[extropy-chat] Guns

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Tue Dec 2 06:04:55 UTC 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: "Dirk Bruere" <dirk at neopax.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Guns


>
> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> >
> > The faith I am referring to is the *belief* that society should have
> > no say in the legitimacy of your position.
>
> Ah, well, on that, society does have a say, and more than 3/4 of the US
> population supports an individual right to keep and bear arms. 39
> states have laws guaranteeing a right-to-carry-concealed, most of which
> were passed in the last decade, a decade in which the US has seen crime
> drop by half, a phenomenon seen in no other industrialized nation,
> where no other industrialized nation has as gun laws as free as ours.
> Society has spoken, in support of my position.

But I thought you believed in 'inalienable' rights?
Or is gun ownership not one of them?

Dirk

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