Here's the bit about rights: People do have the right to feel safe. It's part and parcel of liberty. Folks can feel safe all day and I won't complain. What they do not have is the right to make me responsible for their mental state and require that I change my behavior if I am otherwise behaving responsibly and doing them no harm.
What Rusty Gunner said above. I'm not entirely comfortable with the "Where is that 'right to feel safe' written in the constitution?" I get where Herschel Smith is coming from, given that "the right to feel safe" as formulated here is mere sophistry intended to infringe enumerated natural rights, but the reasoning is dangerous.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The Ninth and the Second are what individual liberty is all about. We don't have to play the sophist's game to preserve the other most important amendment (in this I follow Randy Barnett) to the Constitution.
I made some headway educating a NYCer on the RKBA when I pointed out that this taxi driver, that deli guy, this other dude et. cetera were almost certainly carrying, (or they were really dumb)
We've got the right to carry whatever we want and they can't say squat. However there is a matter of civility, compassion, civics, and just not scaring the sheeple. I'd rather educate people on gun rights with a tshirt but.... Maybe the open carriers are giving the wake up people need. Idk other things are more important to worry about.
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Here's the bit about rights: People do have the right to feel safe. It's part and parcel of liberty. Folks can feel safe all day and I won't complain. What they do not have is the right to make me responsible for their mental state and require that I change my behavior if I am otherwise behaving responsibly and doing them no harm.
What Rusty Gunner said above. I'm not entirely comfortable with the "Where is that 'right to feel safe' written in the constitution?" I get where Herschel Smith is coming from, given that "the right to feel safe" as formulated here is mere sophistry intended to infringe enumerated natural rights, but the reasoning is dangerous.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The Ninth and the Second are what individual liberty is all about. We don't have to play the sophist's game to preserve the other most important amendment (in this I follow Randy Barnett) to the Constitution.
I made some headway educating a NYCer
on the RKBA when I pointed out that
this taxi driver, that deli guy, this
other dude et. cetera were almost
certainly carrying, (or they were
really dumb)
We've got the right to carry whatever we want and they can't say squat. However there is a matter of civility, compassion, civics, and just not scaring the sheeple. I'd rather educate people on gun rights with a tshirt but.... Maybe the open carriers are giving the wake up people need. Idk other things are more important to worry about.
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