From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 16:20:38 MDT
> (Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>):
>
> > You have the right to keep and bear arms -- that doesn't give you
> > the right to come onto *my* property with such. Should the
> > government
> > completely remove restrictions on weapons on planes, I for one would
> > be calling the airlines wanting to know which prohibit such weapons
> > from being carried by individuals.
>
> What gives you the right to constrain my liberties in a manner that not
> even the federal government is permitted to do? If you don't trust a
> fellow law abiding citizen on your property unrestrained in their
> liberties, then you are not any sort of libertarian.
Quite the opposite, Mike--a libertarian is one who understands that
/everyone/ has /more/ power than the government to decide what happens
in his own life and on his own property. You would be welcome in my
house with a gun, because I know you and trust you. But I might not
make the same concession to everyone. And there's no law against being
a psycic or a homeopath who makes their living preying on the gullible,
but I would not welcome a person like that in my home, and I would
think less of, say, newspapers or radio stations that allowed them to
advertise in their media.
I wouldn't have any problem with an airline or a building that didn't
allow weapons. They aren't "constraining my liberty" at all--they are
merely exercising theirs. I have no right to enter their building, or
fly on their airline. They can choose to give or deny me that privilege
just as I can choose whom to allow in my home. They have the right to
impose whatever restrictions they want with their property, just as I
do. It's only the government who doesn't have that right.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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