[Lazamataz]

Begich: We cannot allow the rights of a few to override safety.

PRECISELY One-Hundred-and-Eighty-Degrees out-of-phase with the Founding Fathers:

Benjamin Franklin: "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

[JimSEA]

To most progressives there are no rights or moral certainty. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill would agree with In A Fragment on Government Bentham says ‘it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong’ and describes this as a fundamental axiom. Next came Marx.