the point is that there is something driving gun owners ( many of them) that has yet to be addressed. It is almost as though when a gun owner is confronted by ANY legislation, ANY limit, any percieved threat, he sees it as a threat to his individuality, his manhood, his personality.
His/Her Rights??
Really? yet many have no qualms about "infringing" on the ability of a woman to obtain an abortion. Those who balk at a waiting period of several days in order to purchase a firearm have no problem imposing just such a waiting period on a woman's right to an abortion. There are those who are considerably dismayed when any test or "background check" is proposed in order to obtain a firearm but enthusiastically impose requirements of vaginal ultrasound and other invasive procedures if a woman wants to abort.
Rights seem to be valuable to some and not so much to others. Liberty itself is a strangely viewed thing. Folks will claim patriotically and vehimantly that their most valuable right is that of liberty, hte ability for one to come and go as one pleases. It is the pincacle of what a human holds himself to be - at liberty, and yet when that singularly valuable right is removed from a criminal, all those who hold liberty as the most dear suddenly asert that the removal of that most profoundly valued right is empty of meaning and a prisoner is not really being punished at all when that right is removed from him.
THose who hold the 2nd as most sacred see the right to ownership as equal in importance yet they don't see one's right to ownership of one's own body as being of mcuh value at all when it comes to another's right to that same thing.
No, it goes deeper than simply a right when it comes to guns.
