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Originally Posted by knox
I think democracy is supposed to be something like, you can have your own individual rights AS LONG as you're not taking those rights away from someone.
Otherwise I could be throwing horse shit on people's houses and claiming it to be my individual right to self expression. Nah, carrying gun endangers other people's rights to live.
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the US was not founded for "democracy."
It was founded as a Representative Republic.
throwing horse shit CAN BE designated your right to self expression (like if you are throwing horse shit at the Mayor's house), but there are consequences.
using a gun is a right in USA. and there are consequences. people do go to jail for mis-use of guns all the time, or taking them to places forbidden by law (schools, churches, government buildings, hospitals etc)
owning a gun does not take away or infringe on anyone's rights.
There is no right to always be free of danger
there is no right to be free of offensive things/words/thoughts/people
there is no right to a life without deadly weapons around you. (for anything is a deadly weapon if used by someone with mad ninja skillz such as myself)