Posted by
perseveringjayhawker on Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:56:43 PM
Sir Winston Churchill once stated, “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” And so it seems to be in my home state. We got our conceal and carry law….but not really. Liberals are psychotic, so I am not sure it is even really a good use of my time to point out the error of their insane thinking….but I can’t help it.
Arguments against conceal and carry laws are generally founded on the assumption that guns and those who would carry them are evil, deadly accidents waiting to happen. If guns were not inanimate objects, completely incapable of doing harm apart from the person possessing them, and if owning and carrying firearms were not a right expressly protected in the Bill of Rights, then one could understand the need to restrict gun access and possession at all costs. However, since a gun is only as dangerous as the person carrying it, those assumptions are based in hyperbole and unfounded fear.
These arguments hinge on the very scientific idea of “what if". Should the potential for causing harm be a valid reason to regulate a person’s activities or to remove a person’s right to ownership of certain property?
A person owning a home with stairs has the potential of becoming angry and pushing another down the stairs. Using this potential harm reasoning, persons owning homes with staircases could be looked upon as having suspect motives simply because they have stairs in their home. Basing our laws on the possibility of potential harm we could then reason that all homes with stairs should be confiscated and torn down. What about the more obvious example of the use of motor vehicles. Anyone driving a car has the potential for purposefully running over someone. Should cars, then, be deemed as evil or be banned because of their possible misuse?
This faulty logic, while seeming absurd when applied to other scenarios, is precisely the fallacious rhetoric used by anti-gun advocates. The difference is simply one of degree not of principle. It fails to acknowledge the rights of the individual regardless of the possibility of his future misuse of those rights.
No matter how illogical and wrong opposition to Second Amendment Rights may be, there are still people who feel uncomfortable at the thought of those they don’t know walking around with guns. One wonders how they feel about the criminals and thugs they don’t know who are walking around with guns? Not to worry, I am sure the criminals of Kansas will surely prove polite and heed the No Guns Allowed sign some businesses will choose to post.