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Where Does My Right to Live Safely Fit in Gun Rights?
Submitted by:
David Williamson
Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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When will legislators on the state and national level stop catering to gun lobbies and do something to make all Americans safer? Everyone should realize we have a Second Amendment that allows people to own guns and that right is not going to be taken away. But where does that amendment stop and my right to live safely begin? I live in Beaverdale, which most people would consider a good and safe neighborhood, but in the last month there have been three homicides within 1 ½ miles of my home.
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netsyscon
(5/16/2017)
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| Let's say that guns are gone. Do you REALLY think that the absense of a gun is going to stop a criminal. England thought so, and home invasions climbed 800%. Wake up, get rid of the drugs. Guns are here to stay. |
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dasing
(5/16/2017)
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| What better reason to have LAW-ABIDING people armed! If criminals are on the rise where you live, DEFEND YOURSELFE! |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(5/16/2017)
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The author labors under a fundamental misconception.
According to our founding document, our government is formed to secure the blessings of liberty for the people. The first right listed in that document is life. Among other things, it protects our right to live by two primary means:
1) Maintaining the public order
2) Securing the individual liberty to defend one's own life
It is not constitutionally empowered to clamp down on liberty to guarantee personal safety. That is the antithesis of what American First Principles establish.
Get over that idea. It is definitively un-American. |
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