DonS
2012-01-03 16:52:43
One point about guns and freedom I would like to bring up is this: I think that the RIGHT to own guns has a significant impact on freedom, aside from their actual use resisting tyranny, etc.
An armed population accepts responsibility for its own defense, and is intrinsically more moral in my view than an unarmed population that is fully dependent upon the government. Dependence destroys freedom, and the right to keep and bear arms is a powerful right that has implication that go beyond the martial potential of the weapons, but helps maintain the moral behaviour of the people.
