Because we aren't. The right to defend oneself is a natural right based on our existence as rational creatures. Similarly, natural law tells us of the innate evil of homosexuality, adultery and all the rest of the crimes you fellas want legal. Why can't the libertines see that no significant number of people has ever wanted to live in the fantasy land society they wish to create?
Last thoguht - when we legalise drugs, what will we then do about the plague of driving under the influence of these substances that will result?
Got a cite for that? Homosexualilty exists in the animal kingdom, in nature. Is nature in violation of natural law?
Why can't the libertines see that no significant number of people has ever wanted to live in the fantasy land society they wish to create?
Significant number of people is not the determinant between right and wrong. And who are you to tell someone else what kind of society they should wish to create?
Last thoguht - when we legalise drugs, what will we then do about the plague of driving under the influence of these substances that will result?
Driving drunk is far more dangerous than driving stoned.