The human right to own and to carry weapons is absolute. No one has the right, and certainly not the imaginary quality called "authority", to violate that right. Anyone who advocates violating that right, whatever weasel-words they use, is an evil monster.
Of course, that right comes with an iron-clad responsibility: you are responsible for not harming the innocent or their property.
I accept that responsibility. Even the NRA, as weak and wishy-washy as they tend to be on gun rights issues, has always emphasized that responsibility. Anti-gun bigots pretend that gun owners shirk their responsibilities. Some do, but most do not. Very few gun owners avoid the responsibility that goes along with the right to own and to carry weapons.
All anti-liberty bigots reject their own responsibility to respect the rights of others; they reject and ignore their primary human responsibility. Every single one of them, just by "virtue" of being an anti-gun bigot. So what you see on their part is projection: they imagine gun owners are as irresponsible and slimy as they understand themselves to be. They simply can't imagine others are better people than they are, so they assume the worst. It's because they are the worst.
As a gun owner, you don't have the responsibility to surrender your rights just because some evil loser murdered people. You don't have the responsibility to act as though anti-gun bigots, or their demands, are reasonable. You don't have the responsibility to obey counterfeit "laws". You have the responsibility to not harm the innocent. I know you are already living up to your responsibility.
Well stated, Kent.
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