With all of Kevin's recent (and excellent!) focus on how well founded the the right of arms is on a utilitarian basis, I should like to remind folks that the right of arms is supported by four distinct pillars, all of which are well founded and factually based:
*The utilitarian pillar, which Kevin describes in such detail: that arms in the hands of the people are on the balance an overall benefit, and strongly so at that. (In many ways, it's our weakest argument, it's durable, but not a first order eternal truth and could theoretically change with circumstance)
*The moral pillar: that the right of arms flows directly and immediately from the eternal truth of our inalienable right of self defense and self determination.
* The legal pillar: For whatever flaws you care to mention about our Founders, they did get many things right, and they understood that the closer our core laws were aligned with axiomatic truths, the more durable the thing they built would be. In their wisdom, they directly and inextricably embedded personal rkba into our legal core.
* The historical pillar: Although public comprehension and rhetoric has ebbed and flowed, the simple reality is that we have always been an armed, and free civil society.
Deloge
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