"Your fear and distrust are what politicians use to install more control over their subjects, all in the name of the public good, of course."I see. The laws we now have against swearing in public in front of children came about because of my "fear and distrust". Not because some yahoo declared he had the constitutional "right" to say "F$%^ the Yankees" at a baseball game in front of my 8-year-old.
"Moreover, your statements betray your utter distrust of your fellow citizens."
More like disgust than distrust. Directed at those who lack the common sense and the common courtesy to honor the "rights" of others.
You continue to make the negative comparison of someone safely carrying a firearm with someone who is "cursing in front of children" and the like. This is a false analogy. An accurate comparison would be if those firearms were being discharged in a reckless manner, which they are not.
Your self-righteous disgust is merely your prejudice seeking justification, and no more. And you apparently hold so deep a bias that you refuse to recognize it as such.
Your idea of "courtesy" is yours and yours alone, and you apparently think that if you offer enough self-righteous indignation about it, that somehow will make you right. In reality, it is only your fear and superego attempting to vainly force itself upon others.
Freedom does not mean that you will not be occasionally made uncomfortable, or never see things you don't like -- in fact, it almost guarantees the opposite. But your path is far, far worse. Your concept of "rights" would be alien to the founding fathers.
