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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1315191" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>You stated in a previous post that local communities should be able to "make their own choices" as to whether guns are legal or not.</p><p></p><p>What if I have lived in that community all my life and all of a sudden a voting majority decides to ban guns? Are you saying I should either turn my guns in or move? Or are you saying that the law should only apply to those who voluntarily obey it?</p><p></p><p>A law is, by definition, an infringement of personal liberty for the public good. As you stated earlier, my right to swing my fist ends where your face begins and I'm OK with that. I just want to make sure we don't start passing laws that ban making a fist in the first place, or ban writing about making a fist, or drawing pictures of a fist. The "public good" can very quickly degenerate into a "nanny state" that is every bit as harmful as a place where the fists swing freely.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is that the devil is in the details. What constitutes a "community" and what power should that "community" have to pass laws that may infringe upon the <strong>fundamental rights of others?</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1315191, member: 14668"] You stated in a previous post that local communities should be able to "make their own choices" as to whether guns are legal or not. What if I have lived in that community all my life and all of a sudden a voting majority decides to ban guns? Are you saying I should either turn my guns in or move? Or are you saying that the law should only apply to those who voluntarily obey it? A law is, by definition, an infringement of personal liberty for the public good. As you stated earlier, my right to swing my fist ends where your face begins and I'm OK with that. I just want to make sure we don't start passing laws that ban making a fist in the first place, or ban writing about making a fist, or drawing pictures of a fist. The "public good" can very quickly degenerate into a "nanny state" that is every bit as harmful as a place where the fists swing freely. The bottom line is that the devil is in the details. What constitutes a "community" and what power should that "community" have to pass laws that may infringe upon the [B]fundamental rights of others?[/B] [/QUOTE]
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