Do You Own a Gun?

[monster]

Guns are made to make money, just like everything else. If there were no profit in it, the only guns would be homemade ones. This may not be a terribly useful thought, but it's another tangent for those grasping at straws to keep this thread going....

here's another.

The constitution gives right to bear arms/bare arms/whatever. Would it be unconstitutional to insist that everyone had a gun? Is there a right to be unarmed? Would gun crime be reduced if everyone were armed?

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by monster

Would gun crime be reduced if everyone were armed?

Uh oh, we've already been down that bumpy, dead-end road. Or maybe it was more of a cul-de-sac, or roundabout.

[monster]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

Uh oh, we've already been down that bumpy, dead-end road. Or maybe it was more of a cul-de-sac, or roundabout.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by monster

The constitution gives right to bear arms/bare arms/whatever.

Actually, it doesn't "give" the right; it acknowledges that the right exists already, inhering in being a human.

Would it be unconstitutional to insist that everyone had a gun? Is there a right to be unarmed?

Yeah, but unarmed is also imprudent, assuming (and one is so very often safe in so assuming) the possessor is sound of mind. One can bring to mind many, well, unfortunate uses of the First Amendment right of free speech here in this Cellar -- some have shown the rest of us that they hold to beliefs that turn them into right bastards.

Would gun crime be reduced if everyone were armed?

The most careful and largest study says yes. John Lott, More Guns, Less Crime -- very illuminating.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by monster

Guns are made to make money, just like everything else. If there were no profit in it, the only guns would be homemade ones. This may not be a terribly useful thought, but it's another tangent for those grasping at straws to keep this thread going....

here's another.

The constitution gives right to bear arms/bare arms/whatever. Would it be unconstitutional to insist that everyone had a gun? Is there a right to be unarmed? Would gun crime be reduced if everyone were armed?

The Constitution doesn't "give" us any rights. It protects the rights we're born with. We have a right to defend ourselves using any weapons we choose and we have the right to choose not to own any. We do NOT have the right to disarm others or to limit which weapons they may own; nor do we have the right to use the force of government to do it for us.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Actually, it doesn't "give" the right; it acknowledges that the right exists already, inhering in being a human.

Originally Posted by monster

mybad poor wording

Originally Posted by Radar

The Constitution doesn't "give" us any rights. It protects the rights we're born with.