[Dead Corpse]

It's a dodge... children have those Rights at birth. They cannot fully advocate for those rights until they are in possession of their fully developed faculties. Until such an "age of adulthood", the parents protects that child's Rights.

It's pretty much how we came up with the whole concept of "age of majority". It only pertains to legal protection and has nothing to do with the argument. It's a red herring.

[SoCal Pubbie]

More tastefully put than I chose to express it, but the idea that kids can exercise all the rights of adults, as adults, is crazy on its face, imho.

[robertpaulsen]

A child has a God-given inalienable right to life. No one, not even their parents, can take that away, either before or after they are in possession of their fully developed faculties.

The same would be true for any other God-given inalienable right. If you insist that the right to keep and bear arms is a God-given inalienable right, then children also possess it.

[El Gato]

. It's a red herring.

A very old and smelly one at that.