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Untangling the Gun Lobby’s Web of Self-Defense and Human Rights
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Today, alongside this rights-based narrative, a parallel narrative exists that is perpetuated by the U.S. gun industry as part of a multifaceted effort to increase gun sales. This so-called gun-rights narrative manipulates the ideals of human rights to establish not only an inalienable right to life but also an unfettered right to armed self-defense to protect oneself from any perceived threat of harm. This narrative hinges on fear and the need to defend oneself and loved ones from unknown but ever-present threats through whatever means necessary and without regard to the rights of others. It is grounded by the false claim that the most effective means of self-preservation involves using a firearm. |
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RichardJCoon
(8/13/2020)
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| This piece is wrong in so many ways. They didn't even try and hide behind statistics, they just lied. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(8/13/2020)
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| There is nothing to 'untangle.' The "gun lobby" position is not a "web," it is linear, straightforward and unassailable. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(8/13/2020)
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| There is nothing to 'untangle.' The "gun lobby" position is not a "web," it is linear, straightforward and unassailable. |
| Comment by:
lucky5eddie
(8/13/2020)
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| What a load of unmitigated leftist ****! |
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| The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)] |
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