
...Rights empower. Power is dangerous. Guns—certainly the personal firearms that are in question—carry a limited but real measure of inherent power, and therefore danger, that everyone should respect. Indeed, it is because guns are dangerous that the right to own one is important...”
Beyond even the Constitution, ownership and possession of arms, as well as active training and drilling with arms by ordinary citizens, is a necessary and fundamental element of inalienable human rights, from both philosophical and practical viewpoints.
Classical liberals, and even far leftists (when divorced from their current politically-expedient B.A.M.N. power-grabbing Trump-hatred hysteria) agree.
Those who want to abridge or revoke that can leave the country, and the planet, by helicopter.
“From a left-socialist perspective, then, the concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other... “regulations” are limitations on a right, and rights, though never absolute, are to be valued.
...Those who hold that gun ownership is a fundamental political right correctly perceive, and are right to resist, the intended threat of its incremental elimination in gun-control laws that will have little to no practical effect, other than to demand more acts of compliance and submission to the armed authority of the state...
When you ban guns, you are not just eliminating a right, you are creating a criminal offense – in fact a whole set of new crimes...
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. It will not be a more pacific, but a more authoritarian society, one in which the whole panoply of armed police we’ve already come to accept as part of the social landscape will be even more ubiquitous, while citizens’ compliance and submission will be more thoroughly assured. As Patrick Higgins puts it: “The formula for gun control seems pretty obvious to me. Less [sic] guns for the people who are most likely to need them, more guns for cops and soldiers and those sympathetic to them.”
...Rights empower. Power is dangerous. Guns—certainly the personal firearms that are in question—carry a limited but real measure of inherent power, and therefore danger, that everyone should respect. Indeed, it is because guns are dangerous that the right to own one is important...”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/12/the-rifle-on-the-wall-a-left-argument-for-gun-rights/
Gun ownership is in the Constitution. Those who want to abridge that or revoke that need to leave the country. That includes S0r0s and Bl00mberg.
Beyond even the Constitution, ownership and possession of arms, as well as active training and drilling with arms by ordinary citizens, is a necessary and fundamental element of inalienable human rights, from both philosophical and practical viewpoints.
Classical liberals, and even far leftists (when divorced from their current politically-expedient B.A.M.N. power-grabbing Trump-hatred hysteria) agree.
Those who want to abridge or revoke that can leave the country, and the planet, by helicopter.