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HuffPo Blogger: Using Guns in Self-Defense Is Unjust, Ought to Be Illegal
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Blogger Justin Curmi actually begins with a fairly conservative view of the Second Amendment, saying, “There is no doubt that people do have the right to carry and have a stockpile of guns (“the right of the people to keep and bear arms”) and a state has the right to organize a well-regulated Militia.” But, despite having the right to have arms, he goes on to say they shouldn’t have the right to use them in self-defense.
“The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial,” he argues. “Therefore, using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.” |
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jac
(4/29/2016)
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PO S liberal. By his logic, it is better for the miscreant to be tried for murder than for you to shoot him in defense of your life. |
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There are other things so clearly out of the power of Congress, that the bare recital of them is sufficient, I mean the "...rights of bearing arms for defence, or for killing game..." These things seem to have been inserted among their objections, merely to induce the ignorant to believe that Congress would have a power over such objects and to infer from their being refused a place in the Constitution, their intention to exercise that power to the oppression of the people. —ALEXANDER WHITE (1787) |
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