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To: Mulder

You're not the steward of your own basic rights?

How incredibly dense of you to believe that.


161 posted on 02/10/2006 3:52:54 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Mulder; tpaine; Mini-14; Travis McGee; Squantos; Noumenon; Lurker
Here's how I shake out on this issue. I really believe it is straight forward, even if my explanation is a little lengthy.

I've known and conversed with each of you many times over the years. I'd say we all agree on about 95+% of issues, and are very well and friendly disposed towards one another...including our views of the unalienable right to defend ones self and therefore to be bear arms.

However, if I let each of you know, straight up, before hand, that when coming to my house for dinner I didn't want you to bring a loaded gun into my house, I believe each of you would honor that request...or, you would politiely tell me that you weren't coming.

If I extended that to a get together, or work activity out in my barn...I believe each of you would still honor that request, or politely tell me you preferred not to come.

I am not saying I would ask you that...but I know that if I did, you would honor my right to be, in essence, the King, of my own home and property.

Now, if you came armed anyway, if I had asked you not to bring firearms and saw you with one, why then I would politely ask you to either take the firearm somewhere off my property, or ask you to leave. On the other hand, if, in the unlikely event, someone accosted you and/or me while we were there, why then I would be glad you had it and we could use both your firearm and mine to defend ourselves. At that point, I would not make an issue of you having had it.

Without that happening, if you chose to bring it, then you would also have to be responsible for that act and my potentially asking you, as the property owner to either take it away, or leave.

Note...in none of this have I violated your right to bear amrs. I have asked ou as the owner of the property in question to not bring them...you are still free to choose either not to come, to come without them, or, as I have said, to bring them anyway and then be responsible for that decision.

I believe this covers the bases...the same principle must apply to someone's property, whether in their building or on the premises. Otherwise, property rights become meaningless. Our founders fought against the government forcing them to house armed men on their property..the kings redcoats. To compel me, with the force of government, to accept onto my property aremd indivduals against my will (outside of a time of insurrection or war), is to, in essence, do the same thing as the King did with his redcoatsd IMHO, and I would be against it.

That's my take and opinion on the matter.

174 posted on 02/10/2006 4:18:24 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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