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.
"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."They're both legal activities. That's the analogy.
"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."
When did this turn into a discussion about robertpaulsen? What's with the personal attack? Where do you see me forcing anything on anybody?
"Your concept of "rights" would be alien to the founding fathers."
MY concept of rights? Tell me about MY concept of rights. I haven't said a damn thing about MY concept of rights, so how would you know?
What I said is that I've seen what happens when people misuse rights. Others write laws that end up controlling that behavior.