Amused; Moonie, what if a majority of these citizens decided the best course of action to stop crime was to end free speech, or freedom of movement, or freedom of assembly?
M: Let's use our heads? How could you stop gun violence by trying to end free speech or freedom of movement or assembly? They didn't do that did they, so while your what ifs are nice, they are imaginary and are never going to happen. It you are surrounded by gun violence the natural target is the guns. Talking moving or holding hands doesn't kill people.
A: What if they decided the best course of action was to put the minorities in ghettos and wall them off, or limit their rights of movement?
M: Right, lock yourself in a prison full of guns. Like folk are that crazy. Please, use your head. Your hypothetical are ridiculous.
A: Wait, is that wrong?
Of course it is.
Why?
Because the majority CANNOT vote away the RIGHTS of the minority. That is why our Constitution and Bill of Rights exists, Moonie. That is why we are a Constitutional republic and NOT a pure democracy.
M: Oh God...........what's the fucking point. You are a person of theories, you live at the top of your head. You live in a delusion.
Of course the majority can take away your rights. They just took the right to marry away from gays in California. Get Fucking real. When the majority amends the Constitution to be a fascist state, fascism will be Constitutional.
The majority has taken the right of a minority to ban guns.
You have a right to life. You have a right to liberty. You have a right to the pursuit of happiness. You have a right to self defense. You have no right to own nuclear weapons, and only by convention do you have a right to a gun. There is nothing fundamental about it. It is a religion, a custom, a habit, but it has no intellectual force.
Folk can take your life if you kill, they can take your liberty if you steal. They can silence you in a court of law. They can fine you for what you say.
A: The right to keep and bear arms is a RIGHT. It cannot be voted away by the majority. It can only be reversed by constitutional amendment and a national super-majority. Period.
M: Exactly, it is a created unnatural right, a fiction, an imposition by a majority on a minority, a judgment by folk who needed guns to protect their liberty in the past and now enforced on folk who are being killed by what once was a protection. Law and the constitution are an approximation of justice and times and circumstances change. Unfortunately guns have become a fetish of a bunch of religious gun freaks whose self centered interests are killing folk in the cities. May I say fuck you and your rights. Your law is fascism, a monstrosity shoved down the throats of others. So very libertarian of you.
A: In short, your argument is moot. It's bullshit. It only appeals to the ignorant folks who don't think twice about voting away the rights of the minority.
M: Sadly, you don't think once.