Communitarians, Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the Case for Firearms Prohibition

http://i2i.org/SuptDocs/Crime/commun1.htm ^ | 3/14/03 | Maryland Law Review

[Noumenon]

Visualize the heads of politicians who sponsor this sort of thing exploding like watermelons as votes are registerd from the rooftops...

[merak]

This thing is basically simple. The question to these cretins is, are you willing to die trying to deprive me of the 2'nd ammendment? Because, I AM willing to die defending it.

[Noumenon]

I'm appalled

And well you should be. But this is what passes for thinking on the other 'side'. No amount of slaughter and human suffering, no atrocity too great to stand in the way of the sick utopian dreams these monsters harbor. They are convinced that they are right, and it is an article of faith that they are meant to rule - and by any means necessary.

Each and every one of them deserves to die.

[Skibane]

It is high time for the federal government to outlaw gun possession by anyone except the police and the military, and to round up all firearms currently in private hands.

That very first sentence says it all: A state where only the police and military have guns is, by definition, a police state.

[Bedford Forrest]

Molon Labe.

[Ken H]

Moreover, Domestic Disarmament offers an entirely new vantage point from which to view the firearms issue--from the communitarian context, in which the individual's responsibilities to society are seen as more important than the unlimited exercise of rights.

Communitarian-- have to keep that term in mind.

[tacticalogic]

Communitarians! (spit!)

[PatrioticAmerican]

No need to read this. We all know what happens when people are unarmed and their goobermint is armed.

No need to read this. We all know why these people want us unarmed, and it ain't for our safety.

No need to read this. We know what idiots these "junk scientists" liberals are.

[PatrioticAmerican]

The root of their "ban guns" campaign is using government guns to enforce the no gun policy. That, alone, shoots their idea full of holes.

"We hate guns, so we will use guns to disarm the people."

[coloradan]

Read more of the article ... the author is on our side.

[Frohickey]

Read the entire article folks. Its not a gun-grabber screed, but an article by pro-2A authors to debunk the gun-grabber's screed.

Here is the .pdf version of the same thing. Its actually a good read, chockful of calm rational debunking of the 'disarmament' arguments. Besides, one look at the author, Dave Kopel, tells me that this is NOT a gun-grabber's screed. Add Don Kates, Eugene Volokh, and others to the people involved in this article, its a virtual plethora of pro-2A scholars and researchers.

[DManA]

Not going to bother to read it. Do they at least admit they need to amend the Constitution first?

[Uncle Miltie]

"It is high time for the federal government to outlaw gun possession by anyone except the police and the military, and to round up all firearms currently in private hands."

It's not every day you hear someone call for civil war.

[coloradan]

The article is written by friendlies, rebutting the claims of the gun banners. And well.

[Black Agnes]

Actually, the first sentence sounds exactly like a former supervisor of mine. He calmly, rationally, and sanely insisted that the best thing for society was to do a house to house search for those nasty guns & get rid of them once and for all...

OH, and he's Jewish. I can't understand the willful ignoring of history. He lost grandparents in the Holocaust for heavens sake. I'd have tactical nukes in my basement if I were Jewish. 'If you come for me...we'll all go together' kind of logic.

[Teacher317]

You need to check out this thread, where Pitchfork is making a similar claim... he wants to run a "cost-benefit" analysis on our Rights to own guns, to see if it's worth it.

[First_Salute]

Excellent list of Free Republic pages maintained by freeper, ~Kim4VRWC's~:

Updated Gun Control and related links here (#9)

[Freedom2specul8]

Hi there! I think some of the links have stopped working..which is a shame..

thanks for the ping!

[tpaine]

"Moreover, Domestic Disarmament offers an entirely new vantage point from which to view the firearms issue--from the communitarian context, in which the individual's responsibilities to society are seen as more important than the unlimited exercise of rights."


Not so. Basically the same ol' argument that been going on for the last 100 years.
-JG-

Exactly, and its been going on here at FR for over five years.
-- Closet 'communitarians' abound on this site, - those who argue that some rights must be limited for just ~their~ single issue, of course.
- The fact is, - that once the prohibition camel has its nose in the tent on one issue, the game is up for grabs on the rest.

[spodefly]

BTTT