Gun Control & RKBA

In another thread/topic you resisted the idea of segregating criminals from others in society over possibly rehabilitating them. I infer that you think people have some basic rights including life and liberty that make respecting those rights a primary purpose of government where ever possible as much as possible.

In the US our penal system apparently lags behind some in the world in its ability to rehabilitate criminals. As I've said before, I can accept that the system needs work prioritizing a budget to fix broken people but, until they are fixed, not segregating them is just asking for trouble.




Now on to the other matter. Self-defense is absolutely a right. Whatever adjective you want to add (human right, natural right... yes, all of the above) works for me. So along with respecting the general rights of those we've charged, tried and convicted to be fixed, the rest of us have the right to defend ourselves. Confiscating the most efficacious tool for that purpose is just as wrong as locking up the all of convicts and throwing away the key.


Trying to "confiscating them all" will:
- not work
- create millions more criminals that, as you note, our system already doesn't deal with correctly
- motivate some folks to liquidate their investments unwisely

If my suggestion to sentence violent offenders to life w/o parole is unreasonable in the short run, your idea of "confiscating them all" is completely absurd and counterproductive.