What if killing someone with a gun made that person happy?
Would that not contradict life, liberty, and happiness?
I forget the word or phrase (and I'm not looking for it after 65 hours of teaching social studies and book work this week.
) but the government does summarize that we have these rights so long as they don't infringe on those same rights of others.
And I do know "property" is not mentioned in the final draft of the Declaration of Ind.
Thomas Jefferson borrowed oringally "life, liberty, and property" from John Locke. It was even in the declaration up until the final draft when it was removed in favor of a more emotionally charged statement - happiness".
A lot of people believe democracy was this wonderful thing born in America. It most definatly was not - it was born in europe time and time again. This time Americans such as Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc studied european philosophy in europe and brought it back here to write.
But enough of that lol.
Let me ask this question and I would like an honest answer, although I probably know it.
Is there a difference between the government becomming a dictatorship and taking away guns AND the magority of the people through representation legally creates a law to ban guns?
One last point on Fab's post.
The U.S. could of went in and totally wiped the N. Viet. off the surface of this earth but they didn't do it wholeheartedly.
Also, if we are afraid of a corrupt government - what is to stop them from using nukes on the uprisers if they form in a common area?
That's what the president of Iraq did. People attempted to overthrow the legitament (questionable I understand - but nevertheless legal) leader of the country and that got them killed in MASS numbers.