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Originally Posted by Danzig188
but somer, i could use the same logic to attack the right to free speech. i mean, what use is hate speech? shoudldn't the govt regulate hate speech--after all, it might inflame someone to do something illegal...
owning a gun is a right. it is regulated in that a felon can no longer own one. much like a convicted felon has no right to freedom--he must spend time in jail.
but gun control affects those of us who are law abiding. after all, a law breaker isn't going to suddenly feel compunction about breaking a gun law--laws against thievery don't stop him from robbing someone. you think he would hesitate over a gun law?
and you might not want to own an automatic, but someone else may. just like i may not feel the need to march in a protest, while someone else does.
i read once about a country on the african continent who banned guns. they still had a high murder rate--everyone offed each other with machetes.
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That's why I said that government can't solve this problem! Hate speech is regulated to a point as if it leads directly to violence, it is excluded. Holmes' example of yelling fire in a crowded theater etc. In the end, it really doesn't matter if you own a gun (or I get my rocket launcher)...what matters is what we do with them...what we feel we have the right to do! Government will never take the place of personal responsibility...I'm not an existentialist but Sartre was right that we are each responsible for our actions (called free will)...still some common sense controls are not the end of freedom...unless you like the idea of me having that rocket launcher!