No, you don't quite get it, rights have nothing to do with the government or laws or authority. They are individual, and only subject to us. I don't think the government has any place in our rights except to protect them. The purpose of the court is to punish those who infringe upon them, and in grey areas decide what infringement is.
Here is the confusion to me...in the above comment you clearly state the Government role is to protect your rights, and the courts to punish and decide what should be the law. Yet it seems your position is that the courts should not do so, and the Government should not protect rights...unless they happen to be "Your" rights........what about "Mine"?
Did anti abortion laws infringe on first amendments, the courts said yes, so they were deemed unconstitutional, so thus is their job.
Wait...so the courts are doing their job when deciding what freedoms we are allowed in society?...hmm, interesting. May want to review your previous comments on this.
Does my owning of an object infringe on anybody's rights? I would like to know how. If that object sitting locked up in my safe unloaded infringes on the rights of anybody I would destroy it myself. Please make that case I am very interested in that, like I said I am ready to die to protect rights.
I am not being sarcastic, I am intersected to know.
The obvious answer is no...as you are well aware. Though you did not lay claim to the sarcastic nature of the question...it is there. As there is currently no move to "Take 'yer Guns", and is unlikely to ever be, the question seems rather pointless. If however, the Government decides to prohibit or regulate further sales of something deemed detrimental to societal health...I must accept it to live within the society I have chosen.
Do you have a problem with the FDA removing a dangerous drug from the market?
The idea of banning certain firearms that fit certain criteria is stating that the possession of such a weapon infringes on someone else's rights. Now I am the type of person that believes I must defend everybody's rights as though they are my own. Now that being said, I would be remiss if things I was doing were in fact infringing on others rights.
Thing is, the Government and justice system defines those rights...not you. Just try to claim a right to go into Macys with an AR-15 on your shoulder while drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels and smoking a doobie. You will very quickly notice the limitations placed on your perceived rights over those given to the lady at the cosmetics counter.
But courts infringing upon my rights as a reaction to a crime that I cannot agree with. As I see that it is indeed tyranny.
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