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Quote by: Winter wind  But there are real lives at stake. The governments first priority should be first and foremost to serve the people. When the people are being killed by guns, it is the responsibility of the government to act to end this somehow. Protecting rights is only a means to serving the people. But you have to weight the costs of deaths with the cost of having to trust government, which doesn't come easily, especially not to a country that rose to existence in the fight against a overly powerful government.
I think you have a point with the tyrannical government argument, and yet the political culture of America is one of rights and freedoms, much more so then most modern democracies where the political culture is of equality. Neither is better then the other, but in a climate of such a fierce defense of freedoms, don't you trust the people to nip tyranny in the bud?
It's a subjective, but it asks a question more then gives an answer. |
Its useless to point this out. The answer they give is simply that the US wasn't founded on the concept of everyones best interest.
They don't really care how many people die or suffer as long as the personal liberties of every individual is protected by a very limited state government. Because the founding fathers said so, so it must be.