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PostSubject: Gun-Ownership is Self-Ownership   Gun-Ownership is Self-Ownership Icon_minitimeMon Apr 01, 2019 5:03 pm
In the wake of the New Zealand shooting, familiar rhetoric has resurfaced on both sides of the gun debate. With the left’s shift from “common sense gun laws” to praise for New Zealand’s abrupt resolution to ban all “military-style semi-automatic weapons” it’s clear their advocacy was always about a gun ban.

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One refrain I find particularly irritating is the claim that, “Americans care more about guns than they do the lives of X.” The ridiculous implication here is that every gun owner is a potential mass shooter, because no gun owner is a risk to X who is not intent on killing X. Leaving aside that obvious response to that idiotic assertion, I stopped for a moment to consider another aspect of the statement. Why do Americans, or more specifically I, as a libertarian, care about guns?

Aside from the obvious, that guns are really cool, and fun to shoot, the most basic use for a firearm is the defense of one’s property and their life. Individuals have a right to protect their belongings, and the ownership of their own lives is chief among them.

The right to protect property is inherent in the right to any and all property. If you deny the right to ensure that no one takes your property without your consent, then you are denying ownership of your property.

Stemming from that logic, if you have a right to protect your property and life, then you too are the only one with a right to destroy that property unchallenged. So, to deny the right to protect property is to cede the right of property ownership/destruction to another.

By relinquishing the right to bear arms to the state citizens are implicitly granting ownership rights, to the state, of their lives and property, and implicitly the right to destroy that property or life. If property and life protection rights are exclusive to the state then it follows that the state has exclusive ownership rights of all property and people under its protection.

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